Yes. Brutes are immense fun. Nothing quite like running from mob to mob, whacking them a couple of times and then hearing that great mission complete music that CoV has. 
SS/Fire and man, that SMASH is just great! *giggles in delight* 
I agree with you here, Brutes are really PvE killing machines. I love mine 
I love my brute, I think it's my only real AoE alt at the moment and that's probably got a lot to do with it. Love watching those orrange numbers rise in value as the fight goes on, just popping blues as needed. In all am probably weaker than my scrapper, die more often and sure as hell cant kick out the same single target damage, but despite this brutes feel super.
"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"
... I'm really, really, really enjoying my brute. The sheer joy of one-shotting a +2, and being able to take out the whole final room of a mission spawned for two on Relentless in a matter of minutes just makes me happier and happier each time I log. This is my first really solo-capable toon, so I guess that has something to do with things, but long after launch, SMASH has lost none of its appeal at all.
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I'm EM/EA, by the way, and the game got fun once I managed to respec into Aid Self! (The fact that I also got Energy Transfr around then may, I admit, have played some small role
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