Dodge or items or spells that apply a deflection bonus apply to touch AC. Smite Evil provides a deflection bonus equal to your charisma modifier against the target of your smite.
Also, remember that the AC bonus from Smite Evil is a deflection bonus, so it will apply to touch AC (but of course won't stack with your ring of protection).
In addition to Ring of Protection and Jingasa of the Fortunate Soldier, there's the Dusty Rose Prism Ioun Stone, which gives a +1 insight bonus. Any forms of dodge bonus (such as fighting defensively) will also apply. Really, any bonus that doesn't come from armor, shield, or natural armor, but those are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head.
Eaglesoul (Spell, Paladin 4) adds a sacred bonus to AC and Str, and Planned Assault (Spell, Paladin 3) adds a nice sacred bonus with heavy stipulations on the spell depending on the GM.
I think any bonus except armor, shield, or natural will count towards touch ac. Dodge, dex, and deflection are you first go to's.
Fighting defensively or Combat Expertise works too
A minor cloak of displacement won't actually help your touch AC, but it will help touch defense. (It'll also make it much harder to sneak attack you, which would probably be nice if your low dex is making your initiative suffer too.)
Not relevant for a paladin but a Barbarian with Superstition and Ghost Rager can have an incredible touch AC for a class that isn't Monk.
Human + Superstition + Ghost Rager + Courageous/Furious weapon = +16 bonus against spells, spell like abilities, supernatural abilities and added to your touch AC.
God I love the smell of superstitious barbarians, smells like victory.
And unwashed bodies, but mostly victory.
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Not relevant for a paladin but a Barbarian with Superstition and Ghost Rager can have an incredible touch AC for a class that isn't Monk.
Human + Superstition + Ghost Rager + Courageous/Furious weapon = +16 bonus against spells, spell like abilities, supernatural abilities and added to your touch AC.
God I love the smell of superstitious barbarians, smells like victory.
And unwashed bodies, but mostly victory.
Have wondered one thing about this. Courageous modifies morale bonuses. Superstition is a morale bonus, and ghost rager is a morale bonus based on your superstition value. Once your superstition is modified by courageous, it creates a new base for ghost , so would it effectively double the courageous bonus for the ghost rager? It sounds a bit cheesy, so it probably isn't.
Have wondered one thing about this. Courageous modifies morale bonuses. Superstition is a morale bonus, and ghost rager is a morale bonus based on your superstition value. Once your superstition is modified by courageous, it creates a new base for ghost , so would it effectively double the courageous bonus for the ghost rager? It sounds a bit cheesy, so it probably isn't.
Not sure I understand your question, but I think the answer is no in any regard. The bonus you get from Ghost Rager is based on your Superstition bonus. Courageous increases this bonus (as done the human favored class bonus) and you will use that value for your save bonus and touch AC. So, for example a human barbarian can take 1/3 bonus to Superstition (+6 at level 18) and the Superstition Rage power starts at 2 and gains 1 for every 4 levels of barbarian for a total of +7 at level 20. These combine for +13. The courageous weapon property increases the bonus of any morale bonus (which includes Superstition) by half the weapon's enhancement bonus. A +5 courageous furious weapon has an effective enhancement of +7, which rounds down to 3, thus providing a +16 bonus for Superstition and Ghost Rager.
