First thing you need to decide is weather you want a tank or a brute. If you are looknig for a WP/DM tank the tank forums are that way >>>>
If you are looking for a Brute, you have to realize you will not be a tank but a melee damage dealer with survival tools to keep yourself alive, and not everyone else. So you will not be taking a taunt unless you want to IO it out for set bonuses, period. Your taunt power is like the scrappers taunt power, only there for IO set bonus purposes.
DM and WP go quite well together and provide for a fairly solid and fun brute. For the powers you specifically asked, the answer is, it depends.
ToF is excellent mitigation against a single enemy and can be easily double stacked to fear bosses/EBs. However, you have to think that WP is a very survivable set, and if you are dealing with multiple enemies anyway one boss or EB is not going to pose enough threat for you to stop pounding and start fearing. I rarely find myself using it as any situation that kills me on WP is not a situation that can be fixed by simply putting one enemy out of the combat.
Dark consumption, on a well Enhanced WP brute is reduntant. It recycles too slow and needs accuracy to be able to use in a levelling build but I guess if you are reallly hurting on endurance in your 20 to 30 levels, you could potentially use it ever so often. In the endgame the only use it really has is againt -recov and drainers.
to go along with the previous post, I have done rather well with a DM/WP brute. lower lvls I mainly depend on shadow maul and the acc debuff the aura toggle gives. later in the game I had focused on the pbaoe attacks, shadow maul, and acc debuff bonus to rip through and survive major odds.
Hello fellow villians. For the first time playing COH/COV I am making a tank (brute). Every toon I have ever played has either been defenders/controllers or corruptors/dominators. I want to try a brute next and I have a great background idea for a dark melee/willpower. The few posts I have seen on the forums seem to showcase endgame builds, what i'd like to know is how did you spec your brutes while leveling. There are some powers that look like must haves that I have not seen in the endgame builds like taunt, touch of fear, and dark consumption. Did you use these powers while leveling? How good were they and did you slot?
Innercore 50 Stone/Rad Controller (Pinnacle)
Iron Diva 50 Sonic/Kin Corruptor (Freedom)
Frigid Freija 50 Ice/Kin Corruptor (Freedom)
Oasha Blaze 50 Stone/Fire Dom (Freedom)
Macros el Diablo 50 Fire/Dark Corruptor (Freedom)
Lord Ganymede 20 DM/WP baby brute
and many many other alts...