Interesting suggestion, though I'd go at least 8 in Warmage for the medium armor with no arcane failure.
Thank you for the suggestions so far, and thanks for the welcome to the forums! My DM posts here already so I imagine he'll be here shortly to taunt me -_-
Ooh, and that looks evil...
My DM is planning on running a lengthly campaign starting at first level and is planning on keeping these characters alive possibly to epic level (provided we all live that long :p) and I decided to make a warmage since I have destructive magical tendencies :D.
I plan on multiclassing at some...