Looks pretty solid from an SS point of view. I've not played Fire too much, so I'll leave that alone.
One thing I would do is swap swift for hurdle because hurdle works very well with CJ. It gives you a pseudo-travel power early, and also is fantastic for bouncing around in missions and keeping the fury up between spawns.
If you can find them, a couple of extra slots in health wouldn't go amiss, though by no means essential, as fire's heal is on a fairly fast recharge I think. Anything to avoid downtime though.
Welcome to the wonderful world of SMASH! One thing to remember is that playing a brute does affect how you play other characters. Suddenly you start trying to take all missions at a run, and saying things like, "Rest? Are you mad? We've got at least 20% endurance!".
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Not far off my build, but I got boxing at 6 not Air superiority and Punch at 2. Rage at 22 and stamina at 20. I then took Haymaker at 26. I'm considering getting Consume or Blazing Aura at 30.
I've found that with Rage Perma, 2 Damage and 1 End red is sufficient in my attacks, I get hit percentages in the 75-80s on the highest difficulty level. 6 slotting Knockout Blow and Healing Flames are certainly a good investment. I just started having endurance problems at level 28 with tough, for the first time in 8 levels.
I was originally going to put just 2 slots in Jab but I noticed that from Herostats that Jab was doing the most damage out of all my attacks, so I added a 3rd to it.
@Unthing ... Mostly on Union.
Oh, and one last thing, put brawl on auto, possibly switching to jab once you recharge SOs.
Builds fury wonderfully and also helps lessen RSI.
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Thanks for the advice, guys. I've switched Swift for Hurdle, but that's the only major change I've made. Don't think I can really get much more performance out of it, heh.
I was originally going to be SS/Dark (I'd have something ridiculous like 60% resist against psionic alone with that), but fire just....lured me, I suppose.
Well, after witnessing how quickly my new Brute has been trouncing everyone that looks at her funny, I think I've finally found new purpose in life.
It's certainly quite a rush after playing a Mastermind; no longer the woman stood behind everyone else, you're the utter psycho that leaps in and starts cracking skulls, oblivious to anyone's safety except - perhaps - for your own.
As a result, I've put together a little build I hope to have as time goes on:
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Exported from Ver: 1.7.5.0 of the CoH_CoV Character Builder
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Name:
Level: 41
Archetype: Brute
Primary: Super Strength
Secondary: Fiery Aura
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01) --> Jab==> Acc(1)Rechg(3)Rechg(25)
01) --> Fire Shield==> DmgRes(1)DmgRes(5)DmgRes(7)EndRdx(9)
02) --> Haymaker==> Acc(2)Rechg(3)Rechg(36)
04) --> Healing Flames==> Rechg(4)Rechg(5)Rechg(9)Heal(11)Heal(11)Heal(13)
06) --> Air Superiority==> Acc(6)Rechg(7)Rechg(36)
08) --> Knockout Blow==> Acc(8)Dmg(13)Dmg(15)Dmg(15)Rechg(21)Rechg(25)
10) --> Combat Jumping==> DefBuf(10)
12) --> Swift==> Run(12)
14) --> Super Jump==> Jump(14)
16) --> Plasma Shield==> DmgRes(16)DmgRes(17)DmgRes(17)EndRdx(21)
18) --> Rage==> Rechg(18)Rechg(19)Rechg(19)
20) --> Health==> Heal(20)
22) --> Stamina==> EndMod(22)EndMod(23)EndMod(23)
24) --> Acrobatics==> EndRdx(24)
26) --> Blazing Aura==> Acc(26)Dmg(27)Dmg(27)Dmg(29)EndRdx(31)EndRdx(31)
28) --> Boxing==> Acc(28)Rechg(29)Rechg(37)
30) --> Tough==> DmgRes(30)DmgRes(31)DmgRes(33)EndRdx(33)
32) --> Foot Stomp==> Acc(32)Dmg(33)Dmg(34)Dmg(34)Rechg(34)Rechg(36)
35) --> Consume==> Acc(35)EndMod(37)EndMod(37)Rechg(39)Rechg(39)Rechg(39)
38) --> Rise of the Phoenix==> DisDur(38)DisDur(40)DisDur(40)EndMod(40)
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01) --> Sprint==> Empty(1)
01) --> Brawl==> Acc(1)
01) --> Fury==> Empty(1)
02) --> Rest==> Empty(2)
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I'm not looking to be perfect, and this character will be primarily participating in PvE, but any massive, glaring issues that you can see will be sorted. o.o