Heroed and made Dreadlord. Not my best A-P but the best I had played at the time. I think he's the only half-elf A-P on record and there have been some half-drow who never heroed.

I was using a spear of course and while losing the point of strength should have been hurting my melee gaining a point of dex may or may not have been helping it and for the most part it didn't seem like my melee was any worse. Gaining a point of int and wis should apparently aid in overcoming people's saves and I think opens up a couple of edges. Not wearing iron was mildly annoying, but I got round it and mithril would probably be easier to work around.

Actually the biggest reason I usually pick human over halfie is not having to come up with an interspecies romance storyline if I want to write a role.