Molly Halvorsen's page

If the idea is to make the class more of a front line combatant, how about full BAB with weapon focus in either favored weapon or a basic martial weapon; with spellcasting moving to second level and a smaller spell list. The spell list could be all heal spells plus one domain at 2nd level and a 2nd domain at 4th level. Spontaneous casting within this limited list should be reasonable. The Warpriest would get the domain powers when they get access to the spells. With this gaining a new level of spells every other class level should work (at 2, 4, 6, etc). This gets us a fighter who gives up some feats and some of the other fighter abilities (weapon and armor training) for domain powers and limited casting (domain plus healing). You could add the ability to self heal at 5th level as a swift action.