DM/SD - brute or scrapper???

Hey all

Always wanted a dark melee toon I think the set as a whole is fantastic and even though I had paired it with DA in my early CoV days I never really connected with it (due to the fact I was inexperienced and didn't even kno what io sets were) but now I want to bring it back but this time paired with SD to make up for the obvious lack of aoe..

So my question really is whether it is a scrapper or brute makes a huge difference?? I've been lookin around the forums and to me there's not that much to choose between them

Also since I'm askin questions how much would a good build for this set up likely to cost me??

1. Brutes get more out of their APP blasts, Gloom in particular.

2. Brutes have more HP than scrappers.

3. Brutes have more aggro holding tools than scrappers.

4. SD's +DMG buff, AAO, gives more +DMG to Scrappers than it does to Brutes(+80% vs. +65% fully saturated). The same applies to DM's +DMG buff, Soul Drain(+120% vs. +96%)


This makes DM/SD brutes do less damage than DM/SD scrappers unless they have the best attack chain(which is more end consuming) and maxed fury, assuming full AAO+Soul Drain saturation.