Make no mistake: the presence of a cleric in a party, especially a pure caster cleric, means that the party can stay topped off in hit points even after grueling battles. It is why every party wants a positive energy cleric if they intend on tackling more than two encounters a day. But why stop there? Why not see how well a cleric can contribute even with mid-battle healing?
We will need a cleric of Sarenrae for this, because she is one of the two deities who offers the Healing domain, and also because she offers the Truth domain, good for social scenes. The Healing domain's healer's blessing grants +2 healing per die in heal, thus making heal even more cost-effective, both in and out of combat.
I am avoiding fire ray because, as I recently learned, it does not deal double damage on a critical hit. I am likewise eschewing Communal Healing and Improved Communal Healing, because I do not think they grant that much in the way of additional meaningful healing. I am also avoiding mundane healing, because I just do not think it is worthwhile.
For this build, I am not going to bother listing down trained skills, skill increases, skill feats beyond the first, ancestry feats beyond the first, and general feats. Those are mostly matters of personal preference.
• Ability Score Priorities: Wisdom for spellcasting ability modifier and Spell Points > Charisma for positive energy pool > Dexterity for AC and ray of frost attack rolls > Constitution for hit points and Fortitude > Intelligence for trained skills > Strength for nothing.
• Ancestry: Gnome, for +2 Constitution, +2 Wisdom, +2 Charisma, a meaningless -2 Strength, and First World Magic for ray of frost, giving us an actually decent ranged damage option that can land critical hits.
• Starting Domain: Healing.
• 2nd-level Class Feat: Expanded Domain (Truth), because word of truth can have a big impact on social scenes.
• 2nd-level Skill Feat: Fleet, which is tagged as a skill feat, making it fair game. +5 speed helps us get into position.
• 4th-level Class Feat: Selective Energy, so that we can use heal without fear of it helping enemies.
• 6th-level Class Feat: Conical Channel, to give a new shape for heal, helpful given that the three-action version immobilizes us. Alternatively, Advanced Domain, for the Healing domain. This opens up healing font, which lets two spell points be spent in place of a use from the positive energy pool. This significantly upgrades a cleric's ability to throw out multiple heals each day.
• 8th-level Class Feat: Conical Channel or Advanced Domain, whichever was not selected earlier.
• 10th-level Class Feat: Channel Succor, so that the positive energy pool can be transformed into debuff removal.
• 14th-level Class Feat: Fast Channel, to reduce action cost on heal. This is golden.
• 18th-level Class Feat: Deity's Protection, to gain resistance whenever we use a domain power. Alternatively, Divine Will, to help with Will saving throws.
• 20th-level Class Feat: Miraculous Power, for a 10th-level spell slot, and thus 10th-level heals.
How would you improve this build?
