Have you tried any melee combat? Save, boost the relevant skills and try it out. With your choice of weapon expertise, Bleed, maybe Life Leech, Evade, etc, your low strength may not make that much of a difference (in D2:ED I found level 1 of Evade helped, but higher levels didn't give as much of a boost per skill point, so I didn't invest further).
If your intelligence is higher than your strength, try with magic based weapons, rather than normal. Other than charms, you could simply boost strength or intelligence the next few levels you go up, in order to improve melee abilities.
In D2:ED, once I was a high enough level that I didn't immediately need to boost a particular stat upon leveling, I started keeping a few in reserve. Trying to take out the level 27 guards in the quarry building before getting the battle tower (in DKS the tower is locked then), I figured extra hit points would help, and put the spare 10 stat points I had into Vitality.
Later I stopped assigning stat points to keep the game from getting too easy, and ended up with 39 spare stat points on level 36.
