I'm surprised nobody mentioned cross training as a paladin or cleric... I mean, a fighter with boa, cds, and divine trans is pretty damn sick. A fighter with point defense, sick. A fighter with AOF, HA, maybe even a low level critback spell like holy aura from the WP guild topped off with their point defense spell, really sick. I think it would be silly to allow crosstraining in the first place, if you're just going to block all the fun spells anyway. What's the point of making an AM if they can't haste, get point defense, make portals etc? Cast light and faerie fire?