Melee Archivist... pure or Gish?

[RUMBLETiGER]

I like the idea of Stacking Archivist's Dark Knowledge with the Knowledge Devotion, however I don't know how to grant an Archivist enough "Oomph" to make decent use of it. The spells of a Melee Cleric plus the ability to gain access to Druid spells should make for a spiffy combatant, if I could only get past that crappy BAB part.

Divine Power will help an Archivist from level 7 on, can a Pure Archivist hold his own in melee until then without multiclassing? Or would he be relegated to casting and support until level 7 (Not that it would be terrible, just trying to figure out the possabilities of the build)

The Actual Question: How might one make an Archivist who can be an excellent Melee combatant, as well as all the other great things and Archivist can do?

EDIT: Waitahminnute.... Can Knowledge Devotion be applied to spell attack accuracy and damage?

 

[rgard]

I like the idea of Stacking Archivist's Dark Knowledge with the Knowledge Devotion, however I don't know how to grant an Archivist enough "Oomph" to make decent use of it. The spells of a Melee Cleric plus the ability to gain access to Druid spells should make for a spiffy combatant, if I could only get past that crappy BAB part.

Divine Power will help an Archivist from level 7 on, can a Pure Archivist hold his own in melee until then without multiclassing? Or would he be relegated to casting and support until level 7 (Not that it would be terrible, just trying to figure out the possabilities of the build)

The Actual Question: How might one make an Archivist who can be an excellent Melee combatant, as well as all the other great things and Archivist can do?

EDIT: Waitahminnute.... Can Knowledge Devotion be applied to spell attack accuracy and damage?

You could re-work the Eldritch Knight PrC to require Divine spell casting ability instead of Arcane?