Hey just really decided to look at this thread!
I love guitars, but at the moment I love the guitar FX/amp sims more than the strings themselves (could be mainly due to the fact left my guitar in Ausi when I came here).
Recently I have been shopping around for some new FX. I have VF1 and a SE70 (actually 2 SE70s at the moment) and I have just ordered a VOX Tonelab to try out.
I was thinking about getting a Line6XT or GTpro (I still will get the GTpro one day), but I wanted something for clean realistic amp sounds with heaps of dynamic control - the VOX won out as it's gain stages are tube driven, but it still uses digital amp/cabs. Also the fact that these things are so damn cheap here helped.
I use GuitarRig two as well - infact I run it standalone on my old DAW because I like it that much. It's just after buying the SE70s (which have real analogue distortion) I remembered (since not bringing any pedals from home with me) that having more expressive tones the harder or softer I play is important. This lead me to trying the VOX - will let you guys know how it goes after I play with it for a while.
Long live the AMP sims!