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For a cleric/oracle that channels positive energy, and casts cure spells, I know that when you channel you must choose to heal living creatures or damage undead creatures.

1) For mass cure spells and for mass heal, does it work the same way? Does the caster choose living targets to heal OR undead targets to damage? or may he do both at the same time with one casting? (IE: level 17 cleric selects himself and 3 allies to heal as well as damaging the 8 undead creatures attacking the party)

2) If he uses mass heal to damage undead, does he need to make ranged touch attacks or just select targets to be affected within the range (no 2 may be more than 30 feet apart)

We had a discussion at our table and we made a group ruling, and I've been trying to find something that indicates one way or the other on how it is intended to work.

spell like abilities provoke attacks of opportunity, I know this is in the rules.

"You can cast a quickened spell (see the Quicken Spell metamagic feat), or any spell whose casting time is designated as a free or swift action, as a swift action. Only one such spell can be cast in any round, and such spells don't count toward your normal limit of one spell per round. Casting a spell as a swift action doesn't incur an attack of opportunity."

So we have standard spells/SLA's that provoke and swift ones that do not.

Copycat (cleric trickery domain 1st level ability) is a SLA that is a move action, I'm assuming it provokes, but was checking to see if this is true or if there is a ruling somewhere that would confirm or change my assumption.

Prerequisites: Str 13, Improved Sunder, Power Attack, base attack bonus +9.

Benefit: Whenever you score a critical hit with a melee attack, you can sunder your opponent’s weapon, in addition to the normal damage dealt by the attack. If your confirmation roll exceeds your opponent’s CMD, you may deal damage to your opponent’s weapon as if from the sunder combat maneuver (roll normal damage to the weapon separately). This does not provoke an attack of opportunity.

Normal: You must perform a sunder combat maneuver to sunder an opponent’s weapon.

Special: You can only apply the effects of one of the following feats to a given critical hit: Bull Rush Strike, Disarming Strike, Repositioning Strike, Sundering Strike, or Tripping Strike. You may choose to use this feat after you make your confirmation roll

I know it states that for the feat to work you need your confirmation roll to exceed the enemies cmd.

My first question is this, what is taken into consideration of that confirmation roll, does critical focus (adding +4 to your confirmation roll) count? Does Improved and Greater sunder bonuses count? Is there anything that does get added to the sunder attempt or even removed from the sunder attempt, or does the sunder attempt always equal the confirmation roll no additions, no subtractions.

My Second question: I read that this feat targets weapons, is there any reason this should not be allowed to target armor/shield instead?

I'm fairly certain on the RAW, but what about RAI?