I think that would be a fun set for brutes 
Would love to see regen ported over as well 
I think I'm gonna use the AE MA to make a "Spines Brute" enemy using the Scrappers Spines/Brutes Secondary, just to look at this, I'm sure it's allready been done.
I've messed around with the AE system and created a SM/nin AV to fight
I have a ss/reg av in one of my arcs. Kills my /sr toons, which makes it more fun.
Willpower has more passive regen than Regen does. Who thought that was a good idea?
Can we get a fix for Energy Melee instead of more new sets?
I'm sure it's been discussed in the past but we had a recent forum purge. The main problem with Spines for Brutes, for me, is the looooong animation times in Spines. Barb Swipe is horrid. Lunge is one of only two attacks in the set with a cast time less than 2 seconds. The second is an AoE that doesn't come until 32. Usually that would mean filling with a power pool attack or two. Boxing maybe. But then you'll be redrawing your spines constantly.
Anyway you'd be highly dependent on incoming attacks for fury generation and maintenance. Some might be ok with that. I suspect many would roll one up with dreams of a new FotM AoE god, get frustrated with the clunky pace of it, and delete it.
I don't see it working unless Barb Swipe got looked at as part of the port.
A Spines/WP brute would be pretty solid. They can take the punishment and like being surrounded so I think they could make it work. And if you take boxing on the way to tough, you can brawl/boxing your way to high fury quickly, then just pretty much stay at high fury by moving from spawn to spawn quickly.
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18 is quills. No worries about slow attacks after that since you are always doing damage.
I would play one.
Spines/Stone Armor 
i dunno. the devs seem determined to limit somewhat how much aoe we get.
i mean brutes were the first non tankers to get fiery melee, and they removed consume when it was given to them. consume would be bloody FANTASTIC and is a far far better power than fire breath.
i bet real money if they ever give brutes spines and claws, they would lose one or more aoe powers.
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Can see it now. Giant rock doing a back flip yelling I AM STALAGMIGHT!!!!!
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i bet real money if they ever give brutes spines and claws, they would lose one or more aoe powers.
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Please let it be Eviscerate! Such a ridiculous and ugly animation. I thought for awhile now that if/when brutes get claws, shockwave and/or Focus will not be ranged attcks...which sucks, but I think it is a more likely change then losing eviscerate. Hope I'm wrong.
As far as spines, I honestly don't ever see Brutes getting them. Spines set has too much range and AoE, long animations, and side effect of slowing enemies attack rate. The whole set would need so much changing it would really be an entirely new set if it was ever proliferated.
Claws brutes, however, would be seckzy.
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I would love to have the Spines Set for a Brute, is there any where on here that this has been discussed or brought up? What do you guys think of Spines as a set for Brutes?