Whee, too bad i deleted my EA brute. Maybe I will make another one now. I have kind of fallen in love with my damage aura from /Fire, though. 
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Nearest thing I have to an escape power is desperately hitting one person to try and pound a green out of them before I go down Once I have my Fury I dont care where my health bar is - I'm fighting!
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So true. Sometimes I get so into it I am genuinely surprised when I die because I've been watching the fury bar instead of the health bar.
Brutes should be renamed beserkers
The shield improvement was very nice
A even lvl minion now hit me obout 1/5 of the atacks , compared to about 1/3 before the patch !
This test was done with kinetick shield only , 3 sloted with +3 SO's , vs a family minion that used kick, brawl and boxing , on 100 atacks i was hit 20 times , that makes for about 30% defence vs S/L !
not bad at all
I think people are being a bit harsh on En/Ea brutes. Ive had no trouble soloing +1s and 2s. Total Focus with buildup and a high fury is nearly a 1 hit against lts, and I just hit 20 with her last night so thats without SOs.
Im building this char for PvP. What more could you need when every attack can disorient. I dont have figures cos I dont believe in number crunching but i can definitely see a lot of dizzy enemies when im fighting. The stealth seems to give a good Def boost even after youve started attacking and I can pound away all day with barage and energy punch with 2-3 toggles on and barely see my end drop.
I feel its a good char to play, not the easiest in the world but definite potential in PvP and as a mopper upper in a team.
I think people are being a bit harsh on En/Ea brutes. Ive had no trouble soloing +1s and 2s. Total Focus with buildup and a high fury is nearly a 1 hit against lts, and I just hit 20 with her last night so thats without SOs.
Im building this char for PvP. What more could you need when every attack can disorient. I dont have figures cos I dont believe in number crunching but i can definitely see a lot of dizzy enemies when im fighting. The stealth seems to give a good Def boost even after youve started attacking and I can pound away all day with barage and energy punch with 2-3 toggles on and barely see my end drop.
I feel its a good char to play, not the easiest in the world but definite potential in PvP and as a mopper upper in a team.
The defence buff made a huge difrence on EA defences !
If you like EA now just wait until lvl 28 energy drain , coupled with aid self , my brute is a non stop full fury smashing maniac
Btw... im sory to disapoint you :/ but defence sets are weak at pvp! Anyone with build up/aim will hit you all the time for doulbe dmg , during BU/Aim 10 seconds !
Yeah i know the damage they can cause but theres not much any1 can do about that, well except for the high resistance sets like invul so i dont see it as a weakness. you still have 8 % resistance to smash/let/en/neg which is 8% more then most people have and the defence makes it so that 2 slotted acc is nt gauranteed to hit which is again better then most peoples defences.
So obviously tanks are tougher but dont have the same damage potential and scrappers/brutes depend on what you see as important or useful to you. I still think regen is the best secondary going for adaptability, but i cant have a egen brute
Non Dark Melee brutes seem weak in PVP.
They just seem to get owned by scrappers
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* Removed De-Toggle effect from Longbow Ballista and Wardens.
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Oh? Didn't see that in the patch notes.
Happy days.