Trying Fassina out as a Sorceress. As a Divinity veteran I expected much from that mix. However I dont get quite how to build her. I gave her lots of defensive skills like Iron skin, charm beast, moonwell, beetle shell, essential phantom, and so on. I want to make her do damage primarly through melee, although she has some greater damaging skills like insect swarm.

I thought the combination Parasitic Staff and Taste for the Hunt would be neat.

imo using summoned weapons a druid/wizard is "viable" but not great, and is probably worse than either a pure spiritshift/summon druid build or a pure conjurer build. A druid/wizard can be pretty great, but not in the angle you're going for.

Taste of the Hunt with Citzal's Spirit Lance is pretty nice. Only heals once but applies the DoT to all hits.