Chosing a chacacter class for the oc is the hardest part of the game, I put more thought into that than at anything the game would later actually throw at me. I like pure casters best, but since you're going to be the group leader, you'll draw a lot of attention from hostiles - so you had better make sure to keep yourself buffed up with protection spells at all times. Keeping those going can become tedious real quickly. If you, on the other hand, decide to go for some tank kind of guy, don't expect to do much with your main char. He'll be in the front lines sticking steel into people's faces, which clearly is a bonus.
A cleric seems to be the real deal, actually - he'll be able to wear some real protection, still has plenty of protection and buff spells at his disposal, and especially at later levels becomes an ungodly nuke machine that rivals any wizard. For MotB, there's some kind of cleric special class that relies on charisma for their casting. Since social stats actually mean something now and again in motb, that's definitely not a bad class to roll with.
I still can't help imagining how much more fun experementation with classes would be in a turn based enviroment, where you could actually position your guys and really play with their abilitys and tactical options.
On a last side note: If you play with any difficulty level that includes friendly fire, make sure you don't let your sorcerers learn anything that does serious AOE damage. Fuckers don't have the sense to notice that they're toasting your frontline guys, too.
DU, as for your bandwith whoes, may I suggest you try this (shareware) utility:
<a href="http://www.cfos.de/index2_e.htm">Cfos speed</a>
It does some serious traffic shaping from a driver level. I have no problems basically leaving huge up-/downloads runing in the background while cfos makes sure that I still get all the internetspower I need to surf the web or even play online games with good ping.
