Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Problem with Mage Armour on my monk.

My monk has a total armour class of 20 : 10 base armour, +5 from DEX and +5 from WIS for unarmoured defense.
So, i was thinking that I could raise it to 23 with Gale casting Mage Armour on her.
When I do this, I have the icon next to her thumbnail and hovering the mouse over it, it confirms : "Base armor class 13" in the tooltip.
But in the character panel, the AC is unchanged. Still 10+5+5.

Does this look like a bug to you also ? Or am I (again) missing something.
(She is wearing, the graceful cloth, the sparkle hands and watersparkles boots and the lifebringer crown. I don't think any of these is considered armor. (If it was, I shouldn't be getting the +5 WIS bonus, right ?) So I don't see the reason for Mage armour not actually raising the base AC to 13.

Unarmoured Defence, Mage Armour, Barkskin and Draconic Resilience don't stack because they all change your base armour class. And yes it is confusing, I tried to be clever and use mage armour and defence too and then had to look into the wiki for the reason why it doesn't work. I feel the tooltip could be better.

You could ask Shadowheart for a Shield of Faith though or use the Bracers of Defence, if you want to give up the slot.

Thanks, so it would be clearer if the character panel showed something like "15 base AC from WIS + 5 from DEX". Like it is now shown the +5 from WIS defeince looks exactly like the DEX bonus.

You were too quick in reading. ^^ I feel the tooltip could be better too.