Brute solo vs Scrapper solo

My two cents:

Scrapper - Easier to buff damage by popping red pills. Less HP. Survivability is very similar on /secondaries based around Def, Regen or Res+Heals without godmode, since you can only buff Res to 75%. Damage remains constant even if you alt-tab every 10 seconds to check your twitter

Brute - Much harder to buff damage by popping red pills. More HP. Survivability is only significantly higher if you pick Res-based /secondaries with a godmode, since you can buff Res to 90%. Damage crashes everytime you alt-tab, click a clickie on a mission, wait for the escort victim to catch up, go bio, etc.

That said, both are the most friendly AT in the game, with very similar results. The main advantage of a scrapper is that you can pump up max damage whenever you want and obliterate anything at any moment's notice. If a brute just happens to be low on fury just as he gets ambushed by a sapper... he'll usually win anyway, but not before taking an endurance hit.

On another note, the first 10 levels before Brute damage modifier decays back to 0.75 are gold, since fury stacks with the extra damage Also, since brutes don't get as much out of Damage Enhancers as the other classes (since they don't modify extra fury damage) a pre-stamina Brute can safely slot only Accuracy/End Redux into their attacks without significant damage decay, while a Scrapper (and pretty much everyone else) doing the same takes a much greater damage hit.

I feel like Brutes and Scrappers are largely interchangable, mechanically. the main difference always has been (and I think always will be) the mindset of those that play them and those that team with brutes/scrappers.

I got a KM/SD to 50 and I loved it the whole way through, but I'm leveling a DM/SR Brute to 50 now and I'm loving it just as much. The funny thing is as the KM/SD people were never sure I could tank (despite having SD's taunt aura for holding aggro), whereas with a Brute they know you can.

I plan to tank with both, but it's interesting that I've had more than one person tell me to 'learn2play' because they thought scrappers/SD's taunt aura was weak/incapable of holding aggro, whereas I've never met someone that doubted that for a brute.

Brutes are a hybrid class. They can kinda scrap and kinda tank. Specific sets and builds can pull an individual Brute in different directions.


Personally, I like survivable Scrappers, and scrappy Tanks (scrankers), so Brute is actually the perfect AT for me.

I still love my existing Scrappers and Tanks, but now that I can have blue side Brutes there is no reason for me to ever make a new Scrapper or Tanker.

I'm perfectly ok with a real Tank being a better Tank than me, and a real Scrapper being a better Scrapper than me. I'm happy with my place in between them, and the flexibility it gives me.


I've been having so much fun the last month or so teaming with such a diverse collection of AT's and seeing how the subtle differences between them play out.

I've been paying particular attention to Brutes and Scrappers and Brutes and Tanks match ups. I [feel] that my Brute compares nicely to the Tanks and Scrappers I've teamed with. I've not yet felt superfulous, or that I've made them superfulous in general.