I was reading the sacred fist archetype and noticed that the AC bonus you get for leveling up is a deflection bonus. This seems to really penalize the sacred fist because it means that unlike the monks AC bonus it does not stack with things like protections from evil, shield of faith, or rings of protection. What where the developers thinking? It does not make sense that they are the only class in that gets a deflection bonus as a class ability. All other classes that get an AC bonus are either an untyped bonus or a dodge bonus. In either case they stack with all other bonuses.
I think this should be changed to an untyped bonus like the monk gets.
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Yeah... I agree that the growth of that Deflection bonus is both slow and redundant in a lot of ways. It goes almost without saying that someone will purchase a cheap Ring of Protection rather than wait for AC Bonus to catch up. It also stinks that most of the Warpriest/Cleric spells that boost AC end up boosting Deflection.
This book... and especially the Sacred Fist and Hunter... was SO VERY RUSHED.
Anyways, at least Mage Armor still stacks on them without a problem. I must say, Sacred Fist is what a real Monk should have been! They are my favorite so far, and I won't be playing another class for a Whiiile.
Just don't bring up the potential "Stacking" of AC Bonus from the Monk and Sacred Fist. The walls of text will crit our eyes!