I can't believe they still didn't update this spell to be more worth it. They should've taken away the concentration or the material component at the very least.

There's a small buff on this spell. Resistence for any type of bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage instead of no magical. but, being honest, still not worth it. Concentration + material component still a high price to pay.

I'll be honest - I came here to see what people said about it, I don't really understand how Mage Armor is not concentration but Stoneskin & Barkskin (Although had to go make sure and apparently they did take concentration off of Barkskin - haha) does.

Also, no upcasting? 5th level - cast it on two people, ya know?

2024 PHB says this is Transmutation, not Abjuration.

Quote from FelipeS >>

There's a small buff on this spell. Resistence for any type of bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage instead of no magical. but, being honest, still not worth it. Concentration + material component still a high price to pay.

 That hardly makes a difference now that any monster with a magic weapon switches to force damage as opposed to magical b/p/s

So, they basically didn't buff it at all.

There are several of us in my campaigns that are grognard's from 1e-3e, back when this spell had hard damage immunity to a # of hits or damage reduction. Implementing such in 5e could indeed be problematic, but wanted to keep the feeling of such. So, adding a Damage Threshold of 5 at our table to make it worth it has been well-received, even when used by tougher foes.

Damage Threshold

A creature or an object that has a damage threshold has Immunity to all damage unless it takes an amount of damage from a single attack or effect equal to or greater than its damage threshold, in which case it takes that entire instance of damage. Any damage that fails to meet or exceed the damage threshold is superficial and doesn’t reduce Hit Points. For example, if an object has a damage threshold of 10, the object takes no damage if 9 damage is dealt to it, since that damage fails to exceed the threshold. If the same object is dealt 11 damage, it takes all of that damage.

Eliminate the (C)oncentration.