JD_Gumby

Best option would be to accept that you have holes in your build that may not be possible to cover and use inspirations to cover those holes (Break Frees, in this case). There is no shame in using inspirations - that's what they're there for.

Shooting roots you and kiting isn't always possible in many maps, other than in end rooms.

Oh, well, it's another love-it-or-hate it power and neither side will be convinced that the other is right (much like the Devices or Time Bomb arguments).

Worthless for you, perhaps. On the other hand, my Blasters are loving it. Not every pool power needs to be suitable for every Archetype or combat style, after all, and Whirlwind is very definitely a "Don't wanna melee!" power and quite good at what it does, though it's very expensive.

Only if they're so miserly of desktop space that they can't spare any room for an icon for each game...

Wouldn't even be difficult to justify, either. Just need to throw in some generic Vanguard NPCs, add a portal to the Vanguard base in Grandville, and alter the dialogue of the existing contacts to reflect the fact that operations in the Shadow Shard are now under Vanguard jurisdiction (since they're in charge of defending against extra-dimensional threats).

...which isn't a bad place to be.

Note that the Brute damage scale is only slightly behind the Tanker's. Odds are, after your second swing you'll be outdamaging a Tanker of the same level & set & slotting and will stay waaaaaaaaaay ahead of said Tanker, and probably close to (if not equal or greater) Scrapper levels of damage from the end of the first spawn (assuming 8-person team) until the next time the group stops to rest up for whatever reason.

Haven't done that one since before I19 hit (took about a month and a half off a couple of weeks before the issue), but he was never a Boss for my characters with Bosses off... So, an I19 problem?

Because you get 3-4 new powers that you have to choose - but have no extra slots to put in them (so they have to work on their default slots, unless you sacrifice the slotting of other powers, which is not very effective in most cases).

Not much if you've got a Stalker with you or the other single-target combos go for the Boss/EB of the group. But, of course, many silly people don't seem to mind needing everyone to fire off a few more AoEs each to get the Boss.

...but did not reduce the need to put levelup slots into the Inherent Fitness powers. Therefore choosing Stealth (and slapping an EndRedux in it, probably, especially if your build already has enough Defense powers that you don't need it as an LotG mule) as one of the 3-4 freed up power choices saves you from having to spend an extra slot on your movement power (and thus taking it from somewhere else) for a stealth IO.

Not mine. The compiler I used whined like mad for lack of arguments in main().

I find it very, very useful. Most of my characters that don't have a natural stealth option take Stealth, usually by the time they're level 20. Especially the squishies. Actually, out of 23 or so characters, I can only think of 8 that don't have it or don't have it scheduled to be taken at some point (my AR/Dev, two Illusion Controllers, three Stalkers, my Plant/Storm Controller, and my only Tanker [mainly an oversight on that one that I'm trying to fix]). Not too shabby for a pool, and a power, that has "dampened" usefulness. Not a fan of Invisibility or Phase Shift, by the way. They just don't seem all that useful to me...

Seriously, Concealment is fine as it is and it's just a case of "if you find other options more attractive, use them instead", much like the endless debates over /Devices, Time Bomb, and Dual Pistols.

Actually, /request is only the current zone. It was, I gather, the trade chat before the implementation of the consignment houses.

Shorter than Sonic Attack's Shout (single target, same range, same damage, longer activation than Exe by 0.10s), and I don't hear anyone complaining about that...

To Hell with that. There is no legitimate reason for solo/small-team players to have their progression deliberately slowed that much when their progression will already be crippled by the Incarnate Shard drop rate.