PhroX

I prefer the second, though there are a few things I'd tweak. Haven't got mids here, so this is just off the top of my head:

You really don't need hurdle and swift. Either you'll be moving mainly by running, in which case go for the latter, or jumping, in which case go for the former.

Health and Aid Other slotting...put all three uniques in Health and nothing else, don't bother slotting AO unless you've got plenty of free slots. In particular, never put the uniques in there - you'd have to use AO on someone every 120 secs in order to get the bonuses.

TT:Leadership - I'd actually consider dropping this completely, never really found any accuracy problems once I'm slotted up, even with SOs/common IOs. Perhaps take Maneuvers instead, which stacks excellently with TT:M and ML to give your team a big chunk of defense. You can get 3 extra slots from my previous recommendation.

Personally, I love TT:Vengeace. Doesn't need any slotting, and people are always dieing (on a bad team, people die cos they suck, on a good team, people die cos they should be taking insane risks ), so you might as well take advanatge. Maybe take this instead of Hurdle or Swift.

I do this, but it's not so much being used to having a tough tanker. My first high level character was a scrapper. Once I got her IOed out, I played by running ahead of everyone and leaping into the middle of the largest group of enemies I could find.

I now play all other characters, from tanks and brutes to dominators and defenders, in the same way (with a few tweaks - for tanks, I'll taunt stuff that isn't next to me and so on). I usually have at least two debt badges by 20.

Swift will indeed boost your run speed under NR.

However, Hurdle will increase the jumping speed under NR, and, unless things have changed recenctly, jumping around with NR+Hurdle is faster than running with NR+Swift, so that's the way to go if you're looking to skip a travel power.

Slacker

1) Nah, not worth it IMO. If you're having end problems, pop a blue, if you're having def-debuff or enemy THBuff problems, pop a purple. Elude is, IMO, far too situational to really be worth a power slot.

2) Dunno about attack chains (theres a thread a few down from this asking for them which hasn't got any answers yet), but I wouldn't skip either Lunge (your best ST attack - at least in terms of DPA) or Spin (your best AoE attack). Eviscerate is quite nice, but I'd take both those before it.

3) Frankly, as far as I'm concerned, it's not great in either. It'd go off more often in Tactics, but, as you suggest, it's likely to go off when you don't need it. I'm guessing you're after the full set bonus from GSFC, in which case, IMO at least, it really doesn't matter. If you're not going for the bonus, forget about the proc. If you really wanted to find some way of taking advantage of it, then FU would be the way to go, but given that you've gone for BU, I guess you're skipping that, and even then, it's nothing special.

4) I like it. With softcapped def and a single -interrupt IO, I can pretty much always get AS off, and it's a nice boost to my survivability. Dead widows do no damage. But then, I do solo a lot. It's less useful on a team.

Just another one to add: The final VEAT mission.

Now, I know all the VEAT content gets a fair bit of stick, but I didn't mind doing the other arcs. My only real issue with them was the length (or rather, the lack of it). But the final one, well, where do I start?

"Go kill Statesman"
"Why?"
"Cos"

And that's it. You're a total bad***, you've taken down pretty much everything the Rogue Isles and Paragon City can throw at you, you're finally going to go after the big good, and all you get is a single crappy mission with no build up. And a stupid speech about powerset proliferation.

I'd love to see the Patron Arcs redone with the choice on whether you betray them or not using the GR tech. I've always hated the way you're railroaded into doing so. GWs in particular. It's not like she's going to be a threat to me personally, the only reason for betraying her is cos she's trapped the spirit of someone LR has a hard-on for and some Arbiter threatens you. All the chars I've taken through the arc would've stayed loyal to her and told Arbiter what's-his-face where to stick it given a chance.

3 scrappers. Or 4 scrappers. Of any type. Why? Cos scrappers are awesome

You can only activate one power with a single keypress.

How about alternative animations for the "blast" powersets that don't have a projectile? For example, instead of the various Fire Blast powers summoning a ball of flame that you throw, have it so that you make a gesture towards the target, who just erupts into flames.

To be honest, my widow, despite being 50, is still at the "fire off the best power that's recharged" stage

That said, I'd also love to know some attack chains for whenever I get round to IOing her out.