With a +5 ring of protection and a +5 amulet of natural armor, it's 43. How do swordsages have the best AC again? A TWF warblade (with the required 19 Dexterity) wearing +5 mithral full plate and a +5 animated heavy steel shield has 33 AC. Much much easier to get your AC into the stratosphere when you can make it an opposed attack roll instead. That gives you a base AC of 31, and no light armor you wear will allow you to keep your full Dex bonus (plus you expended quite a bit of your WBL already, so let's say you save the rest for your weapon and other items).Įven if you could get the +5 NA and the +5 ring of deflection, you're still 2 behind a warblade, and 4 behind a crusader who carries a +5 tower shield instead of a +5 animated steel shield.Īnd again, Wall of Blades. That leaves about 27 Wis (16 +5 inherent+6 item). 'Course, at high levels, AC doesn't matter much.Ignoring the fact that a good chunk of swordsages go unarmed and sacrifice their light armor proficiency, let's say you manage to swing a 36 (18+2 racial+5 level+5 inherent+6 Item) Dex.

With both of those as well as light armor, it's very possible that Swordsage will end up with the best AC of the three.

And their next best stat, WIS, also gets added to their AC. Many Swordsages use Shadow Blade and Weapon Finesse, so DEX becomes their main stat, and it certainly won't cap at 19.

Good tiger claw warblade build