if you're not close to the soft cap (~45% smashing\lethal defense) I'd go for Soul Mastery and pick up gloom, darkest night, and dark obliteration. Darkest night really does a lot for your survivability and gloom is a fantastic attack.
The Porcelain God - DarkKinetics Corruptor
Meat Juice - DarkDarkSoul Brute
Pretty and Strong - Do you really have to ask?
I went for Mu. Makes you better at draining mobs, does 2nd best AoE damage(Pyre first) and 2nd best ST damage(Soul first).
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Auroxis - Emp/Rad/Power Defender Pylon Video Soloing an AV
Pelvic Thunder - SS/Elec/Mu Brute
Sorajin - Elec/Nin Stalker
Neuropain - Sonic/Mental/Elec Blaster
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Mu actually does better dmg that pyre for AoE. But i for one dont recommend using mu with SS unless you plan on farming most of the time because the -KB in fences is just a *****.
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Originally Posted by Auroxis
I went for Mu. Makes you better at draining mobs, does 2nd best AoE damage(Pyre first) and 2nd best ST damage(Soul first).
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Another thing to consider about Mu is that energy damage is probably more resisted, on average, then fire or negative damage types. Not saying Mu isn't good..I've used it in the past and been happy with it. But I'm kind of a fan of Soul because of the survivability it gives a brute like ss\ela that has it's own endurance recovery tools.
You really can't go wrong with mu\pyre\soul, but it all depends, to me, on how survivable your brute is. If you rely on KD to help keep you standing, Mu is problematic because of what ultrawatt said (if you use fences). If you're already quite survivable, then pyre is nice because of what it brings (solid fire damage), if you need a little extra help in the survivability department and have lots of endurance to use, soul is a solid choice.
Kind of nice to have such options if you ask me.
The Porcelain God - DarkKinetics Corruptor
Meat Juice - DarkDarkSoul Brute
Pretty and Strong - Do you really have to ask?
I picked Soul. Electric Fences don't mesh well with Footstomp, you need to waste two power picks to get Fireball, while in Soul you get everything you need - a terrific ST attack, an AoE and a great survivability tool.
As a Elec/SS/Mu Tank just want to chime in on this.
I've Never really found the Foot stomp Fense issue a big deal. Opening Attack, use Footstomp and follow it up with Electric Fense, then Ball Lightning. Generaly not much is left standing at that point. Save for Boss who quickly go down from a KO Blow *and many boss types are immune to knockdown anyways*. So the need to knock things back down isn't that big.
The 1, 2, 3 AoE (plus add in Lightning Field) attacks gives you a pretty massive AoE potential thats hard for others to deplicate. And this is coming form a tank mind you... under Brute Fury I really can't see much getting back up to even worry about the Fense Imm.
Electric Fense also gives you a 2nd form of Aggro Control. 2 groups of Bad Guys? Nail one with Electric fense and go pound the other group.
And of course... Power DRain + EF + BL = Basicly No End for Bad guys.
Main: Praetor Imperium Elec/SS/Mu
What's a good ancillary for the SS/ELE Brute? Nearly to the point where I'm going to need to choose something. =)
Thanks!
Primaries: Doctor Roboto - 50(+3) MM (BOT/FF/MU)
Johnny Liberty - 50(+3) Tank (EM/INV/EM)
Lvl 50 Archetypes: MM, TNK, BRT, SCR, PB, CNT, DOM
Still working on: NONE! NCSoft won't let me. =(