Things will get better with issue 7 for Brutes - less toggle dropping and faster Fury building in PvP.
Make sure you 6 slot Healing Flames and 3 slot Hasten.
At least 2 ACC in every attack.
Are you struggling with Stamina? If Dark Consumption and Consume are giving you enough I would dump the two powers from fitness you have. I think you should slot more into Soul Drain and possibly dump Siphon Life.
Dark Melee isn't awesome in PvP but has some nifty control ie. Touch of fear - mostly useful for keeping someone *out* of a fight.
I've found Dark melee very handy in pvp duels. Stacked -acc coupled with the fear from ToF is very nasty 
Indeed, i would say ToF is a must for a PvP DM/* build. Not only for the fear part but the -acc debuff you apply on the target.
I'd also take Jump Kick instead of Combat Jumping - CJ has minimal defence bonus on a brute and JK is another attack to help boost your Fury.
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I'd also take Jump Kick instead of Combat Jumping - CJ has minimal defence bonus on a brute and JK is another attack to help boost your Fury.
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Except with this build - no protection Vs. Immob... I would also go with Hurdle+CJ for combat mobility. Jump Kick is also one the slowest attacks you can get, not good for fury.
I hate jump kick, very bad choice for a brute, long animation. Also CJ+Hurdle is great PvP combat travel. Helps a lot when you are slowed and such.
Get Fiery Embrace.
A trick in warburg, is head into a mob of really weak (grey con) mobs. Hit soul drain, you'll then be running around with a huge damage boost for 30seconds, aswell as having fiery embrace, you should be ablet to kill a blaster in 3 attacks. Also take break frees in case a blaster toggle knocks then mez's you.
ivebeen running round in warburg and Sirens Call for a while now and i must say in really struggling to win in PvP. Now i see alot of thread about regen scrappers but i struggle with just normal blasters and defenders :-\, hell scrappers r the only ppl i seem to beat at all, and thats a rareity. So i was wondeering if your collective fonts of knowledge could steer me right.
Im a Dark Melee/Fire Aura Brute and my build looks like this:
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Exported from Ver: 1.7.6.0 of the CoH_CoV Character Builder
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Name: Name ?
Level: 35
Archetype: Brute
Primary: Dark Melee
Secondary: Fiery Aura
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01) --> Shadow Punch==> Empty(1)Empty(3)Empty(3)Empty(5)Empty(5)Empty(7)
01) --> Fire Shield==> Empty(1)Empty(7)Empty(9)Empty(9)
02) --> Smite==> Empty(2)Empty(11)Empty(11)Empty(13)Empty(13)Empty(15)
04) --> Shadow Maul==> Empty(4)Empty(15)Empty(17)Empty(17)Empty(19)Empty(19)
06) --> Touch of Fear==> Empty(6)
08) --> Healing Flames==> Empty(8)Empty(21)Empty(21)Empty(23)
10) --> Siphon Life==> Empty(10)Empty(23)Empty(25)Empty(25)Empty(27)Empty(27)
12) --> Combat Jumping==> Empty(12)Empty(29)Empty(29)Empty(31)
14) --> Super Jump==> Empty(14)
16) --> Plasma Shield==> Empty(16)Empty(31)Empty(31)Empty(33)Empty(33)Empty(33)
18) --> Hasten==> Empty(18)
20) --> Consume==> Empty(20)
22) --> Acrobatics==> Empty(22)
24) --> Dark Consumption==> Empty(24)Empty(34)
26) --> Swift==> Empty(26)
28) --> Soul Drain==> Empty(28)
30) --> Health==> Empty(30)
32) --> Midnight Grasp==> Empty(32)Empty(34)Empty(34)
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01) --> Power Slide==> Empty(1)
01) --> Sprint==> Empty(1)
01) --> Brawl==> Empty(1)
01) --> Fury==> Empty(1)
02) --> Rest==> Empty(2)
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suggestions?
Btw the slots arent empty :P but its pritty obviosu whats there.