I haven't played in a while, but I like the Ranger and Paladin classes. Most of my Paladins end up with a greatsword, and my Rangers always use longbows. My most...interesting character would have to be my half-orc druid. He tended to run out of spells halfway through missions so he usually ended up beating down the hard enemies with a quarterstaff and blowing the weak enemies up with flame strike.

EDIT: I usually tend to stay away from wizard/sorceror classes - I find the play style for them to be hard to do for me. As I said, I usually have my characters waste all their magic early.