Sacred Fist (paladin archetype) clarification

[Sir Thugsalot]

Under their "Spells" section is the following text, the relevant portion which I've bolded:

Quote:

At 4th level, when a sacred servant gains the ability to cast spells, she also chooses one domain associated with her deity. Her effective cleric level for this domain is equal to her paladin level –3. In addition, she also gains one domain spell slot for each level of paladin spells she can cast. Every day she must prepare the domain spell from her chosen domain in that spell slot.

Q. Does this mean that the domain's granted powers are commensurately delayed (i.e., that listed 8th level domain powers come on-line for the paladin at 11th)?

(This is on the heels of a discussion as to whether or not the trait Magical Knack affected domain powers with "cleric level" wording instead of "caster level"; consensus was that it did not.)

[Java Man]

Yes, it would delay access to domain powers.

[John Murdock]

cleric lvl and caster lvl are not the same thing, your cleric as an caster lvl equal to its cleric lvl but any variable depending on the cleric lvl in question are not modify by thing that modify caster lvl, they are two separate thing.

so yes it would delay your access to domain powers and something that boost your CL will not help you get it faster, the only way is if you find something that boost your effective cleric lvl to get access to those domain power

[Talib Aguiye Ironsi]

Sacred Servant. Sacred Fist is a Warpriest archetype.

[Sir Thugsalot]

(*Dammit* I really did that, didn't I? ...The inability to edit anything over an hour old is the one thing I well and truly hate about this site.)