Ah, some of this information is new to me. With your current party composition I was under the impression most of the major roles were covered. I don’t recall seeing Safia doing much healing in the time I’ve been reading the thread, but if that is something you feel the party needs, my current proposed character doesn’t fill that role.
When I went about proposing my character to the GM, I was under the impression that there were two melee characters, Raun and Gorkhan. Grit is built to be melee-centric as well? With the inclusion of your pet, that does make for some busy front lines.
My proposed class choices were fighter, inquisitor, wilder, and I asked for GM approval for soulknife, which was denied. Inquisitor was ruled out simply because a templar wouldn’t mesh with the current party desires/goals. So, initially I was going to go for a dwarven fighter, but felt it was too plain for Dark Sun, so DM suggested the battle wilder archetype, which gives the wilder some melee buffs/abilities. I was building this character to be a mobile dual-wielder with some buffing capability. The wilder is a charisma-based psionic class, similar to the oracle. Where the oracle has it’s curse, the wilder has it’s focus on strong emotions: love, fear, lust, revenge, etc. It’s psionic focus is based on the rush of raw emotion. It’s on d20pfsrd which I would link to you, but it is blocked here at work. As is the battle wilder archetype.
The bottom line is I most certainly want to complement the current party makeup, so I welcome suggestions on classes/builds that you guys would be interested in having added to the group. I tend to play martial characters (both melee and ranged) and this was going to be my first foray into psionics. One class that I think would fit both of our needs quite well is the warpriest playtest class, but obviously that would require GM approval. So please share your thoughts and let me know what you are looking for and I am more than willing to work together with all of you to build a character that both I would enjoy playing and would benefit the group. Maybe I can play a wilder as a party face/battlefield control build, which from what I’ve read they excel at.
EDIT: My apologies, I wrote this post right before I left work and must've had the page up when you referred me to the recruitment thread. All of this information still applies, though. If anyone wants to PM me their thoughts, I'd be fine with that as well.