Lockpick 5, Two handed sword mastery maxed out, Rush attack at 10, Whirlwind is good to have, but it`s not so powerful so at 1 it should be enough. Battle Rage 5, Life leech - maxed out. So that`s 42 skill points, relatively you get about 15 or so as bonus from mind reading, or maybe even more, so distribute those to your liking. I picked Thousand Strikes at 10, Reflect 5 and Regenerate 5.
Thousand Strikes is a love-hate skill, it`s only good for 1 vs 1, but you can kill anything without too much trouble even without it.
The Potion skill is useful, increases the amount of HP recovered with potions by some % and Mindread is fine, but relatively you don`t have too much skill points to spend on that, so don`t bother,
With that setup... How do you beat the Ministry part?
Definitely wouldn't get potion skill and mindread, way more interesting things to spend your xp on. You get more than enough xp throughout the game, just don't mindread too much in the beginning, and as you near completion of Broken Valley, do your mindreads then.
Very good of him to max out lockpick first though, I feel that skill is extremely important, gear-wise.
I personally used dual-wielding, and maxed that, Life Leech, Regeneration, and Whirlwind (Whirlwind at 6, the others as high as possible). Whirlwind is really good IMO, 'cause most of the time I'm fighting multiple enemies. Rush Attack went one point so I could rush rangers and healers better (though I'm thinking of maxing it out my next playthrough if the gains are worth it). Thousand Strikes is not worth it, costs way too much mana... Battle Rage... hmmm... It increases your damage, but lowers your armor significantly if you have a lot of points in it. I really enjoyed being in god-mode around lvl 30 (regenerate, life leech and high armour rating with the Scorpion set thingy = invincible me), so personally I wouldn't have wanted to switch for some more dps.
In the end I did put some skill points into Summon Demon, so I could easily do the Ministry thing. That really didn't work out for me with just my creature. With the demon it was piece of cake.
