Hi Gazza and welcome to the board. im sure youll find lots of useful tips and tricks here and if you come up with some make sure and share them
That was explained very well by Sunder. One thing to keep in mind is while a mage will have a base armour class of 10 with no dextarity bonuses a mage with a dextarity of 18 will have a base armour class of 6.... so bracers of Defense ac8 wouldnt do him any good. only the bracers with an ac of 3 or 4 would be beneficial..... so if you had a mage with low dex. hed be better off wearing gauntlets of dextarity (raising his dex to 18) than he would wearing bracers of defense ac7.
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Take it easy mate
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