Rudra

Not sure where you got this from, but please don't misconstrue something I said. I have no interest in trying to get the other ATs to also get crits.

Some advice on flying that may help you: When using any flight power without Hover, before you finish reaching your destination, typically just as you reach it, move in the opposite direction you were flying. It helps break your drift. So normally that would mean briefly hold the back key since you would most likely be using forward movement. Don't keep holding the back key, just like a second or so is enough to counter drift.

My stance on the matter is simple: If you want flight with excellent flight control, then you take the Flight pool. Support types don't need Rune of Protection to survive. Absolutely none of my characters have Rune of Protection. It is only available for one minute at a time with a recharge of three minutes that ignores any and all recharge effects. So you will always have at least two minutes of it not protecting you no matter what you do. And for those two minutes of no Rune of Protection, you can easily have either gotten orange and light purple inspirations to protect you for that same one minute duration or made orange and light purple inspirations from the inspiration drops you got to do the same thing. Hardly critical to any character's survival.

I typically find myself using Sweeping Cross when I hit Combo 3, and only instinctively defaulting to Spinning Strike when I am surrounded. Except, Spinning Strike does nothing for being surrounded. So my preference would be for it to be a PBAoE. However, I also favor the retention of established powers in their current form for those players that like and use them the way they are. So while I would prefer Spinning Strike was a PBAoE, I am not going to push for it. That was the purpose behind my short comment above. I support Spinning Strike being a PBAoE, but am not going to advocate for it.

Yes, you can walk up to Mr. Bocor at level 5 and he will immediately start giving you missions without needing an introduction. (Edit: Mr. Bocor was how I got to level 6.) I only do Angelo Vendetti's badge mission through Ouroboros, and he needs an introduction to access to the best of my knowledge, so no idea on him.

Spinning Strike is a TAoE with a required target of Foe (Alive) to function. How would that macro even work?

As stated in the OP, when we got her to the next contact introduction window with both Efficiency Expert Pither and Shadow Spider, there was no Tavish Bell on her new contacts window. Neither Efficiency Expert Pither nor Shadow Spider should be on her inactive contacts list yet. Neither was continued after getting the next contact introduction, which failed to give Tavish Bell. (Edit: And for reference? I had not completed Efficiency Expert Pither's content either when he introduced me to Tavish Bell. So it isn't failure to complete content either.)

Okay, so this is a wiki problem, not a game problem, unless the wiki is right and Billie should be talking to me. Anyway, according to the wiki, Billie Heck is a level 5-9 contact. My current Stalker is a level 5, almost level 6. I just completed a Mayhem and Drea the Hook introduced me to Billie Heck. And Billie won't talk to me except to say I'm too low level, I need to be level 6 for his content. I don't know where else to post this, so I'm posting it here. Maybe whomever is maintaining the wiki will read this and fix that. Maybe the devs will go "Wait, he's supposed to be a level 5-9 contact!" and fix Billie. Either way, I'm just trying to let someone that may be able to fix one or the other know.

A friend of mine and I are getting ready to do Erin West's arc and are going to do the Tavish Bell arcs as part of the set up. We're both level 50 and Tavish Bell is listed as a level 45-50 contact on the wiki, and his content is available under the level 50 popdown in Ouroboros. Problem is, while I have Tavish Bell as a contact and he is giving me missions, she does not. He won't talk to her at all, he is not listed on her active contacts window, and he is not listed on her inactive contacts window. So we ran some papers and then the Mayhem, with no luck for getting him as a contact for her. Then we ran content for Efficiency Expert Pither and Shadow Spider to get him as a contact for her. And he did not show up as a choice for her Rogue aligned MM for either of them. (And it can't be her being Rogue alignment, because I am also Rogue alignment and was when I got him as a contact.) Now we are running the Vernon von Grun content to unlock Abyss and hope to get her Tavish Bell as a contact that way. However, except for running the Efficiency Expert Pither content, I didn't have to do any of this to get Tavish Bell as a contact. So while she wants to see if we can get Bell for her through Abyss, I felt this needed to be reported.

Whoopsie yourself. October 31st is tomorrow. For an event that started back at (near?) the start of the month. If you have a request for the event to be changed, it will need to be considered for next year. Deal with it. Edit: As a reminder, the devs are unpaid volunteers working on the game in their spare time. It's Halloween. Most likely, the devs have their own Halloween events to deal with for themselves and/or their families. And asking for something to be changed the day before it is desired, or even a week before in the actual OP's case, is a ridiculous request for even a full time paid dev team to bother with.

Where are you getting your information? Or is this just a guess? The event is already going on. A bit late to think about implementing changes to it for this year.

Short comment: this is something I support.

Or just go to the attuned enhancements on the menu?

It's center of effect is your target in melee range, not you. That means the power should be taking targeted AoE enhancements because it is centered on the target, again, not on you. This was told to you twice before. The effect is not centered on you, so it is not a PBAoE, so it should not be taking PBAoE enhancement sets. That is all targeted AoE enhancement means, an enhancement set to buff an AoE power whose center of effect is your target, not your character. A power does not need to have an effect of 40-60 feet away for it to be a power that uses targeted AoE enhancements. It only needs to be an AoE effect power whose center is not you.

Homecoming has six servers. With Excelsior being fairly heavily populated (it routinely goes red) and Everlasting being fairly robustly populated. And we have multiple self-declared soloists like me just on the forums, so who knows how many in the game. The likelihood of a player being a random stranger to most of the player base is likely quite higher than you seem to think.