Umm, Adamantine Scale Mail is medium armour lol. Just proving OP's point.
As I was referring to the Adamantine Heavy armour, imagine I wrote Splint instead of Scale
Taking 0 damage from "most attacks" doesn't matter. Who cares? Enemies that deal low enough damage that you can reduce it to 0 also have extremely low attack rolls.
So most enemies in the game have extremely low attack rolls? Then why even both with AC in the first place? If they have low attack rolls, they won't be hitting you even with mediocre AC...
High AC is only relevant for high attack rolls. Alternatively, you can have moderate AC (Making all these low attack rolls still fail) and when they DO hit they deal 0.
And damage reduction is not gonna save you in those cases, where a reduction of 5 damage is meaningless because attacks are dealing 20 damage at minimum in the first place.
Yes it is, because of how damage reduction works in combination with resistances.
A hit that does 20 damage? Reduced to 10 by resistance. Reduced by 5 from damage reduction. So now you're taking 5 damage from that attack.
Sure, taking 75% less damage from these big attacks won't save you /s
Meanwhile, these same Honour mode encounters get high attack rolls with extra modifiers so your 20+ AC still isn't making you avoid 95% of those attacks (Which also highlights the limitation of AC. No matter how high your AC is you cannot get more than 95% avoidance because nat 20 always hits. Meanwhile with DR you literally CAN get 100% damage reduced making things deal literally 0 damage to you)
Not to mention spells which don't always target AC. But still get reduced by Heavy Armour's DR. Your 24 AC medium armour won't do a single thing against an attack that doesn't target your AC.
Finally, Warding Bond generally isn't worth casting either. So many better things for a cleric to do with a level 2 spell slot.
Warding Bond is one of Clerics most OP spells lmao. It's one of the 3 spells Clerics get that actually make Cleric worth using in this game. 50% reduced damage AND +1 on all Saves AND +1 to AC... For a single level 2 spell slot?
Also, I'll add that Heavy Armour Mastery is not a good feat.
Which is why you think Heavy Armour is bad.
Heavy Armour shines when you stack DR along with resistances because you reduce so much damage that it competes with fully invested Dex + Yuan-ti massive AC and in many cases outperforms it (Such as against high attack rolling enemies or literally any build that can't stack Dex out the wazoo)
