IceBear
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Doc Ezra said:
Why on earth would you think that it doesn't? There's no place that it says "well, enhancement bonus really means armor bonus." They gave the bonuses names for very particular reasons, and I assume when they tell me that bonus types x, y, and z don't apply, then those are the only ones they meant. it would have been a simple matter to state that in the touch attack description, and yet they didn't, and haven't in any subsequent errata/printing/clarification. So you're assuming that through multiple revisions of the texts, it never occurred to anybody that they should add "enhancement bonus" to the list of things that a touch attack ignores? Seems no more or less baffling than assuming it isn't ignored.
Because it's an enhancement bonus TO your armor bonus, not to you.
I think you're making this out to be more difficult than it is. All a touch AC is, is the DC for someone to touch you OR your armor. If it helps you avoid being touched it would apply.
IceBear