I'm going through for the first time (fairly close to finishing, I think. Or at least to getting to the Wilderness bits), and I'm playing as a female warrior. Though I've invested more skill points in both wizard and survivor skills than I have in warrior skills.
And even though I haven't tried the other special moves, I'm thinking that they'd have to go some to beat the warrior one, which has got me out of one or two tight spots, especially now I've got the stamina to keep doing it for about half an hour <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />