dont know, dont forget while yes its great LETHEL damg, its heavy end and slowish rech. its similer to stone melee. and i got the rech to a good timing, but only cos ive completely IO'd my brute.
Battle Axe is slower than a sleeping slug and eats endurance so fast you'll forget the bar is blue even without hasten. You can only speed it up so far since its the animation times that truly slow it down. As a result Fury buildup would be difficult and heavily reliant on getting yourself beaten up, which with Fire means even more blue expenditure on the click heal.
If you manage to get a full Fury bar with Battle Axe you will simply redefine the concept of pain, but getting there is going to need some effort. Entirely because of the endurance expenditure I'd only recommend a seriously blue friendly secondary, and because you'll have to rely on getting punched repeatedly in the face I'd narrow the option further down to Willpower. Quick Recovery and a set based on low downtime health regeneration will be the best help for building and maintaining Fury with Battle Axe.
Battle Axe/Fire is a nightmare I don't want to think of for a Brute. Tanks can take things a bit easier, but the Brute archetype really needs you to be going nuts to the wall to get anything out of it (and not be a hard to kill but harmless scrapper), so I wouldn't consider BA/Fire to be an ideal combination. Oh there'll be people who'll play it and swear by it like usual, but it doesn't change that you'd have to work real hard to make it a less than masochistic choice. Some people like that, I prefer to kick a guy when he's down and already dead though.
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i was looking at the move set for the battle axe power set and was noticing how most of the moves were either high or superior damage and that the move set had a "build up" with it aswell.
so i was woundering if u got hasten and fire then cud this be the new farming set??