Glad to hear the lover for WM. It gives me hope. I've played a WM/Elec brute to 11th level, and found the END drain to be pretty frustrating (in tandem with the high whiff factor). Jawbreaker and Clobber just clean me out. Is this something I just have to tolerate until I get Stamina?
Brutes perform best with sets that have fast cast times and fast recharge times so you can form a good attack chain. The problem with Mace and Ax is that they do alot of big damage, but are slow. The cast times are all a bit long and the recharge times are really long. To top it off they are very endrueance heavy to compenstae for the big damage they do.
I put about a billion Inf into an Ax/Wp and Mace/WP brute on test server to get a bunch of endurance help and globle recharge. Even all IO'd out it just seemd slow and sluggish and used too much endurance for my liking.
I'm not sure if this is why other people aren't crazy about them, but that was my persoanl experience.
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Glad to hear the lover for WM. It gives me hope. I've played a WM/Elec brute to 11th level, and found the END drain to be pretty frustrating (in tandem with the high whiff factor). Jawbreaker and Clobber just clean me out. Is this something I just have to tolerate until I get Stamina?
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I have a wm/stone and a axe/will brute for the most part all brutes suck wind till you get Stamina and slotted with SOs. I would use things attacking me to build fury more then through attacks. I also slotted my attacks with acc and endrance reducers before stamina. Fury will take care of your damage till you can get stamina slotted. It is almost like a brand new brute once you have stamina and damage enhancers in your attacks you hit harder and last longer.
I do faceplant alot though since I herd groups to spike my fury. With elec armor atleast you can just find some Mu to build your fury sicne they will hardly hurt you and there endrance drain should not effect you. I will be honest been many months since I leveled my elec/elec brute.
I love axe (even with the redraw, and can see it in fights sometimes.. heck had it anchor me once due to lag) and WM
SCTHUNK!!! as you cleave into your enemies chest with the axe.
FWUMPP!! as bash dudes skull in.
Very brutish sets and lotsa fun