Most powerful blend for a brute!

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Originally Posted by Gruumch SM/DA Brute + Fire/Kin Corrupter = perma stunned mob that melts to RoF + Fireball and the brute will have limitless endurance. Things will die so fast you don't have to worry about aggro.

Things already die fast with or without the Dark Armor. I've been playing a Fire/Cold Corruptor for a long while, and she just absolutely slaughters entire spawns of enemies. But she only has two issues:

1. The Alpha strike.
2. The bosses that will escape the Rain of OMG (Rain of Fire + Sleet).

So from personal experience, if I were to choose a Brute that'd help me out here would be a Boss Killer Brute that can act as a meat shield for the initial aggro.

The radius of FSC is smaller, but is by no means "small".

I have an FM/SD Brute and it's an excellent combination, you won't be disappointed.

This I can't wrap my head around. Since for scrappers DM is king of ST, unless someone has proven that KM is ahead.

Indeed it is.

Take a look at Bill Z's "The Results are in..." thread, showing and comparing the ST DPS potential of brute and scrapper primaries: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...79&postcount=1

As you can see, when comparing DM(w/10 targets) and FM, for Scrappers it's about a 30 DPS difference, and for Brutes it's a 10 DPS difference. Add more damage buffs to the mix(OP is teaming with a kin after all) and it would be pretty close.

well, i am partially agree with it.
however, rage + shield charge + ball lightning + foot stomp works better. whole agro will be yours forever. squishy can relax and enjoy the slaughter. that IF something on the spawn has survived your strike chain.
but electric/shield is also excellent agro magnet. even more AEs, even less resistance on mobs. and no rage drawbacks.
i would recommend either of this combinations.

The problem is that Shield Charge and Lightning rod offers very little benefit to a brute because of the 400% damage cap. An IOed Elec Shield brute would hit the damage cap on those two attacks without buildup.

that is totally not a problem. that's an advantage.
you deliver huge chunk of AoE burst damage, while your /kin friend help you with the recharge of them. AND both are great damage mitigation tools while leveling and not soft caped.

No, compared to the Scrapper it is a disadvantage. Brutes will hit the pet damage cap sooner than a Scrapper, so the Scrapper gets more benefit from Fulcrum Shift. This doesn't mean LR/SC are bad for Brutes, just that they're better for Tankers and Scrappers.