PFS: First Paladin Purchases

[Erath]

Newbie PFS player here.

Have a THF Human Paladin, 1st level, having completed two scenarios. My first purchase was to sell my Greatsword to for a Masterwork one, fill out my inventory with some cold iron/silver, ranged weapons, and spend my first two pp on the obligatory wand of CLW.

After my second scenario, I now have the princely sum of 535 gold and 2pp, and I think my next purchases should be armor related.

Now, I'm assuming I should be going for full plate, and systematically advancing that and upgrading that? But, unsurprisingly I feel a bit squishy in my AC +5 Scale Mail. Should I save up for two more scenarios and drop the 1500gp for full plate? Use my prestige points for half plate? Or is there some way I can combine the "buy any item 750gp or less" option from pp to make my purchase cheaper?

Cheers for any advice. Was also wondering if I should buy a Wand of Protection from Evil or Bless too with those pp.

[Matt2VK]

Save up for the masterwork Full Plate. From there, you can start adding on enchantments.

You can not combine PP purchases with money purchases. The PP purchases is more of a Pathfinder Society reward for doing good work. ie a bonus.
Most people use the PP purchases on potions (up to 3rd level spells for potions) or wands (1st level only).

If you're looking to bump up your Defenses a bit, for 2PP you can grab a Wand of Protection from Evil. As this is on your spell list, you can use the wand to bump up your defenses (vs Evil) and can come in handy later on for a bonus to saves vs Evil creatures.

[Erath]

Sounds good... do you think it's worth buying a complete stopgap solution (like banded mail)? Another +2 to AC would be a substantial upgrade, relatively thinking, and it's 250gp.

[Matt2VK]

No, because you should have enough money after 2 more sessions.