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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 4574225" data-attributes="member: 58197">Huh.  I never saw it that way.  My view is that (at high levels, anyway) clerics dominate the conventional battlefield, whereas wizards bypass the battlefield entirely.  What with teleportation, illusion magic, and a bewildering array of utility spells, a creative 3.X wizard can often arrange to get the job done without having to fight.  And if they do get into a fight, they have a wide assortment of ways to mess up enemies without ever touching their hit points (mind control, death spells, enervation, et cetera).  Meanwhile, AC is the least of their defenses.Of course, I also would not be inclined to play a 3.5 wizard who traded any significant spell slots for armor... but that's mostly because a wizard who's depending on AC to protect him from enemies is probably dead already.  What happened to your overland flight, stoneskin, displacement, mirror image, superior resistance, and protection from energy spells?(Okay, that's a slightly extreme list.  But really, most things that target your AC can be foiled by a simple mirror image, re-cast as necessary.  Throw in displacement if you're seriously worried.)</blockquote>