Shaun you lucky so and so. Sounds like great conditions unlike all of use suffering in Melbourne. I get 2-3 really good nights a year in Melbourne, a few hours drive out in the country is a different story, but I work lots of nights and don't/can't get out that much. I sort of did the following in my choices....
I wanted one set of eyepieces to do 2 scopes, 6" f12 Refractor and f4.8 10" reflector. I have young kids so I had a budget, which meant a set of TV Panoptics and Naglers was not on the table. A while back when the US dollar was worth less than 90cents I bought 4 XW's and 3 ES 100º eyepieces .....for 6 months they were nice...BUT....I also binoview and found that cheap eyepieces binoviewed gave me a better view than looking through the XW's. The ES 100's were nice depending on which scope they were in. My other scope is a 100ED f9, the 100's were not good for me in the reflector or 6" refractor. So what to do? In the past I had a few ES 68º eyepieces and really liked them. Many times on Cloudy Nights I had read that they were really close to Panoptics, in fact more than a few prefered them to TV, so I bought a couple and tried them at f4.8 and f12. The result.... beautiful...at 1/3rd the price
Looking at the kids it was clear what to use. Out went the XW's and ES 100's after they sat in the eyepiece draw for 6 months unused. Selling them more than paid for the 68º eyepieces and 4 82's, bought on sale and a couple of bino pairs, 25 and 18 orthos (thanks Flash)
Along the way in the last few years I also had a couple of the Orions. Nice but a bit dark compared to others.
If I was you I'd buy, or borrow and give whatever you want a good try. Quite a few times I have thought an eyepiece that was fab on first try, only to change my mind on subsequent viewings. If the skies the limit...easy spend big, if not ES are the best value IMO.
A bit of a rave
Buy and try, get rid of what you don't like and find what you do like...easy
If I ever move to better sky conditions I'll revisit my choices. Of course the best way to get better views is get a better/ bigger scope!
Matt