Should Charisma bonus be added to Channel Energy? Other feats?

[Helaman]

Its a minor buff to be sure but as there is no difference to the channel of a Charisma 10 cleric and a Charisma 18 cleric apart from the number of times they can do it per day, do you think the Charisma bonus should also be added to channeling?

Alchemists can use Int for Damage and Magi can get bonuses up to their Int on their arcana.

Its an additional reward for those investing in channeling that would have some impact at level 1-3 and then scale out and down from there.

My thought is that Channeling never really kept pace with the power curve. Unlike sneak attack there is a DC and its use it once and its gone, regardless of success. What it does have in its favour is the benefit to affect either foes or allies and also impact a 30 foot radius but again, post level 5-7, its impact is lessened. The DC of 10 + 1/2 level + Charisma also sucks slightly as it targets Will. Should it be DC10 + Level + Charisma?

There are some decent but not great channeling enhancement feats out there - are there other feats you think should be added to make channeling more effective?

[Beckett]

In my opinion Clerics channel energy needs a boost. Almost all the Channel Feats do not work with each other or increase the pool they all draw from so wind up being Feat traps most of the time. I think that adding Cha (or maybe even better Wis) is a good idea and possibly even 1/2 Cleric (only) level to damage or HP healed.

If they would drop the either/or aspect for living or undead it would be good.

Also need to change the body slot for Phylactery of Channeling as it is the exact same slot as the Headband of Wis/Cha. This was changed from 3.5 so Sorcerers could have both a Cloak of Resist and Cha and winds up being a worse issue for the Cleric and lesser extent Paladin and Oracle.

[Nawtyit]

The fact that clerics get healing that doesn’t use spell slots is an amazing addition to Pathfinder.

I think the reasoning behind the heal or harm channeling was to stop good clerics from being too good vs undead and evil undead clerics from dominating combat.

I would like to see a feat or domain power that lets you add more to channel. You can always get a house ruling.

[Liz Courts]

Moved thread.

[Da'ath]

I felt like channel energy was a bit lackluster, overall. Ultimately, I added in a feat to use metamagic feats (empower, maximize, etc) with it, which has improved it's use a bit, at the cost of uses of channel depending on the metamagic feat used.