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I need help putting together a level 9 caster cleric. Someone who doesn't plan to ever go to the front lines unless he's going to dish out some melee touch attack spells.

I've seen advice on putting together a melee cleric and the spells Righteous Might and Divine Power seem to support this style of play pretty well but I'm interested in a character who can call divine wrath down upon an enemy and I'm not seeing a good way to do it.

20 point buy, Pathfinder only material. And nothing from the bestiary for a race.

Need help with stat priorities, feats, skills, traits but especially spells, I want to see divine magic shine and I'm not seeing a way to make it fun other than buff and heal. I don't plan on not doing those things, but how to I hold my own first and foremost then back off for some buffs if they help the group more.

Thanks for the help, new to pathfinder and going back to just Core spells seems hard for some reason now.

Initial thought was Air or Water domain as in 2 levels I can toss out Cone of Cold or Chain Lightning. But that's not totally necessary, the cleric has lots of great utility but the goal of combat is to get the other guys to 0 hit points.

I apologize if this is answered somewhere but searching these terms gives me a lot of information from the original playtests and I don't have access to those so don't know if this changed or not.

Simple question.

Through Spell combat I try to do a full attack and cast a touch spell like Shocking Grasp.

I successfully cast the spell defensively but I miss the normal attack through Spellstrike.

Next round I've got a charged Shocking Grasp spell still active as melee touch spells don't discharge if you miss. Can I use spell combat and try to spellstrike with that charged spell again or would I need to cast another spell discharging a perfectly good spell in order to keep the full attack + spell attack onslaught going?

Basically, is the act of casting required to use Spell Combat and/or Spellstrike or is attacking with a spell sufficient?

The difference being if Spell Combat is fine but Spellstrike is not, I could still make the touch attack in addition to my full attack on subsequent rounds.