I've long thought that the Ecclesitheurge is a poor archetype, but that's not what this is about. Rather, it's about the archetype's entry in the PRD. Under "Ecclesitheurge's Vow", it says:
An ecclesitheurge who wears prohibited armor or uses a prohibited shield is unable to use his blessing of the faithful ability, use cleric domain powers, or cast cleric spells.
The problem is that there is no such thing as a "blessing of the faithful" ability in the archetype description, or in the class description of the Cleric. Is this missing class ability the thing that makes the archetype worth taking? Because as it stands you give up armor, shields, your deity's favored weapon, and 1d6 of channeling in exchange for a slightly less limited domain spell list and a bonded holy symbol.
Does anyone know what blessing of the faithful is, and when/if it's getting added back in? Or if it was intended to be removed, when the language on the PRD will be corrected?
Hmm. I don't see anything in the ACG FAQ, and the only forum posts I've found indicate that the ability isn't supposed to exist. Any idea where you saw it added back in?
Is this what we're looking for?
Yep! The only threads I found were the one where Cheapy (who designed the class) stated that the ability had been removed in editing. Thanks!