Permadeath Paladin Gear Advice

[Arcturius]

Recently, I am have started playing all my paladins permadeath and I prefer soloing although I do group with my wife's 30th level druid sometimes. Having her druid around increases by survivability a lot. The highest I have ever advanced a permadeath paladin is 24th level.

During my few months of permadeath play, I have found that having a shiny brass idol and some crystallized pumice in my inventory saves my permadeath paladins from death from time to time. Obviously, the shiny brass idol can give a few additional seconds of survival in a some desperate situations and the crystallized pumice can un-root me so I can run away to zone or to guard(s) instead of being beaten to death by a ghoul or other root-casting NPC.

I am not a super experienced player, and I wonder what other player-sold and fairly inexpensive items I could wear or have in my inventory that would increase my survivability significantly. Journeyman's boots would be nice, but I don't currently have the coin for those. SoW potions are somewhat expensive for me, but sometimes I choose to use them when I am in especially dangerous places alone. Other than these options, I don't know enough about the available cheaper gear that is sold in the EC tunnel to discern which items can be truly life saving.

Also, I wonder what other fairly cheap items are available in game on NPC vendors or elsewhere that are not typically for sale in the EC tunnel (i.e. crystallized pumice) that might be especially valuable for saving my permadeath paladins in suddenly difficult circumstances or which might just generally increase their survivability.

Any advice would be appreciated.