omniknight
First Post
Or not worry about it. The whole "OMG WIZARDS IN ARMOR" thing is kind of silly. Sure, being able to wear heavy armor is handy, but when you consider that you can do just as well stacking mage armor with bracers of defense and a 14 Dex, it's hardly game-breaking.
Ultimately, it's very, very hard to break the game with purely defensive attributes like AC. In this case, you can't even get your AC to unusual levels; all you can manage is to bring it up to where the fighter's already is.
You hardly put any thought into it. Heavy Armor + Shield + infinitely castable Shield spell (level 18 Wizard feature) = consistent 25 AC. Plus BoD equals 28 AC, which is overkill, so instead you have something like Bracers of +INT or +STs (if exists). And this AC is possible way before level 18 (like level ~3-5 if you dip Cleric first level), you just have to spend a L1 spell slot for it.