I would wait to take any of the fitness pool until after L20 since WP gets QR at L20. I would also take follow up as soon as you can since that's your BU. I would also think about taking the fighting pool as well.
I PL myself! YAY
Claws/WP is a great set that practically picks itself for the first half of your run leveling up. With Fast Healing and Quick Recovery you don't have to worry about fitting in the fitness pool until later. You'll want to grab each of the powers from both sets as soon as they are available for those first 30 or so levels, then you can kind of go in a different direction and try different things. When it comes to slotting, slot up those attacks first, then fill everything out past that in the early levels. You'll get more out of Fast Healing and HPT in those early levels pre-QR than you will Mind Over Body, so after the attacks are fully slotted, throw some heals in those two. Three slot RttC with heals and QR with EndMods as soon as you can, thats when you'll really take off, those powers and a well slotted Spin will make you lethal to large groups of mobs.
There is another thread a few posts down with some good Claws/WP brute stuff in it, including a couple builds. It's kind of hard to mess up one of these brutes, and in the later game you have lots of flexability in IO slotting. Good luck.
Created a Claws/WP Brute to play around with, and he's now 23 and it's gotten pretty fun. Can pretty much steamroll now that he has QR and RttC.
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What I'm wondering is... how should I slot my powers? Not just which IO's to use, but where I should put my extra slots. Even on my other characters, that's my hardest thing to decide one
Here's what he has so far for slotting (not including the level 23 slots, just got to there and really unsure now). The powers are kind of a guess as to what I'll take, any better options would be appreciated too!
Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.601
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Void Wanderer: Level 23 Magic Brute
Primary Power Set: Claws
Secondary Power Set: Willpower
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Flight
Villain Profile:
Level 1: Strike -- Acc-I(A), Dmg-I(3), Dmg-I(3), RechRdx-I(5), EndRdx-I(5)
Level 1: High Pain Tolerance -- Heal-I(A), ResDam-I(7)
Level 2: Mind Over Body -- EndRdx-I(A), ResDam-I(7)
Level 4: Fast Healing -- Heal-I(A), Heal-I(9)
Level 6: Slash -- Acc-I(A), Dmg-I(9), Dmg-I(11), EndRdx-I(11)
Level 8: Spin -- C'ngBlow-Acc/Dmg(A), C'ngBlow-Dmg/EndRdx(13), C'ngBlow-Dmg/Rchg(13), C'ngBlow-Acc/Rchg(15)
Level 10: Swift -- Run-I(A), Run-I(15)
Level 12: Combat Jumping -- DefBuff-I(A)
Level 14: Super Jump -- Jump-I(A)
Level 16: Rise to the Challenge -- Heal-I(A), Heal-I(17), EndRdx-I(17)
Level 18: Focus -- Acc-I(A), EndRdx-I(19), RechRdx-I(19), Dmg-I(21)
Level 20: Quick Recovery -- EndMod-I(A), EndMod-I(21)
Level 22: Health -- Heal-I(A)
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Level 24: Stamina -- Empty(A)
Level 26: Eviscerate -- Empty(A)
Level 28: Heightened Senses -- Empty(A)
Level 30: Indomitable Will -- Empty(A)
Level 32: Air Superiority -- Empty(A)
Level 35: Follow Up -- Empty(A)
Level 38: Strength of Will -- Empty(A)
Level 41: [Empty]
Level 44: [Empty]
Level 47: [Empty]
Level 49: [Empty]
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Level 1: Brawl -- Dmg-I(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Run-I(A)
Level 2: Rest -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 1: Fury