@Dragonspear I sort of agree.. but I don't have Wraithform yet. I would mem slow.. but with my R/C having an AC of -9 it doesn't matter how many attacks a melee enemy makes on that character, they mostly miss. So Ghost Armor works well for the moment, in that by casting it my AC drops low enough that between the two characters I can just melee away having fun without having to do much else.
For the tougher battles, I change tactics, so it's all good.
The last solo I did was a FMT, I took ++TWF and ++Dagger, using throwing daggers as my ranged. This lets me hoard gold for the Dagger of Venom instead of the Robes of the Archmagi as my first big buy. I found that between Blur, Armour, Mirror Image, Pro. Evil, and Elves Bane my AC was low enough for the early game.
I have a FMT run going currently as well - two handed sword & short bow currently pips in Long sword and axe as well- NG recruiting an all LG party (Aerie (romance), Annoyman, Rasaad, Keldorn, Mazzy)
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For the tougher battles, I change tactics, so it's all good.
thief/mage is cool but it doesnt really help mage and later on only slows him down