Believe it or not my most recent 50 is a Elec/Elec/Mu Brute that I recently converted to the blueside 
For the most part he is one of my all time fav melee 50s I have ever made.
(I also love my old Mace/WP Tank a ton too)
I have to admit I love never running out of end with the Brute.
The balance of offense/defense has been a lot of fun and I solo'd with it 99% of the time getting to 50.
The only groups/baddies I had probs with were the Ring Mistresses of the Carnies and maybe a little bit of Nemeses when I had the mobs TOO big.
(But that was rare) 
The MU Patron Pool rocks with it also.
For the range of the powers, the Mu Striker's help, and the electric fences are awesome to start mobs out with also. 
Overall I enjoy the toon immensely.
(P.S.)
I always use IOs on my toons (rarely sets of them) but tend to respec the heck out of all of them til I got the right "feel" that I am comfortable with.
Usually that means never having my blue bar move much at all and dishing out plenty of damage.
@Patrick Magellen
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Electric / Shield Defense is probably the best farming combo in the game. It gives you two big AoEs (Lightning Rod and Shield Charge) with the same cooldown time, so you can use them in combination for most fights. Shield Defense has a HP buff auto-power, a damage buff that increases based on the number of enemies around you, can soft-cap defenses through IO slotting, and can cap defense debuff resistance with the right setup.
Scrapper is probably the best way to go with Elec/SD. The higher base damage means Lightning Rod and Shield Charge will do more damage. Lightning Rod's description in Mids and Paragon Wiki says it does not gain bonus damage from Fury. Shield Charge is on the pet damage cap of 400%, so while a Brute will hit that easier, a Scrapper will do more damage at 400%.
Just by looking at Mids with both powers having 3 damage IOs, AAO fully saturated, Build-Up on, and Fury at 100% after using the Villain alignment power, you can have some easy self-buffed damage numbers to compare. The Brute will do 544 damage with Shield Charge and 665 with Lightning Rod, for a total of 1208 damage. The Scrapper will do 571 damage with Shield Charge and 1104 damage with Lightning Rod, for a total of 1675 damage. That's almost 40% more damage that the Scrapper is doing in the Brute's best-case scenario.
I'm very happy with my Elec/WP brute.
He is currently level 35, and I've been running on +0/x6 comfortably for the last 6-7 levels. Planning on going with Mu mastery, both for concept and added AoE potential.
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Fire.. Fire holds taunt so that you can then use fieryembrace and then burn them. You fury does not Get too 100% ever as the other guy said.. it gets to 85% and holds. Then you can buildup,Lighting rod and by the time you have done that you can fire off Burn again before Fireyembrace runs out. That combo works really well on the mobs that self Rez.
You can do S/L mobs and +3/8 or +4/8 and any fire mobs can be +4/8 but normally I like 3+/8 because I get to ticket cap fast enough with that.
Its time to work on a farming alt. Im thinking of making an elec/??/mu brute or scrapper for l19. I plan on taking either /inv or /wp.
Im sure fire would be better in some ways, but I would rather go elect.
So, I guess my first question for opinions is which would be best:
1) Inv or WP?
2) Scrapper or brute?
Any opinions are appreciated