My God you people are pathetic with a halfling archer build? Can you say absolutely rooting for min/max?
First of all, Paladins are knights and beings of great honor. Ranged combat was always considered the cowardly and lesser mans means of combat throughout history. I cannot imagine a being of honor fighting at a distance to avoid getting himself hurt. That is just pathetic.
A real warrior strikes steel with his opponent and proves his skill...not shooting the opponent to death at a range where he cannot fight back.
Ever heard of the Paladin code? Accepting surrender? Not surprise attacking or otherwise cowardly attacking an opponent? Guess what? By making a paladin a ranged attack build, you are doing NOTHING of the paladin code.
So what you are saying is that you care NOTHING of roleplaying and clearly just want to min max to get the smite evil effects at range so that the BBG cant tear a hole in your candy ass?
And a Halfling to boot? Wow. The most WEAKEST and COWARDLY race there is and you wish to stain the honor of the Paladin class by association.
Great going guys.