Feats and effects that affect a paladin's mercy also affect this abilityWhich feats and how?
Most Mercy Feats have "lay in hands" and "mercy class feature" as a prerequisite. Does this ability satisfy both prerequisites? How about if either is a prestige class prerequisite?
A paladin expends two uses of lay on hands to channel, do five channel attempts get expended to activate Ultimate Mercy?
When choosing Extra Mercy, does Merciful Healing clear two conditions at once (like it does for a Paladin), or does this just add one more Mercy to the Merciful Healer's toolbox?
How do these Feats work for multiclassed Cleric-Paladins? Do the Feats do double duty and affect both sets of abilities? Or is this a situation where you select which class they affect?
What other feats and affects?
Which feats and how? I think all feats with mercy as a prerequisite, even if they also require the lay on hands class feature. Alternately as we like to say in our group, "what does hero lab allow?" hahaha.
Prestige class prerequisite - no. Lay on hands would specifically be required in my opinion.
Converting channels to lay on hands. Yes, five uses of channel energy could be used to activate Ultimate Mercy. However, your Paladin caster level would be zero meaning you would have to cast raise dead the same day as the death, hope you still have five uses left.
Extra Mercy. It just adds an additional mercy to the healer's toolbox. The Merciful Healers special ability here is to remove conditions from an increasing number of targets in their burst area, where the Paladin is able to remove an increasing number of conditions from single target.
I think the feats do double duty.
Having said all that, it's just the way I interrupt the rules, I'm certain there is a multitude of other ways of doing so making this a problematic archetype for PFS play. What the player is counting on could find huge variance between tables ruining their enjoyment of the class choice. Deserving of a FAQ.
