>But can you elaborate a little on not tanking. I see a couple
>of options...

#2 (fight them when they're fighting something else) and #3 (merc) were what came to my mind.

>Others that I'm missing? Right now if I see a warrior coming
>after me I'm likely to expect to get my ass handed to me.

Depends on the warrior. Some things you can do to turn the tables:

1. Protections. You can definitely have protection vs. alignment on hand. If you're knowledgeable you can have stoneskin. I can't think of it off hand, but there's probably some reasonable way to get "minor ward". I forget the rank at which invokers get their built-in shield spell, but there's that. You can make yourself fly so you can't be tripped and alter your size so you either can't be bashed at all or can't be bashed effectively. (Sometimes this is even better than not being bashable at all, since it can deceive your opponent to wasting his commands on ineffective bashes.)

2. Consider fighting only warriors with a vuln you can exploit or who are much lower rank than you. Nothing you says you have to fight all comers. Look for the good matchups and exploit them.