Holy Vindicator Sacred Shield

[Kyra Clone #3,785]

I've searched the forums for an answer on this and have not found it yet, I've found things that are close but none that answers my specific question.

The sacred shield lasts until "struck in combat". Does the hit have to beat your AC to count as "struck"? Because armor doesn't restrict somebody's ability to physically hit you (which is why touch AC is so much lower), it just drastically reduces the chance for that hit to cause damage.

When my Cleric 7 / Holy Vindicator 1 activates sacred shield, with +2 full plate, +2 shield, and a phylactery of positive channeling, his AC will jump up to a 33. If somebody rolls to attack and has a 30 to hit him, is the Sacred Shield expended at that point, or does it stay in place until somebody gets a 33+ to hit me?

[Stemboy]

It's a successful attack that equals or exceeds your full AC, otherwise the ability would be pretty much invalidated by the first attack against you.

[Kyra Clone #3,785]

Excellent. Even with it being invalidated by the first attack, it'd still be nice enough for me to use, since my cleric doesn't get targeted all that much. But with a +6 to AC *until I get hit*, it goes up from "nice" to "Holy crap amazing".

[Game Master]

I absolutely love your username - and the avatar to go with it. Beautiful.

[Kyra Clone #3,785]

My first character in PFS is based on Kyra, as I had no idea how to play PFS and everybody needs a cleric. Since then, I've also played a lot of Kyra pregens in different games, and the joke locally is that there are hundreds or even thousands of clones of Kyra that get thawed out in the form of a pregen whenever a table of three needs a 4th and cleric.

The avatar was one that wasn't widely used (6 instead of dozens), and I figure it represents the errors in the genetic code that appear after so many thousands of clone copies.

So far I've been well pleased with it.

[Stemboy]

Funnily enough the first PFS game I ever ran had a Kyra pregen in it. She died horribly.

[GoldEdition42]

Kyra Clone #3,785 wrote:

I've searched the forums for an answer on this and have not found it yet, I've found things that are close but none that answers my specific question.

The sacred shield lasts until "struck in combat". Does the hit have to beat your AC to count as "struck"? Because armor doesn't restrict somebody's ability to physically hit you (which is why touch AC is so much lower), it just drastically reduces the chance for that hit to cause damage.

When my Cleric 7 / Holy Vindicator 1 activates sacred shield, with +2 full plate, +2 shield, and a phylactery of positive channeling, his AC will jump up to a 33. If somebody rolls to attack and has a 30 to hit him, is the Sacred Shield expended at that point, or does it stay in place until somebody gets a 33+ to hit me?

I am curious to see that build.