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I think you missed a looooooot.
Shadowharts Chain mail is really special a +3 chain mail whit in building shield of faith. It net you 22 with medium armor mastery.
Raphaels armor simply just gives 21 ac.

And there is 2 rings that can give +1 armor class +1 cloak +1 boots + 1 gloves + flail.

And yes armor outperforms everything specifically on paladin and barbarian or bard. If someone is reaching the 30 - 31 and start to buff on top of that and the character have an item that gives him immune to critical . Then in the end there no enemy in the game that can hit you with an attack.

But there is one green armor that is on a top of everything.
That can give you even 40-50 armor class with an ongoing debuffot. But I refuse to use it because I think it is a bug.