The hotfix was quite a bit smaller and quicker than the V5 update. Seems to run fine so far.
I'm struggling a little bit right now. My 3 toons are all level 7 and have completed most of the same quests and aren't really tremendously viable for solo efforts on the quests in front of them. I'm thinking about building that 4th character so I can do some different quests for a change, but I just don't know what to make.
I kinda want to try a monk, but I'm very leery of spending the turbine points only to find that it isn't as fun as I thought. Other options would be a cleric or paladin, which would be well-suited for solo work. There just don't seem to be enough stat points to build a proper paladin—you need fair scores across the board and good scores in STR, WIS, and CHR. Even with 32 points, I wasn't satisfied when I tinkered a while back. I suppose cleric would be the best choice, but I always seem to play clerics (BG, NWN1, NWN2) and I've got a bad attitude about it. I've heard all sorts of horror stories about soloing rogues, so that appears to be a bad choice. And, just to forestall Corwin, it would be pretty pointless for me to run a squishy—bad for solo and really bad for Mr. Sumo here.
What to do, what to do?
Edit- the other thing I need to do is come up with a better way to plan my character development. My approach of having a "general direction" and then picking feats, enhancements, and skills that seem apprpriate and fun just isn't getting it done. I need to sit down with Peter for an hour and map it out click by click from level 1 to level 20. Are there any online character planners out there that might help? I think that might be part of my growing malaise as well--as a dedicated spreadsheet gamer, it's becoming clear to me that I'm failing dismally in my min/max duties. I really enjoy playing with Peter due to his skill, but a session with him always leaves me a little frustrated since it highlights for me what "proper" character development looks like.
My apologies for the whiny novel.