Electric Brute

I'm thinking about making an Electric Melee/Electric Armor Brute. Can someone fill me in on the pros and cons to the build, and if they're excel at a certain type of fighting? I'd like to know for sure what it is I'd be getting into with this type of Brute.

Pros-
- Great AoE
- Good on endurance
- Resistance is decent
- Great for mopping up Rikti
- Exotic damage type that is less likely to be PvE resisted
- damage aura

Cons-
- No defense
- notably poor ST damage
- unlike Fiery aura and Dark Armor, there is no quick recharging heal power (irks me to play resistance sets w/o HP regen tools outside of Med Pool)

Just my take on the combo. Feel free to disagree

The main problem I've had with my elec brute is the build can get tight for powers. You kinda want most of the stuff from both trees. As well as tough/weave, because without those two you will be uber squishy. This doesn't leave room for patron power pools. At least in my build.

You should have room for two patron powers, fitness, travel, and fighting pools, if you skip charged brawl or havoc punch, energy clap, and powersurge.

I like power surge, god mode is invaluable, and I like having more attacks in my chain, though it is possible to drop a melee attack for one of the patron attacks.

If you're going for IOs, melee defense is easy for Elec/Elec. Titanium Coating for the armor toggles, Obliteration and Touch of Death for the melee attacks and you're set. Once you've drained the enemies of their endurance, their only attack will (usually) be some version of Brawl (which hurts a lot more compared to one given to players). Single targets you can usually pressure enough -Recovery to almost never have them attack once drained.