okay ... just off the top of my head ....
... yeah, sorry -- I'm capping-out at around +26. (well, I'm pretty sure I can push it to 30+, but then that's the only thing that he'll be doing; meaning he'll be worthless at everything else ....)
Hmm... without excessive cheese:
Dragonborn Water Orc Barb 1/Crus. 1/Warbl8
Str 24 (16 base +4 rac +2 levels, +2 item), with Rage 28 = +9, 10 BAB, = 19;
+1 and + two initiator school weapon = +7 to hit, +1 to damage; so +26, for a fair portion of the WBL, but who cares.
5 damage in steely resolve +1; +27
Flanking: +29
Emerald Razor: Single attack vs. touch every other round.
So if I were to blow my entire wealth on offensive items (+4 Str, too), I could actually reach +30 for one fight a day, since taking extra Rage sucks.
Now compare that to a neutral cleric 7:
10 Str, because I don't give a shit.
DMM persist Consumptive Field, and crushing a few bugs: Now my Str is NI. I have NI to hit and NI temp HP. (I forget, much rather, it's OVER 9000!)
My CL is about... let's say 15+, since I can buy/borrow/rob a few items to increase it.
My BAB is only 7, with persistent Divine Power, but I'm sure I can smack around some wizard to cast haste on me or even get puny items, so I can do 3x NI damage per round vs NI AC.
And since I can beat up trashmobs of far higher level, I have a lot more cash. So I can buy some armour spikes and a spiked shield (because, let's face it, I don't care about THF, I have NI damage, anyway, OR I simply have four or more arms and take daggers) to get immunity to the most common forms of dispelling, at least the targetted dispels.
But then what happens is that some idiot tried this before me, and once he learns about me, he comes to smack me dead with the dismembered arm of the other guy who tried that before me. And then I run home crying, because that encounter wasn't level appropriate.
So, Great Master of the Inferiority Complex, who loves to smite imbeciles, and can masturbate to the internet without even watching porn, please be so kind as to enlighten us how a beatstick EASILY and consistently gets +30 to hit vs touch, without shenanigans, and without completely sacrificing his defences. We REALLY DO want to know.
(And there is also still my question of how you scout all day with divinations.)