Elec, WP and Fire are probably your best hopes for end management. I find Stone Melee to be really heavy end costs myself and am Will Power, an afterthought and I would have been fire instead, the self heal and end recovery are nice and you can stun nicely to preserve yourself till they're charged
"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!"
I've started a Stone/Fire and it seems to be a good match-up.
Stone brings some decent control to help Fires survivability, with Fault and Seismic Smash (and later Tremor to some extent), as well as the Knockdown in the Mallets. I went with Air Superiority instead of Stone Fists for even more knockdown. Things tend to bounce off the ground a lot, which is fun.
Fire will help with the Blue Bar (this is my biggest foe at the moment, even fully kitted out with Accuracy and End Reduction DOs) with Consume at 20, and will add decent AOE Damage in Burning Aura & Burn, as well as some extra spike damage with Fiery Embrace if you get it (not 100% I will yet).
There's some decent looking synergy between Seismic, Fault and Burn and the Stone Attacks feel very Brutish & Smashy (much more so than my Dark Melee / WP brute). Later, with the Patron Pools it looks like he'll become a bit of an AOE monster, although I've no idea which of two I'll end up going for (Darkest Night looks too tempting to forgo so I'll probably end up with Tentacles, Darkest Night and the AOE, but am still considering Mu Mastery for the easier to use AOE Immob and the AOE Blast).
Fire has a fair few other holes I'll need to fill in, no knockback protection (going with IOs to fill in that gap), no Immob Protection (went with Combat Jumping but might respec it out and rely on Burn instead) and Slows & -recharge attacks like Cold & Psi and -End attacks like Lightning (try and mez the offender and then kill them quickly).
Hello People
Im looking for a little help please, I am looking to do a new Brute. I only want this for PvE as i am on Defiant and PvP has as much life as a graveyard so this char is purley PvE.
I wish to be able to do a good mixture ie: Herd, take & Keep the aggro without having to heal every 10 seconds and when i need to damage deal my end doesnt run out in 30 seconds flat.
I have decided to go with stone Melee and now wish for a good secondry you're thoughts and comments are appreciated........ Thank you for taking the time also to do this i do appreciate it