Eaglesoul (spell): +2 sacred bonus
Strict RAW, you could argue the spell Greater Stunning Barrier gives an untyped bonus to AC, although it's clearly intended to be a deflection bonus.
If your GM gives you major artifacts and you are willing to take your chances on having your soul cast into darkness, there is the Shadowstaff.
There are more defenses than just AC.
Ring of Blinking
Blur
Fog Cloud
Invisibility
Here I am wondering why your Kensai (who adds both Dex and Int to AC and Touch AC, and should be Dex based) is having an issue with Touch AC.
Nothing you do to raise your touch AC will matter against a dedicated Gunslinger.
Of course, you can use stuff like Displacement, so that's not the hugest deal.
Nothing you do to raise your touch AC will matter against a dedicated Gunslinger.
Of course, you can use stuff like Displacement, so that's not the hugest deal.
If you have Greater Invisibility why not add Fly and Dimension Door for greater mobility, make them search for you. What about Stoneskin?
Displacement is irrelevant to a gunslinger.Nothing you do to raise your touch AC will matter against a dedicated Gunslinger.
Of course, you can use stuff like Displacement, so that's not the hugest deal.
Correction: Displacement (and invisibility) is irrelevant to a Gunslinger with a Seeking weapon.
Correction: Displacement (and invisibility) is irrelevant to a Gunslinger with a Seeking weapon.Displacement is irrelevant to a gunslinger.Nothing you do to raise your touch AC will matter against a dedicated Gunslinger.
Of course, you can use stuff like Displacement, so that's not the hugest deal.
Arrows mistakenly shot into an empty space, for example, do not veer and hit invisible enemies, even if they are nearby.
No, they still have to target your square. If you're invisible and you move then they could target the wrong square and miss.
Correction: Displacement (and invisibility) is irrelevant to a Gunslinger with a Seeking weapon.Displacement is irrelevant to a gunslinger.Nothing you do to raise your touch AC will matter against a dedicated Gunslinger.
Of course, you can use stuff like Displacement, so that's not the hugest deal.
The wielder still has to aim the weapon at the right square. Arrows mistakenly shot into an empty space, for example, do not veer and hit invisible enemies, even if they are nearby.
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Correction: Displacement (and invisibility) is irrelevant to a Gunslinger with a Seeking weapon.Displacement is irrelevant to a gunslinger.Nothing you do to raise your touch AC will matter against a dedicated Gunslinger.
Of course, you can use stuff like Displacement, so that's not the hugest deal.
Arrows mistakenly shot into an empty space, for example, do not veer and hit invisible enemies, even if they are nearby.
No, they still have to target your square. If you're invisible and you move then they could target the wrong square and miss.
Assuming he beats his Perception.
Assuming he beats his Perception.Correction: Displacement (and invisibility) is irrelevant to a Gunslinger with a Seeking weapon.Displacement is irrelevant to a gunslinger.Nothing you do to raise your touch AC will matter against a dedicated Gunslinger.
Of course, you can use stuff like Displacement, so that's not the hugest deal.
Arrows mistakenly shot into an empty space, for example, do not veer and hit invisible enemies, even if they are nearby.
No, they still have to target your square. If you're invisible and you move then they could target the wrong square and miss.
Of course. Everything has an associated risk.
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If its gunslingers you're worried about, you can always knock bullets out of the air with deflect arrows, or dodge them with snake style. There's also an amulet of bullet protection that goes up to +5 luck bonus vs firearms.
Armor master fighter archetype gets +1/4 levels to touch ac.
Guntank gunslinger archetype gets half their armor bonus to touch vs firearms.
Found something that can help and its cheap too.
This would basically be a standard and a move action to stop a single bullet. Is it really worth it?
I suggest you keep a quickened true strike ready, and when you when initiative (which you should) either spell combat bladed dash or dimension door (with dimensional agility) and disarm the gunslinger with your quickened true strike.
The best AC against a gun is for the gun to be in your hand, not his.
Ghost Rager allows a barbarian to add their superstition bonus to their touch ac as a moral bonus. This can get pretty awesome at high levels with a human. @ lvl 20 a human barbarian with superstition and ghost rager is adding a +13 moral bonus to their touch AC...and they can punch ghosts in the face.
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Just sunder the gun.
I liked the Holy Vindicator getting his channel dice to his touch AC. Worked magnificently for my Life Oracle in Wrath of the Righteous.
Mirror Images might be nice though double barreled guns especially can blow away the images pretty quickly. I guess you could make more every round though, especially if you had the arcane to cast them with a wand (maybe built into your scabbard if the DM is cool with that?)
If you think you'll win initiative I suppose that Crane Style might be nice or useless depending on whether or not you can combine fighting defensively with spell combat (not sure if there was ever a ruling on that). Combat Expertise is another potential way to raise touch AC, and you should obviously have enough Int for it. You'll probably never get your touch AC high enough to make a Gunslinger miss you, but you might get it high enough to make him reconsider whether or not to accept penalties from stuff like Deadly Aim, TWF, and double barreled guns.
I think the idea of taking a full attack from an equal level gunslinger is a poor idea, if you can avoid it.
I like the disarm and sunder ideas upthread, that is my thinking as well.
I would add grapple to the list of ways to ruin a gunslingers day. Most gunslingers I encounter have the Musket Master archetype and using a two handed weapon in a grapple is not happening.
The common problem with all of this is that gunslingers have high cmd, sometimes very high. You are probably going to need help like some serious investment in a maneuver or good buffs.
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Snake Style doesn't quite add AC but instead allows you to use Sense Motive effectively as AC (at the cost of an immediate).
Basically reads "Shut down one Disintegrate 95% of the time".
Looking through the Magus spell list might help. I just checked Dominate Person, and it isn't on there. Doesn't Wind Wall stop bullets though?
Snake Style might help with avoiding one bullet, but high level Gunslingers tend to shoot lots of bullets. I guess if you combined it with Deflect Arrows you'd probably stop the first couple of shots though.
Fickle Winds gives a flat 30% miss chance that is neither concealment nor cover based; just make sure they can't get directly above or below you since it is cylinder-shaped.
Found something that can help and its cheap too.
Hmmm... Would your GM let you buy an adamantine one for 3600?
Be wary of anything that makes you flat-footed!
The other side of the equation is anything that lowers your opponents "to hit" roll. That's effectively the same as raising your AC.
Ditto on Snake Style. My full plate + heavy shield paladin took a dip into Master of Many Styles and picked it up. So once per round, you have an effective Touch AC of 10.5 + Sense Motive. So at level 3 with Sense Motive of +9, my Touch AC goes from 12 to 19.5 with an immediate action.
Does your heavy shield Paladin use Lay on Hands? My PC with Paladin levels ended up using a light shield so that he could do so.
No mention of cover yet? You can't shoot at what you can't... eh... shoot at.
