Originally Posted by
LordBlades
+2 AC maybe not, but getting all the weird slot weapons you can find, chaining GWM on them and getting +10-20 AC out if it has bothered some. I've seen Defending weapon brought up with 6-7 DMs. Only me and another one have allowed it as such. All the others have either banned it or imposed severe restrictions, either disallowing stacking of multiple Defending weapons, or houseruling that activating a Defending weapon counts as using the weapon and therefore attacking with any other weapon or activating multiple Defending weapons makes you incur multi-weapon fighting penalties.
I just know a lot of DMs that think what casters can do should have less limits because 'it's magic'
I do agree that for some campaigns immunity to HP damage might be a bit much, but when it isn't, it's a perfectly viable alternative to AC, 100% effective when spells are up and without scaling costs.