Nothing is particularly sad about those stat totals. My paladin has roughly the same ac/hp and that's with a few pieces of Velious raid gear tacked on. With self buffs, that places her slightly above 1100ac and 3000hp--more than enough to withstand the brunt of damage in group content. So whatever your paladin has equipped, they can't be hurting too much as the MA.
Personally, I would save for a fungi and then resell it once I had enough combined funds for a crown of narandi, and then group at Seb king for another fungi afterwards.
A deepwater breastplate would be the other, less expensive option, but one that's more ideal for soloing/duoing. That said, it still can be used in groups; so long as you aren't the one pulling, you can sneak in a click or two while mobs are still incoming. Clerics usually want their beefier symbol on you, but Pinzarn is still useful for off-healing the enchanter/bard/etc. Also, sometimes a (combination of) shaman/necro is healing, so you can keep yourself buffed and feed them hp to decrease downtime with it. At 15 plat a stack though, jaspers could start to eat into savings for other upgrades unless you win a few rolls.
Either way, now that Velious has been out for a while, the majority of players are substantially overgeared for Norrath. What kills us more than anything is our own xp greed--pulling more than we should, with respawns due--or being trained...and, even then, it's easy enough for tanks to survive and reestablish presence at a camp.
Paladins are already resilient as is, but with shawl, crown, fungi, dw bp, and jeldorin...near death would require a perfect storm and even then you would still have lay on hands and divine aura. The class is packed with safeguards so bolstering those innate abilities would take the platinum farther than if you tried to compensate for where the class is lacking, imo. Haste is great, but it's much better on other classes--shadow knights included due to their method of soloing versus a paladin's.
With divine purpose and fungi tunic you would have 23hp regenerating per tick.
With a crown of narandi, the mana drain from divine purpose would be mostly offset. With crown and coldain shawl, it would be completely offset.
TL;DR Mana or health regen, if you can afford either. If not, perhaps upgrade hp clicky from dw helm to bp.
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