Check out Manga's guide in this same forum (It's stickied).
My guides:Dark Melee/Dark Armor/Soul Mastery, Illusion Control/Kinetics/Primal Forces Mastery, Electric Armor
"Dark Armor is a complete waste as a tanking set."
Oh, heh. Thanks. 
There's also currently patch server load issues due to the huge number of people downloading Going Rogue, that may have something to do with it also.
Manga @ Triumph
"Meanwhile In The Halls Of Titan"...Titan Network Working To Save City Of Heroes
Save Paragon City! Efforts Coordination
Ok I've been having this problem, randomly too.
Occasionally, when I get on my iMac Snow Leopard (Which is fully up to date on software updates), I always randomly get this long streak of "Connecting..." numbers.
I waited awhile, hoping it would connect finally, and I came back to it saying, "Connecting #15"
Is there any fix for this? And am I the only one that this happens to?
(Btw, my signal strength is full)