Bedford, I think you can calm down a little about the combat aspect of the other characters. You're going to have a lot of melee power, I'm able to support you at times, WD has area-effect energy attacks at-will, ethandrew can give covering fire and Myth has arcane power out the wazoo. A healer would be handy, but UMD can cover it, too.
And if Gandalf is nice, he might let my Blood Quickening meditation on Tamara allow me to trigger CLW wands, when I am bound to Karsus. Would that be possible, boss? Karsus allows me to trigger wands/staves as a Wizard of my Binder level and the Tamara meditation allows me to "add" the Cure spells to my spell list, for the purposes of spell-completion and spell-trigger items. Might help cover the Healer part at times, since I am none too fond of Buer.