If we could use other handbooks I would take magic initiate to grab a melee cantrip from the SCAG but we can't so I' not sure about taking a feat or further raising str to 16 but the armor prof and str increase to 14 will help to gish it up so far, still expect the pirate to be insulting a lot so vicious mockery and cutting words will see lots of play from my side as well. :P