Well, first off welcome back!
Looks like you're definately on the right track from what your Magelo shows, as far as single groupable upgrades DoD mission arcs are a great way to go. Thats where the great majority of my gear has come from so far, in addition to a couple of DoN items and now starting to add a few PoR drops in there as well .
you can find great info here:
http://samanna.net/gen.info/prog.dod.shtml on all the drops that can be had in the single group DoD missions.
My magelo can give you an idea of what a gear set up might look like after doing alot of the DoD missions.
There are alot of AA advice threads spread about the forums here that can give you an idea of what AA path you can take as well.
The main thing you'll want to get for soloing in 69.1 or any other tough content is the AA located under the PoP abilities tab.
when you debuff a mobs disease resistance, and alot of the time even if you havent debuffed, VP3 will keep a mob locked down for the full 2 minutes a great majority of the time, the recast time also will allow you to keep one mob rooted just about indefinately as you can recast a few seconds before the root breaks assuming it lasts full duration.
One other nice feature of VP is it has a really nice knockback component that can be used as a method of crowd control for single adds while grouping. The knockback is positional based on the direction you are facing when the root lands, and its always fun to see a mob go flying 10 or 15 feet when it lands
Really great for getting mobs out of melee range of yourself or anyone else that gets unwanted aggro.
