If you keep her trickery she can make for a decent melee range fighter. She can take hits.
That said though, she hits with melee like a wet noodle and is constantly out of spells.
I should try respeccing her life domain, but the character I'm messing around with isn't using her. I just don't have room.
That's mainly because of her stats. STR and DEX are both poor. Better to go for one or the other and she doesn't need more than 14 DEX with medium armour. Early game I had her mainly ranged due to the lack of a decent melee weapon even though I had tweaked the stats in favour of STR. From the beginning of Act 2 you get some decent melee weapons. With the adamantine medium armour and a +2 shield her AC was right up there.
I don't use healing spells that much - potions in combat is my thing.
