There's obviously a lot more to this game than I realized...
I tried with a mage thief...but it took me five minutes to kill the first mephit, and we won't talk about the ogre mage, now, will we? No, I think not.
Fighter / Mage / Thief is working better, although the flesh golems pound me to goo (splatter - ultra chunky). Flexibility is nice except I'm not good enough at anything to do anything