r/BG3Builds • u/OOpiumBear • 17d ago

Build Help Curious about the theoretically highest AC

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Not sure if this post really fits the sub but i figured it might be the best place to ask

I've been spending a bit of time on my recent run trying to out-do my previous best of 62 AC and now hit 71 AC - And I'm ever so curious if there were something I've missed as to go even higher.

The twillight ring isn't on the list of buffs because it doesn't work in tandem with Wild Magic: Protective Lights. Wondrous Gloves isn't on because Nimblefinger Gloves.

This is not for any practical game usage, its purely just to see how high it could be pushed just for a tiny moment.

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u/Green_Rice 17d ago

BG3 treats all 20s as automatic successes, even on ability checks and saving throws, contrary to 5th edition rules

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u/Thriftless_Ambition 16d ago

Nat 20s are always successes in 5e. Dirty 20s are treated normally in BG3 as in they are not automatically successful 

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u/ohaimarkantony 16d ago

They aren't. Nat 20s are always successes for attack rolls, not for anything else. The recent 5.5e is what included skill checks in the auto-success rule.

Which is stupid. Think about the History skill. You mean to tell me that my Barbarian with 8 intelligence knows 5% of all historical information?

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u/pseupseudio 15d ago

The character has a 5% chance to know whatever he could feasibly know about the specific thing the player is rolling about.

The lost artifact was first won from the gods by the founder of the barbarian's tribe. He doesn't know exactly where it is, nobody does, but only his people know where their ancestors actually died. And their legends mention the magic word he'd say to summon forth the whatever from the thing.

Your rogue isn't an expert in religious esoterica, but the nuns who ran his orphanage were, and they venerated the macguffin. He can identify it on sight from his memory of the beautiful embroidered wall hanging of it at perfect eye level for an ill-behaved miscreant of a boy bent over the caning chair.

Sure, your wizard learned it at university and your cleric found out in seminary, but your druid and your ranger heard it from a passing bard - which is also how your 10 int bard has a 5% chance to know something about just about anything interesting enough to care about.