Editing Prestige Class (section)

===Exalted===
The lone Pathfinder prestige class to see significant use and not be a way to merge two base classes. Exalted gives full divine casting and is easy to qualify for: 3rd level spells, 5 ranks in Diplomacy and Knowledge: Religion, the good Deific Obedience feat, and Skill Focus in Knowledge (Religion). Of those, the skill focus is the only thing unusual to see on a Cleric, but [[Half-Elf]] gets it free and [[Oracle]] wants it to take the Eldritch Heritage.

What makes this class desirable? The first is that Cleric doesn't actually have any non-spell class features beyond Channel Energy, which is not that useful if you don't focus on it (and Cleric is not a good class to do that in) and aren't in a haunt heavy campaign, and Domains (many of which stop advancing at 8th level) but Exalted does. While Exalted's class features start underwhelming, at level 3 they gain the first boon of Divine Obedience early (ECL 7 instead of ECL12), at level 5 they gain an extra domain and the spells from it ''as spell-like abilities''. Yes, many domains '''do''' have spells with expensive components or long casting time as domain spells. No, there isn't a clause saying an Exalted must spend the material component or extra casting time. They also get a free once-per-day Limited Wish as their capstone, which is good its own right.

Theoretically, the Exalted is ''supposed'' to be balanced by making the Exalted perform their obedience daily or revert to a very underleveled cleric till they can do it. The thing is, ''most'' daily obedience for non-evil deities are ''really'' easy to do, encompassing things like "play with a scale", "kneel to your deity", or "pound a stone with a hammer" and only a small handful (slay a proven wrongdoer) require much beyond common items and flavouring your hour of spell prep.