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In the first printing the Undeath variant channeling reads:
Heal - The healing effect is enhanced for undead creatures and those with negative energy affinity.
Harm - This works like a standard channel (not halved).
My character is a Dhampir Undead Lord Cleric of Urgathoa. I took this variant in order to use my channel negative energy to more effectively heal myself and my corpse companion as well as any other undead minions I pick up along the way. To me this entry meant that I would heal half again as much as I would have otherwise and my harm living would still be fully effective.
Now in the Errata'd Ultimate Magic it reads:
Heal - This works like a standard channel (not halved).
Harm - The healing effect is enhanced for undead creatures and those with negative energy affinity.
What could that mean, why would a healing effect be listed under Harm? Is it because it's negative energy? Does this still function the way I described above or some new way? Is this simply a formatting correction or is it changing the way it works?
Help would be greatly appreciated.
That looks like an erroneous erratum to me. When you channel, IIRC, you have to pick "heal" or "harm". Harming with that channel won't heal anything, undead or otherwise.
No actually this makes sense in a roundabout way.
The variant channel wording:
Heal effects apply only to the healing property of a positive energy channel.
Harm effects apply only to the damaging property of a negative energy channel.
You cant use positive energy to heal undead, if the enhanced effect were applied to a positive channel on undead creatures it would actually wind up doing 150% damage and no healing.
But then again, harm effects are only for dealing damage to living creatures, no matter how its written I dont see any easy way of wording this rule.
My personal solution:
An evil/neutral cleric who channels negative energy and has this variant channel has an enhanced healing effect for undead. Simple as that.