Greetings and salutations entities of Thera. You know, I never know how to start these. So I'll begin with why Solec was created, and some of the Pro's and Con's, then I'll lead onto the Goodbyes.

I created Solec late last year as an explore character. It had been around two years since I played, and around 6-10 since I did any actual exploration. Being that I wanted to explore, I went Def/Def in hopes to get some decent forms (Komodo, Croc, Diamondback). You know, the healy kind. Instead, I ended up getting Armadillo and Mongoose, then spinning Mongoose into Porcupine. In the beginning, it was Hell. I mean, HELL. I couldn't do anything I wanted to do alone, either the forms had changed or they hadnt been upgraded in ways I would have prefered (I'll explain that later). But thanks to a certain someone, I continued on.

At around 200 hours, I had blown almost all of my Con, even the 10 Con I had put trains into. From 200 hours on, I had 7- Con. I'm surprised I lived so long, especially considering my play style.

Shapeshifters: Remove Form Trauma from the game. Or give Shapeshifters an Edge that reduces the damage or lag (lag prefered). I died more to Form Trauma screwing me over then I think anything else. I will not play another Shapeshifter while this mechanic is still in play. It makes life too stressful.

Armadillo: I'll be blunt. I ####ING hate retract. You have no idea how many times I died to the 2 round lag from reverting from retracted Dillo and wording. I had Armadillo back in the mid 90's and it was an awesome duckout form. Sure, it didn't have deflection (which is amazing), but you also weren't walking down the road and get raped by 2 DEMOLISH deathblows in the first round.

Porcupine: We had a love/hate relationship. I had Porcupine with Delromsin. Back then, It would do DEMOLISH/DEVESTATE damage to even resisted ragers. My biggest WTF moment was 'Your quills grazes Boggom.'

Manticore: So many people complained about this form. It had 2 major turn off buttons that made it useless. Only one person ever continually put those into effect. But yea. Manticore... MMMM. I had some awesome dreams.

Forms in General: 'Love and hate, get it wrong, she cut me right back down to size'. It took me around 400 hours to actually be able to use these form to any positive effect. But in the end, I think it worked out better then any other combination I could have had.

Shapeshifter Edges: I believe the only 'Shapeshifter Edge' I took that was worth it, was Ricochete Skin. And from reading what they do, and experiencing some. They are far inferior to other classes. Made me kinda sad.

All in all. Through joy and frustration. Solec of WillowWood was my favourite character to date.

Goodbyes will be on a seperate thread.