Armor Trick, Reflexive Mobility clarification


Rules Questions


Armor Trick

The Light Armor trick, Reflexive Mobility, looks interesting, especially for a ranged based build that may have gotten Combat Reflexes through bonus feat (or selected it for some reason). But I'm not sure if it works the way I think it does.

Reflexive Mobility wrote:
You have learned to sacrifice an opportunity to wound an opponent in order to avoid being wounded yourself. When you provoke an attack of opportunity from an opponent, you can expend one of your own potential attacks of opportunity for that round to double the bonus to your AC that you gain from the Mobility feat against that attack. This benefit applies to all attacks of opportunity that you provoke with the same action. If you are unable to take any more attacks of opportunity this turn, you cannot use this ability.

The issue I'm having is that while this feat doesn't say you have to provoke because of movement (indicating you can use it on other provokes such as attacking with a bow) but it also specifies the use of the bonus from mobility which is only a movement based provocation.

Mobility wrote:
You get a +4 dodge bonus to Armor Class against attacks of opportunity caused when you move out of or within a threatened area.

So can this bonus from mobility be applied to any AoO that you may provoke or does it just apply to the movement based ones that mobility covers?

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There are multiple ways to provoke for movement (like tiny moving into a space of opponent provokes two ways but only one AoO), so you still need to provoke from a movement AoO to add mobility bonus.


James Risner wrote:
There are multiple ways to provoke for movement (like tiny moving into a space of opponent provokes two ways but only one AoO)...

I'm not sure what this has to do with the question.

James Risner wrote:
...so you still need to provoke from a movement AoO to add mobility bonus.
Relevant text wrote:
When you provoke an attack of opportunity from an opponent, you can expend one of your own potential attacks of opportunity for that round to double the bonus to your AC that you gain from the Mobility feat against that attack.

My question is do I have to be moving out of or into a threatened area (the requirement to add the +4 from mobility) in order to use the Reflexive Mobility portion of the Armor Trick feat. The feat in question (Armor Trick) does not specify that I have to but it does say I add the bonus from mobility.

So am I using mobility in this case and doubling the bonus from it or can it be applied to and AoO that the character provokes?


You can use the ability whenever, but you only get a benefit when Mobility would apply.

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Michael Grate wrote:
do I have to be moving out of or into a threatened area (the requirement to add the +4 from mobility) in order to use the Reflexive Mobility portion of the Armor Trick feat.

Correct.

It says double the bonus to your AC that you gain from the Mobility, so even if you did gain it the only AoO you can take are movement based.


James Risner wrote:
Michael Grate wrote:
do I have to be moving out of or into a threatened area (the requirement to add the +4 from mobility) in order to use the Reflexive Mobility portion of the Armor Trick feat.

Correct.

It says double the bonus to your AC that you gain from the Mobility, so even if you did gain it the only AoO you can take are movement based.

Thank you for the clarification


The only way around that limitation: Reactive Mobility.

If you have Reactive Mobility and Reflexive, then you could get double that dodge with all types of AoO I think.

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