bracers of armor , what are they good for ?

[opiscoward]

they add nothing as far as i can see.

[Swordman_Red]

Absolutely nothing!
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On a serious note: for casters, or any other characters, that DON'T wear armor. It provides bonus of the same type, so if you wear armor, you will only get either armor's bonus, or bracer's, whichever is higher.

[Vhira]

+8 armor bracers are best in slot for dexterity based characters pumping AC with something like 1 level of monk.

I think the highest AC characters don't use armor, since armor caps your dexterity bonus to AC. Also, there are monk robes that provide +5 dodge bonus to AC as well.

Early game, +4 or +5 bracers of armor will save you a spell slot, since they replace Mage Armor.

[=[NK]= Col. Jack O'Neil]

You're equipping them to someone wearing armour or has mage armour casted on them, so are not seeing the benefit.

[Remove skull merchant]

Originally posted by Vhira:

+8 armor bracers are best in slot for dexterity based characters pumping AC with something like 1 level of monk.

I think the highest AC characters don't use armor, since armor caps your dexterity bonus to AC. Also, there are monk robes that provide +5 dodge bonus to AC as well.

Early game, +4 or +5 bracers of armor will save you a spell slot, since they replace Mage Armor.

It depends, late game Dex tanks are the best but early game Valerie with a +1 and full plate will be hard to beat. Yes, max dex is limited by armor but there are other sources than Dex.

[Drake]

Originally posted by opiscoward:

they add nothing as far as i can see.

Bonus to AC of the same kind don't stack. Bracers of armor are armor AC. So that means that you can't use them with an armor. It's for chars that don't use armors in chest piece (like mages and monks).

[Azure]

Armour bonus for non armour wearing characters. the +one to three are pretty average but after that gets better and better with each number