I've put the Elven Chain on my monk to see how it looked like and expected it would cancel unarmoured bonuses, but what happened was a mixed result. Not sure if it's a bug, it doesn't conform to how other armour works...

- Armour Class tooltip shows the following:
AC 21
14 from Armor
-4 from Unarmored Defence (?)
+5 from Dexterity
+3 from Wisdom
+1 from Cloak of Protection
+2 from Become the Bulwark (? - bracers of defence)

- Movement Speed: 14m

So I noticed some contradicting information here.

- If Elven Chain is considered armour for monk, then AC should be 20 (14 + 5 + 1), bracers of defence shouldn't give its AC bonus, and movement speed should drop to 9.

- If Elven Chain is so light as to be considered clothing and not penalize monk's unarmoured bonuses, then AC should be 25 (14 + 5 + 3 + 1 + 2)

Instead, I do get the WIS bonus to AC, bracers of defence work as if I was unarmored, movement speed is improved at 14, but there is this weird -4 penalty which tooltip says comes from unarmoured defence but I don't see how.

The description doesn't mention monk unarmoured bonuses, but it does say it feels like wearing a cloud so I guess it is considered clothing...? But the -4 is inconsistent with how unarmored defence works for other situations, did I miss a rule somewhere? Or is it a bug?

Last edited by Eileen Dallahan; 08/11/23 08:21 PM.