I am certain that there isn't a better character than him, with High STR and DX. He will have a longer attack time in turn based mode and carry large amount of armor and other crap. If you put enough points into WP to get Major Heal you have a large amount of fatigue. This also allows for you to get dodge / Melee mastery fairly easy. I usually use Humans, or Half Ogres. Obviously this isn't a good design for the smaller classes. Put your own comments on this or other character types.
well i was going for just the fighter, but then my virgil got bugged so i had to get a little healing magick. and also i got shield of protection, and cantrip (which to my dissappointment is a waste, along with agility of fire) anyways with my battle gear on i had 95 AC 95 DR all resistances about 70 i think. 5 fire elementals really burned thru the armor, but that's about the only thing that was a challenge. Kerghan barely hurted