doubt I'm going to try shield beyond the character creation screen tbh. I need to make an alt with a Kite Shield, but the set really doesn't appeal to me on anything other than a scrapper which has no set I'd want to play with shield at present.
"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!"
If I am being completely honest then numerically Shields doesn't look right.
The shield(s) may look great but that may mean nothing if the powerset doesn't do too well.
He will honor his words; he will definitely carry out his actions. What he promises he will fulfill. He does not care about his bodily self, putting his life and death aside to come forward for another's troubled besiegement. He does not boast about his ability, or shamelessly extol his own virtues. - Sima Qian.
I'm thinking mace/shield
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I guess I'm agreeing with this really. I'd love a character with a mace and a kite shield, but I cant justify it with the numbers knowing that I didn't get anywhere with mace/WP and WP is numerically much better on a brute than shield looks. It may change I guess, and we can only hope
"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!"
A nice dam buff could make all the difference in the fun factor.
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I'm thinking mace/shield
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I'm thinking mace/shield
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damage buff + new clobber= happy TRT
EDIT: Oh i thought this was a general shields for brute thread NM
I was thinking Hammer/Shield 
He will honor his words; he will definitely carry out his actions. What he promises he will fulfill. He does not care about his bodily self, putting his life and death aside to come forward for another's troubled besiegement. He does not boast about his ability, or shamelessly extol his own virtues. - Sima Qian.
But anything with rage in a brute is a winner.
Even SR , cause of way fury and rage now with shields +damage it looks awesome.
But honestly i dont like the shields setup , def is too low resistance almost none excistant , no self heal so aid self is a must .
So think its another Elec Armor set , while fun to play a gimp , and probaly will make another gimp brute shields.
The values currently look too bleak , so i must admit think am going scrapper shield for this one , cause as brute i think would have made a mace/shield just for concept .
But then again the question you rather ask is SS/shields beter then SS/wp , well even with the added damage i dont think so unlimited endurance and regen always beter then low value def with fixed endurance term.
I think the positional defence numbers look good.
Well, I'm most likely giving this a shot. Against All Odds + Fury + Rage sounds like some pretty sick damage output, really. Closer and closer to that 750% damagebuff cap... <_<
Heck, AAO sounds perfectly fitting to the Brute theme and Fury in general - You hit me? I get angry and hit you back HARDER. You surround me? I get angry and SMASH.
Aside from Rage crashes (which are supposedly getting changed to not target +def sets unfairly), this sounds like a winner of a combo to me. Anyone else going to try this particular powerset combination when i13 comes out?