1. Blazing Aura is excellent, but is quite an endurance hog, needs to hit, and wants slotting for damage. If possible I'd go with 2 End, 1 Acc, 3 Damage but that may not be realistic until post lvl 30. There's also room for experimenting with parts of sets to try and maximise your end/damage/acc.
2. Boxing is a good call for /FA as it's a bit softer than other Brute secondaries. But I'd definitely make sure you get Punch, Haymaker and Knockout Blow first and as soon as possible.
3. Consume is pretty damned fantastic. Worth 3 slotting for recharge, add some accuracy when you can, endmods when you have spare slots later. Without endmod it can top you up off 3 mobs, helps recovery from Rage crashes, and lets you push it that bit further into a mish without stopping.
Superjump goes quite nicely as 1. it looks really good leaping across the sky whilst on fire, and 2. Acrobatics sorts out the lack of knockback protection if you don't want to spend millions on the knockback protection IOs.
There's a good thread here: http://uk.boards.cityofheroes.com/sh...n=0&page=0
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3. Consume is pretty damned fantastic. Worth 3 slotting for recharge, add some accuracy when you can, endmods when you have spare slots later. Without endmod it can top you up off 3 mobs, helps recovery from Rage crashes, and lets you push it that bit further into a mish without stopping.
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And dont forget the new IO sets for End mod 
Consume is godly, even more, now.
Growing weary of my em/ela brute that i rolled together for the sole purpose of pvp and not quite ready to make a /willpower brute or go back over to the blue side. I decided to make a SS/FA for some of that yummy AOE goodness in PVE and the potential to be a decent casual pvp brute.
so im just gonna go ahead and ask the questions i want answerd hoping some more experienced players will answer them 
but anyone that can point me to a nice updated guide or would like to present me with their own build and what that builds strengths and weaknesses are i would be very very greatful 
oh and maybe somthing for another thread but i must say union seems empty recently ive just come back from a 6 month break but its population seems to have decreased :S
i've been looking around to see if theres any decent guides but havent had so much luck
(1).Blazing Aura.have been told this is quite a good dmg aura and was wondering how i should slot it and also wondering if the end usage is as painful as lightning field and certain other dmg auras
(2).Consume.this was personally one of my favourite powers in the set when i used to help level my friends fire/fire tank on his account but...alas... im confused when the power is used by a brute,as some people in-game have told me its not worth taking and if it is to be taken at all you should wait till ur late 30's pushing early 40's. the reason this confuses me is because on the blue side on a tank this was a wonderful power after slotted for rech it always seemed to be up when i needed it most. so maybe am i right in thinking the recharge is maybe longer for a brute? or perhaps it does not do the perscribed 20 end per mob it does on a tank.
(3).Boxing,Tough And Fury.since i plan to take tough and i never really warmed on to the first power in the SS set i was wondering if boxing was taken at an early stage like say lvl 6,8 or 10 it would do well intergrated with a fury chain and would it be as effective as jab? On the issue of tough i was wondering what sort of level i should take it for it to stack with fire shield i personally always thought of it as a last minute thing you got late game but maybe with fire being so squishie it could use it earlier on.
its late and i was sure i had so many more questions so be warned i may be back
thanks for your replies!