I would leave fast healing till later, and take quick recovery instead of stamina at 20.
If you got a spare power pool, get air superiority to add a decent attack for pvp.
Enjoy and good luck, i love my one of these 
First of all: brutes are NOT tankers. Up to level 6 with only one attack? Hell, your job is SMASH! So, at level 2 it's time for Bone Smasher.
And get that Fitness trash out of your pre-20 levels. You have QR at 20 and that way you can get your travel power at 14 and Total Focus at 18.
If it has eyes, you can blind it, if it has blood, you can make it bleed, if it has a mouth, you can make it scream.
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First of all: brutes are NOT tankers. Up to level 6 with only one attack? Hell, your job is SMASH! So, at level 2 it's time for Bone Smasher.
And get that Fitness trash out of your pre-20 levels. You have QR at 20 and that way you can get your travel power at 14 and Total Focus at 18.
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Too Right - Let the squishy tank !!!
Brutes as just as much a tank as a tanker, only difference is they use dps for agro rahter than an aura.
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Brutes as just as much a tank as a tanker, only difference is they use dps for agro rahter than an aura.
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No, no, no and once again. No. The only thing Brutes and Tanks share is their powersets, other than that they're totally different animals.
A tankers raison d'etre is to be hit. He's got the armours and a relatively large number of hitpoints to make sure he can be hit a lot without dieing, he's got the means to make sure that enemies are more likely to hit him than his team mates, and even his attacks are designed more about upsetting enemies so that they hit him than doing any damage to the enemies.
A Brutes raison d'etre by contrast is to hit. His attacks are his PRIMARY, and his armours are more about being able to stay long enough so that he can hit for longer. The longer he hits the more his fury builds up and the harder he can hit.
Brutes CAN tank, and the more enemies they have around them, the greater the chance of filling up that fury bar, but ultimately a brute will never be able to tank like a tanker.
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Brutes ARE designed to be hit (Furyyyyy), but overall they're a DPS class, even though they CAN tank. They're a kind of bridge between Tankers and Scrappers, though leaning to the offensive side.
But then from my experience Villains have more of a hybrid feel to them in general.
Agreed.. brutes are designed to be hit, but their MAIN function is to do the hitting; therefore "being hit" really is more of a result of hitting than being hit being their primary concern. Remember too that there is a whole lot more to being a tank than just "being hit". As a tank your primary function is to not just "be hit", but "Make sure you're the one that is hit over your team mates".
Brutes are far more like scrappers than tankers in that regard; they just share the tanker power sets.
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First of all: brutes are NOT tankers. Up to level 6 with only one attack? Hell, your job is SMASH! So, at level 2 it's time for Bone Smasher.
And get that Fitness trash out of your pre-20 levels. You have QR at 20 and that way you can get your travel power at 14 and Total Focus at 18.
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Too Right - Let the squishy tank !!!
Brutes as just as much a tank as a tanker, only difference is they use dps for agro rahter than an aura.
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You do play villains every now and then, don't you?
A brute with two(!) attacks at level 24 acting as tanker-wannabe is dead weight in any semi-decent villain team. Not only would he have trouble keeping any aggro (and his only method of gaining fury) because of everybody and their dog greatly outdamaging him, he would also be unable to contribute anything that could be called significant damage and thus take longer to defeat the one enemy that stayed with him (perhaps out of sheer misery) than the other team members need to annihilate the rest of the spawn.
So, in a team with such a brute the squishies would tank... and they would do a better job at it to boot.
If it has eyes, you can blind it, if it has blood, you can make it bleed, if it has a mouth, you can make it scream.
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Agreed.. brutes are designed to be hit, but their MAIN function is to do the hitting; therefore "being hit" really is more of a result of hitting than being hit being their primary concern. Remember too that there is a whole lot more to being a tank than just "being hit". As a tank your primary function is to not just "be hit", but "Make sure you're the one that is hit over your team mates".
Brutes are far more like scrappers than tankers in that regard; they just share the tanker power sets.
[/ QUOTE ]For the record I was agreeing with your general point, in case that was unclear. Just saying.
Damnit I played my brutes all wrong, I defeated groups with a full attack chain rather than tried playing a poor mans tank. Damn me
Edit: not directed at you, is a quick reply, I see that you are in agreement with Steel Rat
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he's lvl 50 now my nrg/wp and is slotted with all IO's abnd sets and is a complete pwner. thanks everyone.
1st of all i am still pretty much a noober to the game with only having my 1st 50 dinged a lil while ago, so i made a alt char.
i suck at mid's anyway but i came up with what is probably a laughable build :<.
I was wondering if anyone could help draw me up a better one to follow, so i know where i'll stand by 20. And give suggestions for what i could do to improve in the future, thanks in advance ^^
preferably great damage dealer, good in pvp and something that won't die too much ^^
Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.30
http://www.honourableunited.org.uk/mhd.php
anl: Level 25 Magic Brute
Primary Power Set: Energy Melee
Secondary Power Set: Willpower
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Leaping
Villain Profile:
Level 1: Energy Punch -- Empty(A), Empty(3), Empty(5), Empty(9), Empty(27)
Level 1: High Pain Tolerance -- Empty(A), Empty(3), Empty(9)
Level 2: Mind Over Body -- Empty(A), Empty(11), Empty(17)
Level 4: Fast Healing -- Empty(A), Empty(5)
Level 6: Bone Smasher -- Empty(A), Empty(7), Empty(7), Empty(13), Empty(27)
Level 8: Swift -- Empty(A)
Level 10: Indomitable Will -- Empty(A), Empty(11)
Level 12: Build Up -- Empty(A), Empty(13)
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Level 16: Rise to the Challenge -- Empty(A), Empty(17)
Level 18: Combat Jumping -- Empty(A), Empty(19), Empty(19)
Level 20: Stamina -- Empty(A), Empty(21), Empty(21)
Level 22: Super Jump -- Empty(A), Empty(23), Empty(23)
Level 24: Quick Recovery -- Empty(A), Empty(25), Empty(25)
Level 26: [Empty] -- Empty(A), Empty(29)
Level 28: [Empty] -- Empty(A), Empty(29)
Level 30: [Empty]
Level 32: [Empty]
Level 35: [Empty]
Level 38: [Empty]
Level 41: [Empty]
Level 44: [Empty]
Level 47: [Empty]
Level 49: [Empty]
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Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
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