[StarVid]

Here are some classes I enjoyed in the past.

Wild Mage: You need ToB of course. I had a lot of fun with this one. With chaos shield and reckless dwoemer (pick it on character creation, I don't think it comes in a scroll). I was casting some crazy spells before I was even the level to do it. Besides, wild surges are fun!!!

Cleric/Mage: This is a dual classed character and one of my favs. It's an old one so I don't remember what cleric kit I picked for BG2. I think I dualed it at level 9 so I could get access to a 5th level spell. What made this work was that it was actually a maxed BG1 character I imported. I had used tomes (only once for each stat though as that's the official rule) so I had some a lot of sweet extra cleric spells with a 19 wis. Also, with a 19 int, I never had to worry about having too many spells per level (that really annoyed me and I didn't want to bother with potions of genius).

Fav cleric spells (other than cure spells) to keep on hand:
L1-Bless, Doom, Remove Fear (opens of a l2 wiz spell slot), sanctuary (just in case)
L2-Chant, Hold Person (gets useless quick though), Resist Fire/Cold
L3-Animate Dead (until I'm a 15th level mage), Miscast Magic, Protection from Fire, Remove Paralysis, Zone of Sweet Air (just in case)
L4-Free Action, Lesser Restore, *Negative Plane Protection*, Protection from Evil 10'
L5-I pretty much just used True Sight though there's a lot of other nice ones.

I haven't played a lot of spellcasters, but I did enjoy the Undead Hunter (2H swords) for the time that I played it. Level drain was what annoyed me the most so an UH and other tank with the amulet of power did really well.