I'm there so far
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Yeah, its just not going to happen. Most Positional set bonuses are in the sixth slot. It's just not going to happen.
To put it in perspective, you start out with 0 defense as a FA brute. Taking Stealth, Maneuvers, Combat Jumping and Weave and ED slotting them for defense, then adding Agility Core and finally the two +3% def IOs as well as the Gaussian's set bring you to: 23% def to all. (Which you need hasten irrc for your attack chain, stealth gives +3.24% which is what you will prolly drop for hasten). This means you still need 22% defense to melee and range. Most bonuses are 6 slots for 3% defense to one or the other. You would need (baring my math skills are flawed) around 16 set bonuses, 8 for melee, 8 for range (3%*8 = 24 which would give you 47%. You could possibly do 7 for each bonus and be slightly under the soft cap.) 16 bonuses with the average slot needed as being 6 = 96 slots would be needed. And 16 powers. FYI, you only have 24 powers and 67 + the initial 1 slot in each power, giving you 91 slots total. But wait, you spent 20 slots already for your defense powers + Gaussian's.
:/ anywho I digress. Its impossible.
Your character does not have capped defense. Depending on your AT the cap is between 175% - 225%. Your defense is not teal in the combat window, it can go higher. STOP SAYING IT IS CAPPED! The correct term is Soft Cap.
I enjoy playing in Mids. I specialize in Melee Characters, other AT's usually bore me.
Nice to know, thank you. I'm not much a soloer tho, well I can definately solo as good as many ATs but I wouldnt like to build for pure solo giving up too much dps or versatility anyways. For some reason I face less troubles running DA +4*8 with my SS/FA than with my DM/SD Scrapper who is suppose to be some kind of solo-king.
The reason I dont build for S/L is that on the new Incarnate stuff S/L is nearly exotic. If I can break 30% melee/range it gives me a good margin. At least I'm not 100% sure to die in one animation when facing a Psy boss.
If you can take a look at the build over to see if you have any advice, tweak to optimise defense or damage (more procs less haste?), I'll be happy 
I'm toying around with Mids but I cannot reach my goal. I'm trying to be as close as possible to Mele/Ranged def soft cap (yeah not S/L) and to be able to run Burn/gloom/hay/kob/gloom/hay rotation.