TheLoneRaven: So during all my playthroughs of the game, I've often encountered the problem that says the following:

"You have multiple items equipped or spells active that give an Armor AC Bonus and the effects will not stack"

Now I'm sure we've all encountered that problem several times in each of our own playthroughs, but to this day, I still don't understand it. I mean, I get that I have too many things on me that give me extra AC, but I wanna know what defines this limit. How do I know the limit of the AC I can get? Because what confuses me even more about this is when I give somebody a Ring Of Protection +1 and I get the message but then I give a +2 one to that same person and I still get the message but they get a +1 AC Bonus, and the same happening with a +3 ring but instead a +2 Bonus and so on.

Bookwyrm627: When calculating AC, there are several types of bonuses. For most of these bonuses, only the highest bonus applies (dodge bonuses seem to be the exception).

For example, if you are wearing a Ring of Protection +1 (deflection), Bracers of Armor +1 (armor), Amulet of Armor +1 (natural), and then you cast Mage Armor (+1 each of deflect/armor/natural/dodge) on yourself, then your AC will only go up by 1 because the items already provide bonuses of the non-dodge types provided by Mage Armor.

A longer description is here.

Sarafan: There's no limit. The only problem is that AC bonus items don't stack. If you use an item that gives +1 to AC, it'll give you +1 AC. If you use an item that gives +1 and another one that gives +3, you'll get +3 to AC. You can treat this as a nullification of the inferior item bonus.

TheLoneRaven: I can't even begin to understand how you thought I'd understand anything from this.

TheLoneRaven: I can't even begin to understand how you thought I'd understand anything from this.

Sarafan: I meant that the AC bonuses from the items doesn't stack. If you have two items that improve your AC, you'll only get a bonus from the better item. Of course there's also the case with different types of AC bonuses as pointed above.

Bookwyrm627: If you have the answer to your question, please mark the relevant post as the solution. That way, people can see the question has been answered and jump straight to the answer (though that isn't really an issue in this thread).