ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

I would really like to give this a go, I tried pure ranged warden but honestly found it too boring, archery just not my thing I guess. I was thinking I would like to try some sort of pure melee temporal warden, some kind of shadow blade-ish type deal maybe? Any suggestions on how to go about that?

Get the Staff training and use that for versatile melee + casting. Obviously you don't need much Str beyond what your armor demands, you just need lots of Magic.


Alternately, how do you feel about addon classes?