Holy is what you make it. Do you actually need him to have Divine Powers, or just to be a "devout man of god" so to speak. Because if thats the case then just role play the character in a "holy" manner. If you want divine powers then perhaps inquisitor might work best, maybe with a fauchard.
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You can make this a Sohei monk. Great initiative, you can flurry with a weapon group (polearm). ALternatively, take a normal monk w/ a level dip into crusader cleric to flurry with a favored weapon with a feat.
Finally, do a reach cleric! There's a whole guide on it. I'm pretty sure that you could make reach cleric work for a paladin too by the way.
This is screaming metal or wood oracle
Holy is what you make it. Do you actually him to have Divine Powers, or just to be a "devout man of god" so to speak. Because if thats the case then just role play the character in a "holy" manner. If you want divine powers then perhaps inquisitor might work best, maybe with a fauchard.Good point, My party is relying on my character being able to put out at least part of the party healing.
Ideally I'd like to be just strait fighter, and take a bunch of the luck feats from 3.5 and be more "favored of the gods" than actually "holy and magic and stuff"
Since the party will be relying on your for at least partial healing then I would focus on either Paladin or Cleric. Though, Paladin seems a little off in terms of where this character comes from, too much emphasis on law in my opinion. This character seems more like the neutral good type.
Ultimately a Paladin's LoH can be a strong healing effect, at the very least for him and will have good combat skills. However, against non-evil target that he can't smite his damage wont be nearly as good as a straight fighter or barbarian.
Perhaps a battle cleric will work. You can buff yourself into keeping up in terms of to-hit and with the right feat selection you'd be able to keep up in terms of damage with a paladin against non-evil targets. You're spell save DCs would probably suffer so you wouldn't want to cast many offensive spells, focuses instead on buffs and healing.
Edit: At best maybe a battle oracle. You would get all the cure spells as spells know (if you're good) and you get the whole "cursed/chosen" by the gods vibe. The battle or metal oracles abilities make them pretty good melee combatants as well.
Double Edit: Ninja'd by Lamontius
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Well, depending on how much healing is partial healing, you could just one level dip into cleric/oracle and get access to scrolls and wands. Then you could be closer to what you want to play.
Other ways to "Holy Up" the straight fighter (although I agree RP is enough)...
1) Use some of those many feats to take eldritch heritage (Celestial). You would pick up a small healing at range (enough to stabilize) and could get flight at 11th level. You'll need Skill Focus (Heal), so then you can tell people you made a healer.
2) Convince your GM to let you play an Aasimar, reskinned as a blessed human. Essentially, you are trading your bonus skill and feat for some resistances, darkvision, daylight, and a "the look."
Healing builds
Battle Oracle. Proficiency in all polearms, heavy armor, lots of spells.
Reach Cleric. Great action economy. You are using polearms anyway...
Since you are starting at level 6, why not multiclass? Take Fighter x/cleric (6-x). Not the best move in a Pathfinder game typically, but it seems like it might work here. I'd advice taking paladin for this if you do choose to multiclass though, since it would be hard to take anything more than a dip of fighter before it starts to encroach on your healing abilities at the start.
Fighter 4 might be nice, since it can net you: armor training (if you use an archetype with it), 3 extra feats, and the right to use weapon specialization (who doesn't an extra +2 damage to every hit?). If you took the weapon master archetype, you could get early weapon training with a preferred weapon (although it restricts you to a specific weapon).
Two levels of cleric still nets you channel energy and spontaneous cure light wounds for healing, as well as the ability to use wands to do the same. Going cleric the rest of the way in the campaign would allow you to further expand your ability to heal while falling back on the base of fighter for effective melee combat. This generally relies upon the tactics of your general reach cleric after that.
i think polearm fighter is the way you want to go based on the two options you put out there.
you could take the sacred touch trait for alittle bit of holy, maybe ask DM to let you use a feat to be allowed to cast Bless once per day w your HD/2 as the CL. Something like that.
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Which polearm was it that is basically a scythe with the blade turned pointy-end-out? I know there's a lot of talk about the Scythe in fact being that weapon, or maybe not, but I could've sworn one of the polearms in the book is described as being a farmer's tool.
If you want to flavor this guy as a farmer, I'd definitely avoid Cleric, Inquisitor, or Paladin, since those imply that this guy has a religious organization backing him. Aasimar Fighter is a good option, as is Oracle.
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Which polearm was it that is basically a scythe with the blade turned pointy-end-out? I know there's a lot of talk about the Scythe in fact being that weapon, or maybe not, but I could've sworn one of the polearms in the book is described as being a farmer's tool.
That's a war scythe, which (in a crazy, less balance-oriented world) is pretty much just a farming scythe that looks less cool and should be more effective in combat than its farming counterpart (but isn't.) In Pathfinder, they're identical in function and skewed in flavor to "farmer tool turned murderous" in any canon or AP I've seen/experienced because they look cooler.
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Which polearm was it that is basically a scythe with the blade turned pointy-end-out? I know there's a lot of talk about the Scythe in fact being that weapon, or maybe not, but I could've sworn one of the polearms in the book is described as being a farmer's tool.That's a war scythe, which (in a crazy, less balance-oriented world) is pretty much just a farming scythe that looks less cool and should be more effective in combat than its farming counterpart (but isn't.) In Pathfinder, they're identical in function and skewed in flavor to "farmer tool turned murderous" in any canon or AP I've seen/experienced because they look cooler.
I really wish there were weapon stats for pitchforks. Alas...
Check this trait out:
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/traits/equipment-traits/rough-and-ready
So you can use any item that you use in your trade without the -4 penalty, but instead gain a +1 trait bonus to attacks.
So:
Pitchfork could be treated as a two-handed trident.
Shovel could be treated as a two-handed club of sorts.
And
a scythe could be treated as a farming scythe could be treated as a scythe.
GENUS!
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Maybe Holy Vindicator? Instead of doing 8 cleric then 4 fighter you could do 4 pole arm master and then swap to cleric later, or do PA fighter 2 to get shorten grip, then swap to cleric, then come back to fighter at higher levels for the bonuses to hit when you need em.
I did PA 2, then Alch 4, then more PA to level 12, and never had a problem keeping up with the power curve.
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I think the only downfall of this build is you can't enchant tools, correct? I think there was a post about this just the other day. If you're really stuck on using a real farm tool as opposed to a re-skinned weapon you'd really fall behind with a min-max group. On the other hand using a re-skinned enchanted weapon seems a little cheesy for use with Rough and Ready.