| rangerjeff |
I'm a sword and board fighter that uses improved shield bash, improved twf, bashing shield, etc. And I'm going for high AC.
+1 Deflection is nice, and frees up a ring slot, but I was likely going to get a +2 ring eventually... well, probably not in my PFS career. but I also wasn't likely to want 3 different rings and so need to free up a slot... but worth 2000gp anyways.
anything else I'd take for wrist slot that might make me regret getting the duelist's vambraces?
1/r reduce penalty for attacking with off hand by 2, especially nice with shield slam - this seems really powerful to me... and I assume the reduced penalty is also factored into the CMB for the free bull rush. Is this worth another 6000gp for my build? If it works like I think it does, I'd say yes. If I don't get to factor the reduced penalty to attack into the CMB of the free shield bash, then probably not quite...
| Jamie Charlan |
The deflection's going to get overwritten by your ring of protection or any other number of sources of +1 or higher deflection. The -2 removal on one attack is really nice, and really what you're trying to get this for.
Gloves of Dueling are where it's at but that's a hand slot, so there's no issue there. Vambraces of Defense are kinda nice too, but overall this is a solid, inexpensive choice of magic item.