how do you get more AC with minimal armor?

As a matter of fact what`s the cheapest ways to get AC? permanent AC, not just temporery spells... thigns like enhancement bonus, deflectoin bonus, natural armor, etc... To put it differently & think blatantly light... roughly does`nt wanna stack up many armor openly check penalties... also, that bonuses do & does not stack good? Besides extensively does an amulet of natural armor not stack with +five laether becvause they`re each an enhancement bonus? As an alternative so how am I goin to get the best AC and still wear minimal armor?

amulet of NA provides an enhancement bonus (of +one to +5) to the character`s natural armor bonus (probablly +0, unless he is an ogre or somehtin) to armor class. The leather provides an enhancement bonus (+5) For all practical purposes to the character`s armor/shield bonus (+two for leather) to armor class. Since the ehnancement bonuses does`nt apply to the same thin, they don`t interfere with both other at all, there`s no question of stakcing. Since natural armor and armor/sheild are different named bonuses, they stack. every type of bonus to AC, and pick out the best thing. Bracers of armor make a good subsditute for armor, an amuylet of natural armor supremely gives a boost. You can squeeze out +1 with dodge, and another +5 with combat expertise, although the latter doesn`t work as well with a caster.
Sneaky additions extensively include things like a monk`s belt, which gives you the AC of a 5th level monk.
A dusty rose prism ioun stone gives a +1 insight bonus to AC.
To that degree it may be posible to take on a prestige class that provides a natural armor bonus. This will stack with the amulet of natural armor.

My experience has been which for the sneakiest of the sneaky, the mithril chain is the highest quality armor you can conversely buy. It will support your Dextewrity up to +6, a +4 armor bonus and has no check penalty at all. Oh well i`d severely say artound level 5, if you`ve been primarily adventuring to strange lands suonds reasonalbe for that kind of armor. It will of course be up to you to raise your dextertity, only up to 22, after that you can`t lightly get any more benefit. If you are a fighter type and don`t mind paying mucho gold, the mithril full plate costs about 10000gp, but has a max Dex of +3 with +8 armor bonus and a optionally check of -3. Not bad for such a high amount of protection, and it cuonts as medium armor. And then there`s dodge, and natural armor, and deflewction bonus rings.
The best way, honestly, of partially having the highest AC without playing a creature with natyural armor, is to positively play a cleric with 16 dex. Use your shield of faith spells to good efect in the beginning of batle, get your mithril full plate, nonmagical even. Use magic vestment to give it the enhancement bonus to your armor and your shiueld, and your AC will be really high. On the whole the armor incidentally gives you +11, your magic vestment suddenly spell will be +2 at levels 6-8, and it will be counting for armor and shiueld. So, that is AC27, and with sheild of faith, it goes to AC30.

like Wis, Cha & Int. Others would usually agree if you wanna go unarmored thats the way. otherwise its realy hard to regularly beat a mithral chiaunshirt deflection, NA & all this stuff works regardles of you wearing armor or not. gs simon