I took SS/Dark because i like SS and i was sick of what happened to INV that i wanted something else. The other reason for dark is that i thought it would be cool for a tanker so of course i had to try it on my Brute. I had one SS/Dark in Beta and got to 12 nicely but not as fast as i did in this last weekend. Go Brute squad.
I will also want to try a Dark/INV for fun and then a SS/INV because i have to.
Pinnacle
Arch light L50 INV/SS
Psiberia L50 Kin/Psi
Screaming Mentallica L50 Sonic/MM
Infinity
Arc Voltinator L50 SS/Elec
Mind Fire Kinesis L50 Fire/Kin
Flaming Screamer L50 Fire/Sonic
If my eyes did not deceive me, I didnt see anyone out there with a Fire/Stone brute.
I did it because he is concept toon to be the archvillain to my primary Ice/electric blaster. 2 aliens from another world brought here by the rikti, who distroyed their home planet. You would think they would get along.
No siry bob, they are back at their old way, Night Frost, trying to stop Chared Ash cold in his tracks, while Chared Ash is trying to burn Night Frost into submission.
DM/EA. Want to try something new. EA is not too bad. But it too bad you need DO/SO to make it shine. Umm that an hint devs
Dark/Invuln.
I liked it in Beta and while I'm no Tank, it's a nice combo of Tanker and Scrapper. I still take Point in my teams and enjoy that aspect of protecting the team ... and I love Fury. 
Dark has the self-heal, which is why I like it, keeps me active and on the edge of my seat ... because honestly, as an Invuln ... you're not getting much help from your Secondary except mez protection or Invincibility. And until you get Invincibility ... it's almost worth leaving off your Invuln powers and saving the endurance. I can't deal with the obscuring graphics of Fire and Dark, and Energy is just Defense anyway ... so I figured I'd go Invuln, at least it's got Dull Pain as an emergency heal.
Stone/Fire. I love the extra oomph the Stone Melee attacks have, and Fire Armor has some cool graphics and damage auras. I spend endurance like crazy, though. Hopefully it will improve a bit once I get Stamina and add some endurance SOs.
The stone mallet give my clown the bonking power to do the job. Dm take's care of the killing while everything else is recharging. That plus it's fun to see enemy's go flying.
Stone/Fire here also.
I rolled an DM/EA in beta and liked it, but haven't made the live version yet. I will get around to him once my Dominator's lvling slows down to a crawl in the late 20's 
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But I did make an EM/FA brute to run with a friend, who also made the same type, and we were burning through missions once he got the hang of SMASH! 
Dark/Dark 
Energy/Dark - Up to 7. I stopped when I got her to Cap, and then started playing alts.
SS/Invuln - this one's up to 15, but I only started her yesterday.
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I have a DM/EA, he is level 21 now....had a level 31 DM/EA brute on beta and a level 25 EM/REG stalker on beta and I liked both.
But I plan on rolling a few more Brutes...and a some Stalkers.
Vax
To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.
Since my primary was an Inv/SS tanker, I made my villian the evil mirror of him, So he is SS/Inv.
Tho I have no delusion who would win in a fight.
Nemsis lv50 Inv/SS
Arch-Nemsis lv 50 SS/Inv
SS/Inv for me too.
To me it's all about character concept. Nothing else worked for the Bicep, steroid abusing body-builder that he is.
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Energy/Dark - Up to 7. I stopped when I got her to Cap, and then started playing alts.
SS/Invuln - this one's up to 15, but I only started her yesterday.
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Jeez Kali, do you work at all? You post a ton and you play a lot, man I wish I had more free time...
Sucka Punch
DM/INV
I think this combo was FTOM about this time last year on CoH. Never tried it there though. Gonna give it a whirl here.
Danimal - SS/DA. Mostly because I've never played either set to a significant level, and DA seemed as good a secondary as any for a supernaturally powered wolfman thingy.
I love my Dark/Dark! Having access to self-heals and endurance recovery powers is very useful to maintaining a constant and continuing level of SMASH.
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Energy/Dark - Up to 7. I stopped when I got her to Cap, and then started playing alts.
SS/Invuln - this one's up to 15, but I only started her yesterday.
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Jeez Kali, do you work at all? You post a ton and you play a lot, man I wish I had more free time...
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It takes like two hours to get a Brute to 7th level. It takes a bit longer to get to 15, but we're still talking about the weekend.
And yeah, most of my free time is spent online. This is largely due to living in a rural area, and largely finding interactign with people online to be more entertaining than watching television.
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Dark/Dark Having a blast on it to. Still trying to decide which travel power.
Topeka is fire/energy on Freedom, because Fire pretty
Barnacle Betty is superstrength/stone on Liberty, cause stone armor looks like a barnacle infestation
Angryman is dark/fire on Protector, cause 2 health attacks and 2 end attacks
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Those three, 9 OTB (Other than Brute), and 65 "Heroes"
I made and Energy Melee/Energy Aura brute. Got it upto 11 so far. I'm liking it alot except I seem to get hit quite abit for a defense set.
Wrath of Shadow, Stone/Dark. Got him to 24 in beta and loved every second of it. Seismic Smash on a full fury bar is joygasmic.
I seemed to pick one that is picked few and far between. I went for stone/invul. I love the damage stone does, a couple of recharge redux really speeds up the process. Invul is the lazy mans secondary, half the powers are inherent and cost no end. I can solo missions at lvl 24 in 10 min flat and they do not touch me. Oh Stamina is a must for a brute, can not live without it. GOTTA LOVE THE SMASH.
SS/DA for my first on Live.
Played Dark/Stone in Beta, and will play both sets again soon, probly as DM/EA and Fire/Stone.
My wife just started playing and choose EM/FA - Flaming Death Cakes!!
I am tempted to play Stone Melee soon too......
-K
Stone/Fire, in honor of my now-deleted tanker.
I like this one better.