AnElfCalledMack

When this bug first turned up, it was only for some archetupes. What did you notice this on?

One other comment on the AoE. If you're looking for E/N defense, consider three Oblits and three Cleaving Blows. It's one of the most efficient ways to get E/N set bonuses in six slots.

Well, tanking Ghost Widow without spinning around and getting wailed on means softcapped Ranged or Negative Energy defense - that hold is Mag 100, so if it lands, it's going to hold you. That means you're going to want some defense in your primary.

Shield Defense is very easy to do that on, and also has a teleport-nuke and a healthy damage buff for zone PvP.

Invulnerability isn't that hard to soft-cap to E/NE, and has very good S/L resistance into the bargain along with Dull Pain, a great HP boost. Players do a lot less S/L damage than NPCs, but it's still going to be noticeable.

Ice is easier to softcap than Invuln, but has no S/L resist and a bit of a hole to Fire. Does have a DP clone and two aggro auras, though, so you should be able to hold aggro no problem. Surviving it may be something of another matter.

Willpower has the opposite problem. Its survivability is great (defense, resistance, regeneration and max HP are all available in useful amounts), but you're going to have to work on holding aggro with your secondary, because RttC, while very useful for survivability, has a weak taunt component. You can still tank for a team, but it's a lot more active - keep taunting, attacking, and using AoEs as much as you can.

And, of course, Dark Armor. With substantial investment, you can have a Dark tanker capped to S/L/E/N, along with very healthy resistances and Dark Regeneration for a quick refill. Once capped, probably has the best performance against Ghost Widow, thanks to the very high Negative resistance in the set. Mez auras will help you hold aggro for the team, but Cloak of Fear can cause some serious End problems, and Oppressive Gloom tends towards causing scatter, which some AoE heavy teams would rather avoid. All manageable, but also in some need of management.

Otherwise, I'm going to need the rest of that post to help. It seemed a bit... abrupt towards the end.

Step 1: Remove all the Fitness powers from your build. The last issue made them available as inherent powers, but Mids still lets you select them so you can load up or make builds for characters that haven't been respecced in I19. Once you remove all the Fitness powers, all four should pop up in the "Inherent Powers" section down the bottom.

Step 2: Consider what each power is doing for you. Fire's secondary effect is a small Damage Over Time (DOT) component. Power Boost doesn't affect this, as it doesn't boost damage. It just increases the knockback on Power Thrust and the duration of stuns on your other melee attacks.

Step 3: Take some new powers. Look seriously at Rain of Fire. Yes, it causes scatter. It also causes phenomenal damage, and you can even use the fact that mobs avoid the rain to your advantage - drop Rain of Fire over yourself, and no-one will want to melee you. Consider Flares. Blasters can use their first two attacks in their primary even while mezzed, and it can be useful in building a Defiance buff. Look at the Medicine pool. Aid Self can be very useful, and Aid Other never hurt. Or maybe Leadership - Tactics could let you slot your attacks 1 Acc/3 Dam with End and Rech to taste, while Assault gives you even more damage, or Maneuvers gives a little defense (a better idea if you're building for defense with IOs). If you're having trouble with endurance, grab Conserve Power to keep you from bottoming out.

Step 4: Steal some slots. Swift really isn't a great run speed buff. Three-slotting it really isn't doing you that much good. Rest every 150 seconds may not be essential, either, but I don't know how you play. Travel powers don't really need Endurance Reduction, since it makes more sense to switch to Hover and Combat Jumping in combat. Speaking of which, Hover and Combat Jumping don't need Endurance Reduction either - they're both quite cheap (CJ extremely so), and it's your attacks that are flooring your blue bar. Acrobatics really doesn't need knockback slotting - thanks to the way it's set up, it provides magnitude 9 knockback protection, and three-slotted it goes up to magnitude 11. Both of these will work against 99% of knockback effects in normal content. If you want more protection, look into the Karma: Knockback Protection and Steadfast Protection: Knockback Protection IOs. While slotted, these enhancements give you an additional 4 points of KB protection. My Fire tank runs Acrobatics and one Steadfast -KB IO. She gets knocked down very, very rarely.

Also, you might want to look into frankenslotting (the use of Set IOs to get enhancement numbers, rather than set bonuses) or even slotting set bonuses. It's a great way to address accuracy and endurance issues without completely ignoring damage and recharge.

Okay, a couple of quick pointers. You have Aim, so slotting Build Up for To-Hit Buff is probably unneccessary. And importantly, at level 50, a single Fly Speed SO will put you above the fly speed cap, so it doesn't really need addtional slots. This should let you slot up Fire Blast a little more.

As far as the situation goes, the Holtz/Honoree fight is quite difficult. It's apparently quite possible to snipe-pull the bosses one at a time, but even so they're quite powerful. If you have some Vanguard Merits, consider getting a Cursebreaker to remove the Curse of Exhaustion that Holtz uses - it effectively cuts your blue bar in half for five minutes, which will make an already difficult fight much harder. Stock up on Break Frees for the Honoree. His melee attacks have a high chance to stun, and it doesn't take him long to finish off a stunned opponent.

Also, consider running some more normal content to get back in the swing of the character. You're probably still a bit rusty, and you're taking on the toughest content in the game that the devs intended us to solo. With a bit of practice, it could become a lot easier.

General consensus is that Defenders do better out of Sonic Attack than Corruptors. That extra debuff looks small, but it stacks up pretty quickly. On any team, you're going to have five instances of the debuff up fairly quickly (Sonic Siphon, Disruption Field, and just blasting for a three-stack) and 25% more damage across the entire team is going to be very significant. Scourge is nice, but it's not 25% of your damage nice unless you have scourging rain powers, which Sonic doesn't.

Yep. Common boosts give roughly 9% in an ED-capped power. The uncommon goes up to about 14% due to the larger ED-exempt portion.

Stalkers do less damage than Scrappers against a single target. Sometimes. Scrappers have a 1.125 damage scalar for melee attacks. Stalkers, just a 1.00. With a 10% chance to crit (I'm assuming you don't need to ST down minions), the Scrapper has an effective 1.2375 damage scalar. The Stalker, on the other hand, is 1.1 + 0.03 per ally in range. With 4 or less melee allies, the Scrapper comes out better. 5 or more friends within 30 feet, and the Stalker wins out. Of course, the more melee allies you have, the less support that tends to come with it - apart from kins, most buffers like to keep their distance - and then the Stalker's lower hit points becomes more of a liability.

So, the answer to "do Stalkers or Scrappers have better ST damage?", the answer is a resounding "it depends".

Well, Fiery Assault works fairly well with Earth Control. Earth has very good lockdown from range, but is a little light on damage. Fire gives you great ranged damage, and is still good in melee once the spawn's safely locked down. Earth and Thorns would also be good secondaries - Earth for a bit of KD for extra mitigation (not that you'll need it), and Thorns for the AoE damage to go with your AoE controls.

Actually, many Spines attacks and Mud Pots from Stone Armor take Slow sets, as does the Bane Spider's Web Cocoon. Don't even need Epics.

Destriana
DEH-stree-ah-nah.

Most of the rest of them are straightforward, though. I just started off with the demoness.