I have a WM/Shield Brute at 48 with all the attacks except Bash (which I respec'd out of in the late 20's). Shatter definitely looks cool, its a slower over the head move that brings the hammer down in a big thud. Same animation as Broadsword's Headsplitter if you've ever seen that. Narrow cone attack with a target cap of 5. Shield Charge is pure awesomesauce. Not a lot to the animation, you do a small windup and teleport a short range. Huge aoe radius with very nice damage. Shield Charge has become one of my new favorite attacks in the game.
Crowd Control is another good one. Animation isn't really anything special, you just swing the mace in an arc in front of your from left to right, but it has a 180 degree cone and knockdown
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awesome. 
currently reading: A Mighty Fortress (David Weber)
Sure would be great though if they had it to where there were animations where you would use the hammer in two hands instead of just one. That or they added the maul(a bigger looking model for the warhammer, that used two hands).
Hello there. Still pretty new to the game, but decided to make a brute. I wanted to go with a storyline that involves a valkyrie(my character) that rather than serves Odin, instead serves Hel, daughter of Loki. But, I'd rather not bore you with more of the story, so here goes: I wanted to make a Mace(she's wielding a warhammer)/Shield brute. I'm not caring about tanking or doing "OMGWTFBBQSAUCEAOEPWNAGE damage" as a lot of people today call it. Purely a style character. I love the Jawbreaker, Clobber, Pulverize, and Bash attacks, in their appearance and such. My questions are, do Shatter and Shield Charge have good looking animations, and are there any other powers you guys can suggest that look really good when acquired? I'm in this game for style, so any thoughts would be looked upon with much appreciation.