Adeon Hawkwood

That is weird. I don't suppose any of you have logs of the trial? I'm sure Arcanaville would like to see them.

If I had to guess, my theory would be that with 3 Illusionists the Phantom Armies were doing to much damage so none of you needed to activate enough powers to count as "participating.

I haven't seen any but I can offer some general advice.

The main decision you'll need to make is what attack powers to use. Since you mentioned this is a Huntsman Build I suspect you'll mostly want to stick with the basic Wolf Spider gun attacks. For AoE damage this is a good choice, the Bane AoE attacks are really weak (except for Crowd Control) so you aren't missing much.

Single target attacks are where you might want to dip into the Bane powers. Taking a few heavy hitting mace attacks can be effective although the double redraw hurts there so I'd generally recommend going all one way or the other, either plan on making the mace your primary single target damage tool or don't bother.

Secondary is a lot simpler. You'll want to take the Bane Spider Armor, all three Tactical Training powers, Combat Training Defensive and Mental Training no matter what. The others are more variable, you should almost certainly skip Wolf Spider Armor and Combat Training: Defensive but the others will depend on what you feel like.

The problem with this is, based on the way range enhancements work in cones I strongly suspect that range enhancement and AoE radius enhancements would be the same thing so allowing for radius enhancements would require them to use the smae enhancement valeus as range enhancements (and for Targeted AoEs would boost both the range and the area).

My experience from getting this is that you really want two things: a team and an attack power that doesn't require a target.

The Hollows spawn sizes are based on team size and unfortunately do not seem to scale with your difficulty. Having a team of four or more makes a LOT more bosses spawn (incidentally, the other team members don't even need to be in zone, they just need to be on the team).

Having an attack of some sort that doesn't require a target (such as a patch power or a PBAoE power) allows you to attack them while they are undergroud without having to use Le Blanc's method of finding a lowbie.

Yes

I tend to agree with this suggestion. Sure, it's not something many people will care about but similarly there is no real purpose to the temps having an expiry time on them. Chances are either you will complete the TF in time or you'll fail it for other reasons. The timer just causes problems for those few who, for whatever reason, don't want to do it all in a similar setting.

I'll also point to the Khan TF as an example of a TF where the "better" option is applied. Each team member gets a Dimensional Grounding Ray with 10 charges despite the fact that you only need 1 charge, total, to complete the TF (baring the occasional bug).

I was referring to a vendor who will buy any loot from you: enhancements, recipes and salvage.

I'll also add that having to zone to access a service isn't the same as having it in zone which kinda breaks your point. Still the critical services for trial running are the inspiration vendor and someone to sell stuff to. If Pocket D had those it would definitely be a viable alternative to the RWZ although I suspect inertia would make people continue to use the RWZ.

Brutes and Scrappers are good out of the gate. Masterminds are also a strong choice but do require a bit more effort and have some rough spots (levels 18-25 are rough for a lot of MM combos). The various Epic ATs are also pretty good soloers to various degrees. Corruptors can be good soloers with specific powersets but tend to mature later than a Brute/Scrapper.

Conduit of Pain does not work (obviously) and pets will not benefit from the recharge buff in Enforced Morale but other than that they work.

What I would really like (but doubt we'll get) for Omega is a "build your own power" slot. Instead of the power being a simple "build this ability and it goes in the slot" system that the other powers have I'd like the Omega power itself to be a tree.

Basically the way I envision it you craft a base Omega power which determines the basic power type and then you build "modifications" which are slotted into the power. Increasing the rarity of the core power would increase the number and variety of slots available to it.

For example there might be three core power trees:
PBAoE Toggle
PBAoE Click
Targeted AoE Click

Within each tree the core/radial divide would be mostly based around the number of different types of slots. I can think of four slot types: buff "slots", damage/debuff "slots", "base attribute" slots and "universal" slots. In general Core would have more total slots but Radial would have a higher proportion of universal slots.

The buff slots would take modifications that provide bonuses to yourself or teammates. Bonuses that only affect you would be stronger than ones that only affect teammates or for the click powers modifications that increase the duration of the buffs.

The damage/debuff slots would take modifications that either damage or debuff the enemies (d'uh!).

Base Attribute slots would do things like decrease the recharge or endurance costs of the power.

Universal slots would take any modification.

Now given how difficult this would be to implement (and how much of a load it would place on the server trying to calculate it) I doubt we'll get it but it would be nice.

Well, apparently June is the "level 50 WST" month.

I would love something like this. Particularly if it came with a couple of good hi-tech backpacks (nothing fancy, just packs with various flashing lights and a few antennas).