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Looking for suggestions on how to build a range oracle (20 point buy, PFS legal, 2 traits).
Have no experence with Oracles and all the guides seem to be for melee.
The problem with oracles and ranged attacks is that 1) ranged combat is feat intensive and oracles don't get bonus feats and 2) there are a tiny number of ranged touch divine spells, so you don't get the synergy a sorcerer can manage with a variety of ray spells.
You can make a ranged oracle, but none of the current oracle mysteries or reservations is an above average choice for a ranged combatant.
Though it hasn't seen much play in game, I have something of an archery-oriented oracle build, if you'd like to hear how I went for it.
First level is barbarian with the Urban Barbarian archetype. This grabs you controlled rage (likely best applied to Dex, though maybe to Str on occasion), while picking up weapon proficiencies (primarily longbow as your weapon of choice). It also gets you some extra hit points at first level (i.e. if you're gonna dip a d12 class, may as well do it on the maxed hit die).
After that, I've got straight Oracle with the Wind mystery, and, personally, I took the Lame curse. This gives you immunity to the fatigue you'd normally have after raging once you hit level 6 (Oracle 5), and at level 8 (Oracle 7) you can get access to the Wings of Air revelation, giving you a fly speed of 60 feet (which later upgrades to 90), nicely bypassing the reduced movement speed. Until then, the lower speed might hurt a bit, but if you think it might be a problem, you could obviously just take a different curse. With ranged combat, you should hopefully not need to run around too much.
Of course, you can mix and match your curse and mystery however you like. That's simply what I went with. Easy access to flight on a ranged character appeals to me.
For stats, Dex and Str are pretty much vital, with Cha at least up to your spellcasting potential. You might let your strength lag a bit if needed, and rely more on buffs and static weapon enhancements to add damage if you want to, though.
4 Skill points per level means you shouldn't need too much into Int, Will is a good save for Oracles, so you shouldn't need to beef that up too much, and Con is... well, good, but with a d8 *, plus staying at range, you should be more or less okay on that. Of course, it does affect your HP, Fort Save, and rage per day, so it's certainly nice to boost a bit. *Edit: Err, actually, I forgot to mention the awesome air barrier revelation that I would probably recommend over actual armor. Scales from +4 at first level to +12 at 19, with a 50% miss chance on any ranged attacks when level 13 (all of these one level higher cuz of the Barb dip, but it's pretty nice, imo). Not being able to put enchantments on it can be unfortunate, but it saves you quite a lot of cash considering what it does for you, and with no armor check penalty or anything.
I don't know, there's some thoughts at least. Like I said, the build in question hasn't really seen too much actual play, so it's basically theorycrafting, but might help for some ideas.
get 2 levels of barb to pick up a ragepower and go ragecycling as you can do it anyway!
But maybe pick up battle, even though wind is nice, but it gets you weapon focus for free, gives you war sight, surprising charge and some other pok stuff.