How to buff my Paladin's AC

[EsperMagic]

Ok so currently I have a 15th Level paladin but my AC is only 35. How can I increase this to say closer to 40 or more?

AC= 10 + 14 Armor + 3 Dex + 5 Natural Armor + 3 Deflection Bonus

It increases to 38 when using Smite Evil due to my CHA mod being +6 and deflection bonuses not stacking.

If it helps I'm using a 2-handed weapon.

[Bacon666]

A 1 level dip to oracle gives cha instead if dex to ac..

Sword and board gives up to 9 ac but lower dmg output than 2H...

What gear do you use?

[Jon Otaguro 428]

Dusty rose ioun stone (+1 insight bonus to AC; 5000GP)
Jingasa of the fortunate soldier (+1 luck bonus to AC; 5000GP, head slot; Fate's Favored trait makes this +2 luck bonus to AC)

Some Method to get a shield bonus -
Cloak of the hedgewizard (shield; +4 AC, 1min per day)
Animated Shield (kind of clunky since you need to wield then animate)
Ring of Force Shield (+2AC, 8500GP)
Quickdraw Shield + Quickdraw shield

Feats:
Combat Expertise
Dodge
Osyluth Guile

[BobtheSamurai]

Champion armor enhancement: +2 sacred bonus to AC vs smite target

[Nawtyit]

1 level of Holy Vindicator can give you a +8 sacred bonus at your level.

[Deadmanwalking]

Raising Dex to 12 with either an addition to your belt or an Ioun Stone would also help (6k-8k).

If you're a Dwarf or Half-Orc you could also grab the Iron Hide feat, and then potentially Improved Natural Armor.

A Wand of Shield and Use Magic Device is also valid (and cheap, money-wise). Of course, getting UMD if you lack it is a bit tricky.

[EsperMagic]

ok stats..

Str 28
Dex 18
Con 20
Int 13
Wis 8
Cha 22

I have a +5 Mithral Righteous Fullplate armor. Amulet of NA +5, Ring of Protection +3, Wielding a Falchion, spiked gauntlets of Feybane and Evil outsider bane, and Briar(This is a kingmaker-specific item), also a +1 Adaptive Composite Longbow.

The ioun stone and the Jingasa are both good ideas I originally forgot about.

Tha oracle cha->dex thing is still limited by your armor's max dex I believe so it would stay the same

[Deadmanwalking]

EsperMagic wrote:

Tha oracle cha->dex thing is still limited by your armor's max dex I believe so it would stay the same

It is. I can't believe I missed that you already had +3 from Dex...my bad.

You could get +2 Int either from a boosted headband or Ioun Stone and pick UMD as its skill granting access to Wand of Shield and maybe a few other defensive spells, but that's all I'm coming up with in terms of AC enhancers beyond the already mentioned Feats.