Is it possible to build a Ray Cleric?

[Kysune Heyoku]

Hello all,

First and foremost, I enjoy building and playing clerics of many sorts. I'm looking for some suggestions though on building a CORE ONLY Cleric that focuses on Archery, Rays, and ranged touch attacks.

I'm considering the race Elf, and my 1st and 3rd level feats being PBS and Precise Shot. What deities would be good candidates and any CORE suggestions to improve? I've thought of going mostly high Dex with secondary Wis, turning into an archer cleric that uses blasting spells when it's more advantageous.

The majority of scenarios in PFS I've played so I'm just trying to come up with something "fun" for CORE only PFS. Oracles are not an option.

[My Self]

I'd avoid ray-focused builds regardless of class and books limited to. Actually, RTT had a Channel Ray feat, but since you're going CRB, it'll hardly be useful.

Core clerics are very poor blasters, and blasters are pretty poor normally anyways. As an archer, you'll need the feat space. Very few books have any ray-build support, and the CRB has so little it's probably not worth investing feats into.

I'm pretty sure the best you'll get is as a plain Cleric archer with the fire domain or something. Regular Archery feats are decent for ray-users anyways. Any more feat investment in rays might net you 5% more blasting effectiveness at the cost of 10-20% loss in archery effectiveness.

[Arachnofiend]

Blasting isn't an option in Core. It's just straight up bad.

[Kysune Heyoku]

This is what I had drafted up already. I'm not too confident in my Domain and Deity choice though. As you can see it's pretty much an archer build. Searing Light would be the main go-to spell, which vs Undead is almost exactly on-par with Scorching Ray. The fallback is that Searing Light can always be converted to a healing spell if needed.

I agree, there's not very many options with it being limited to core though. Is there any good domains that offer excellent ranged spells or domain abilities? The idea is to use archery and to make ranged touch spells land easily.

Ranged Cleric:

Class – Cleric
Race – Elf
Alignment – Neutral Good
Deity – Sarenrae
Aura: Channel Positive

Domains:
* Sun
* Fire

Traits -
* Indomitable Faith [Faith]
* Reactionary [Combat]

Stats -
Str: 12
Dex: 19 (+2 racial)
Con: 11 (-2 racial)
Int: 12 (+2 racial)
Wis: 14
Cha: 7
2, 13, 3, 0, 5, -4 ----- 20 point build

1) Cleric 1: Bab +0, Point Blank Shot (lvl 1)
2) Cleric 2: Bab +1,
3) Cleric 3: Bab +2, Precise Shot (lvl 3)
4) Cleric 4: Bab +3, +1 Dex
5) Cleric 5: Bab +3, Rapid Shot (lvl 5)
6) Cleric 6: Bab +4,
7) Cleric 7: Bab +5, Spell Penetration (lvl 7)
8) Cleric 8: Bab +6/+1, +1 Dex
9) Cleric 9: Bab +6/+1, Manyshot (lvl 9)
10) Cleric 10: Bab +7/+2,
11) Cleric 11: Bab +8/+3, Weapon Focus: Longbow (lvl 11)

[Rashagar]

Wow, you can't even use Reach Spell with core only.

Sorry I can't help. Trying to sift through all character options, domain choices etc on the srd on a phone while limited like this sounds like my version of hell. One of those times when the physical book is much preferable heh.

Wish you the best of luck with it though. I have a soft spot for divine archers, and was looking at doing something thematically similar with a staff shaped like a bow that would fire ray spells.