Fire/SS is beast mode for pvp. Tanks are kinda rough in the beginning, but as your resists get better and your aoe attacks get better you will begin to like em more
Frostburnt,
I will tell you Fire/SS is a tanker of a different color. Whether or not you will enjoy your tank depends on why you made him in the first place. More so than any other tank, this combo can DEAL OUT THE DAMAGE, but is more frail than other tanks in the game. Once you get rage (lvl 28 I believe) your attacks will hit much more often and do an additional 80% damage. With hasten and some solid IOs, it is easy to have rage double stacked fairly often resultsing in +30% to hit and +160% damage. Team that up with the new change to burn (mobs dont run in fear) and footstomp, you get an AOE nightmare that even scrappers get jealous of. Unlike most tanks, you can fill a damage slot effectively on a team as well as a tanking slot. My Fire/SS regularly farms +3/8 missions (although he is fully IOd). If you like to solo with your tank, the damage boosts from Rage and your AOEs will make quick work of your missions and leave you grinning. However, if you made your tank with the intent of standing in a group of 15 mobs and laughing at them while they whack at you feebly, your better off making an Stoner or Invuln as Healing flames is not enough to deal with the incoming damage even when IOd. If I know I'm going into a really hairy mob, a single Luck will soft-cap melee defense and its easy to come by. Now leap into that same set of 15 mobs, quickly hit Fiery Embrace, burn, and Footstomp then simply clean up whatever bosses are left (the LTs and Minions are all twiching and smoking on the floor). The beauty is these powers recharge fairly quickly, and you can do this combo every 10 seconds or so IOd. Damage bliss. 
Here is my build - it a hybrid built for melee defense and +recharge, and I am very happy with it. (the hold is for those damn Malta sappers, but can easily be replaced by Temp Protection or Rise of the Phoenix...)
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Thank you both for replying and I checked out your build, very nice indeed. It's given me a better idea of where to go with this build. I highly and greatly appreciate it.
My pleasure. If I can be of any further assistance, look me up on Freedom. My Global is Medyc, I am on Freedom server and usually play in the evenings Pacific time.
I built a fire/ss tank for Praetoria and i'm lvl 16 now. I'm really starting to dislike him and was wondering if anyone out here had some advice that may possibly help keep my interest in this build.