Requirements:
Moderately self-healing
Khopesh (got a bunch lying around)
Reasonably not gimp
Fun to play
Preferably not human or helf (got enough of those).

At first I was toying with a HOrc 18rgr/2brb, before I realized that the feats just don't work. Toyed with going 15/3 and 2 fighter levels, but I was approaching the point of excessive multiclassing that tends to bring leveling problems (and possible gimpiness once MOTU hits). I'm currently thinking about a fighter halfling with dragonmarks, maybe with a 2 monk splash? Might go rogue instead, monk only makes sense for in between fights swapping out the khopeshes to use fire stance/jidz with one of the dragonmarks. Rogue UMD is always nice.

Thoughts? Any preferable TWF characters? I'm trying to veer clear of paladins, since I've already got a couple and I'm sick of making so many feat sacrifices. Pure ranger might make sense, but I'd need to go human to fit in khopesh proficiency, and I'm getting kinda tired of playing so many humans/helfs.

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The last go around I did with my twf'ing dwarf was 18/2 Ranger/Fighter. 
The fighter levels gave me enough feats to fit in the quicken/maximize line, and it was a definite life saver on occasion.  You wouldn't want to try and be a main healer that way, but it basically gave me the equivalent of 10-12 lay on hands.

It'd be hard to fit the khopesh feat in that way however, since you said you were trying to avoid another human build.

Monster build. SF Pots.

ETA:If you wish, you can forgo the 2 monk levels and instead do 2 Rogue levels for full UMD, although 2 monk and a high AC will mitigate most damage, while high heal amp from going Human/HElf will allow wand whipping to work quite well.

Monster build?  Good luck getting any fucking AC on that.

I'm kinda baffled by what you want. TWF with khopesh, but you want some self-healing, but you don't really like rangers...what do you want?

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The halfling dragonmarks are almost totally useless without being able to fit in a metamagic feat to give them enough ooomph to heal up an end game character.

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See . . . Humans and helfs are the master races right now regarding TWFing.  Excluding them is problematic.

The Damage boost from HV and haste-boost right now is just so good and 99% of the fights we have these days are short enough that you'll have enough boosts to rip things to shreds.

Also goes along with "moderately self hjealing" . . . racial healing amp of human/helf is huge in this regard.   If you're healing yourself with lesser spells (like a ranger/bard's CSW) and heal-scrolls healing amp pays off greatly.  My pally and ranger can both CSW for 200-250 and this just wouldn't happen without the racial healing amp they get from being human.

Helves angel is good, Monster build but helf is good as well.  Cleric Dilly until you can get either Silver Flame or enough real UMD for hjeal-scrolls then switch to rogue dilly for high DPS.

The "Blender" build is also good for this, Fighter 12/rogue 7/Monk 1.  Human as a dilly doesn't do much for you.

From what was leaked in the ENH thread it looks like rangers are getting some love, who knows Tempest III might be good again.

Don't forget pure rogues, you can put out a stupid amount of damage even with the forts all getting increased.  Human again is the best race as the HV damage boosts also affect sneak attack. Assassination is also ubber.

But honestly  Silver Flame pots as so brokenly over-powered that ANYTHING can be self-sufficient with 400 Silverflame favor.  Fighter 20, barb, 20, don't matter.  I don't like having them as my only means of healing as the 50% reduction in movement speed has lead to them getting me killed more often than saving my ass but they are great when you have no other options.

it's a question of what is the most fun for you, there are many good options.

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I was doing the traps in epic chains of flames on my (now kinda shelved) exploiter.  However, it was an ac halfling build, and I'd needed to go for a 16 starting int to get all the skills I needed plus intimidate.  So it's not something I'd recommend for current content.

Yah my exploiter has the same Int skills DT as well as epic Time Sensing Goggles.  When I've run epics with her, there was always someone more qualified to be trapper and I didn't want to jack shit up. 

Maybe not what you want, but it is what I am currently running my Pally as.

14/4/2 Pally Fighter Monk

Pally for self healing, DoS2, DF, Zeal, resists etc.

Fighter for 3 feats, haste boost2

Monk for even more feats, evasion.

I am running it without ac, mainly as my fun DPS for Epic. HV4+ HB2 is pretty decent.
13 Feats lets me fit in Max, Extend, Quicken, OTWF.

Self buff To Hit maxes at +58 with Khopesh when using Epic Specs and EGoMF+ fens goggles.

It kites meteor throwing reavers, tanks with shield mastery, head hunts casters etc.
48str, +39ref save, 800+hp tanking etc.

It's fun, survivable and can get back to 18/2 with +5 Heart of Wood. Which I am doing soon.

Anyway just another idea. Most melee that have haste boost + HV+khopesh are going to be decent DPS with boosts active I think (given the usual DPS feats).