Just be a Paladin
Take Improved Init, and Improved Disarm , and belittle the huge minotaur guy for always smashing the poor unarmed opponents to bits.
How's he getting Improved Disarm with his stat base, again?
Touche', you smart a$$ ed my smart a$$ comment.
Ok, i'm a few things im not quite understanding, you wanted to not not out shine the players but now you are being "outshined" and you want a better build.
The half mino "cut you down" for trying to put out a fire he made to burn down the inn? The PC did this? then you healed him with LoH or was there another half mino?
Obviously you are not useless, based on what you told us your character has done so far. heck you have fullplate at lvl 2, I had a paladin who used a broken bastard sword (read short sword) and ratty beat up scale mail for the first 6 levels of his "career"
EDIT: just re read your post again for the 3rd time i guess my reading skills suck today.
anyway since the character is female, make sure our fullplate is bikini full plate, use the fear handbook: imperious command the charge/attack feat etc
to make your opponents feare- i mean ... "bask in your beauty" ...
your so sexy they just stand there shaking and staring
oh yea that's right ... your rack is way better then the half minos!