This implies you need to actually only boost your DEX high enough to equip medium armor and Enable your damage resistance and huge strike position pool handle the rest. On another hand, with twenty DEX + 20 CON + a shield, you'll be able to achieve the highest doable AC for playable classes D&am

Your mount can use its reaction to impose disadvantage on any melee attack directed at you. With Warding Bond, it could possibly maximize your AC further although absorbing half your damage. You can even use a reaction to cast Protect for another +5 AC if a thing looks like it’ll penetrate you