Divine Current: A Channel Focused Cleric Archetype

[London Duke]

Hey guys tell me what you think of my channel focused cleric. Is it balanced? I would imagine that at lower levels it would be fairly strong, but around time time normal clerics get 4th level spells he would start falling behind.

Divine Current

I had originally considered removing spells all together but I ran out of class abilities that were a suitable replacement.

If I did remove spells all together here are some thoughts:

Channel Mercy/Cruelty: At 3rd level and every three levels thereafter, a divine current chooses a mercy or cruelty (from the paladin or anti-paladin list) to add to his channel.

or

Bonus feats:
1st level: Channel Smite
3rd level:Bless Equipment
6th: Improved Bless Equipment
9th: Channel Revival
12th: Greater Bless Equipment
15th: ????
18th: ???

Possibly a combination of the two?

[London Duke]

Bump

[London Duke]

One more shameless bump

[Amanuensis]

Channel energy is a rather boring ability, so I would expect this archetype to spice things up. Instead of improving an existing feature, maybe you could come up with some interesting new abilities that can be done with channel energy (similar to variant channeling)?

[LoneKnave]

Being able to pick up variant channelings, get versatile channel for free, turn your spells into extra channels, meta-channeling (apply metamagic feats to channel; after all, it's basically exactly like a spell)... there's a lot of options to go here.