BTW I mentioned the permanent AC from a shield even when not being used in one of my recent bug reports to Larian, and was told by Larian support that this was intended to be changed for the full release.

I know infinite switching would still make it possible to get the bonus if that’s not changed too, but at least I’d have the option to not switch and choose to replicate 5e behaviour if I wanted so I’d see this as an improvement if still not ideal.


"You may call it 'nonsense' if you like, but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"