[Melusine]

SLIGHT TOB SPOILERS

You are right clerics would have problems when soloing, but in a group they are possibly one of the most powerful character class there is (yeah yeah, I KNOW it all comes down to preference and the way you use the character). Even when soloing, they'd be quite good. No undead would be a problem, as you can make them go pop using turn undead (by the time you meet more powerful undead, you will have leveled up enough to be able to destroy them). Using the Mace of Disruption +2 combined with this no undead would ever be a problem. Using Crom Faeyr you can take care of all Golems and Trolls. Clerics can use the Amulet of Power and they can wear full plate and a large shield. I got my cleric's AC to -17 without favouring her too much with all the best items (gave her the ring of Gaxx, Cloak of the Sewers and Ring of Earth control though). He/she will be worse at fighting than a fighter/ranger/paladin because of the specialisation and thac0 loss, but my cleric still has the most party kills to her name and deals an averag of 25 damage with each hit (about 47 for a crit hit). A solo cleric can cast find traps and send summond animals across them. They will have a big prob with high-magic-resistance creatures, because they cannot cast Lower Resistance and will therefore have to trust on their melee and indirect spells. Summoning devas would help lots though, as would spells like Aura of Flaming Death, Storm of Vengeance, Implosion and Globe of Blades. A successful Harm can finish off any creature failing its saving throw.