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Is the "fighter with high dex" melee focused or ranged (archer) focused?
A melee focused fighter may want to go with half plate. Slashing melee damage is about as common as piercing melee damage, but against NPCs/humanoid opponents slashing attacks/weapons tend to do more damage. If the expectation is that natural attacks are more common, then piercing attacks (bites, etc.) will tend to do more damage than slashing attacks (claws, etc.); in this case splint mail might be a better choice.
A ranged (archer) focused fighter should probably go with splint mail. The majority of ranged attacks will most likely be piercing damage.
I think Dragonchess Player has the best analysis here.
It's really dependent on what kind of enemies/attacks you expect to be targeted by, which can be campaign and play style dependent.
In either case, expect to have to ask your GM constantly if the attack is slashing/piercing damage, because if they're like me, they'll always forget you have any kind of resistance and won't tell you the kind of damage.
To an extent, I wish these abilities were a little easier to run, in the sense that they would provide resistance against all physical damage, but like 1 point, scaling up to 2 points. It easier to remember to apply resist all, than when you only resist some, at least to me.
Yeah without knowing a lot about the campaign, being you are melee slashing resist may be more valuable. But it might a crap shoot.
However, you could switch it up in the campaign by switching which armor you wear. You would have to pay to swap out runes, but that's not too bad.
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Either way, it's something you barely notice at high level as you go into almost every battle at full hit points, healing is powerful, and monsters do often many different types of damage. Pick one and try to remember to apply it once you can.
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Either way, it's something you barely notice at high level as you go into almost every battle at full hit points, healing is powerful, and monsters do often many different types of damage. Pick one and try to remember to apply it once you can.
Yeah, this. The bonus winds up being so minor at higher level that the main thing with it is remembering that it exists at all. VTTs that automate it help with that, but unless you're trying to optimize as much as possible, its just not a feature worth worrying about much.
Because it's so hard to predict damage type, I would prefer to use chain and reduce crits for all damage types. However, there isn't a worthwhile heavy option.
Because it's so hard to predict damage type, I would prefer to use chain and reduce crits for all damage types. However, there isn't a worthwhile heavy option.
It's a little irritating that the only options for heavy armor are composite or plate.
Medium armor has good variety, however, with skeletal (resistance to precision damage; coral armor or niyahaat) in addition to chain, composite, or plate. Or even a wooden breastplate to do retaliatory damage on a critical hit.