I've been having a lot of fun with my Dark/EA brute. Only up to 20 so far but he already has a large number of survival tools to draw on. AoE attacks are lacking but the single target stuff hits so quickly that I can still tear a spawn apart in seconds flat.
EA is a good set overall for any end heavy primary. It's not great if you're trying to hold agro for a large team but on smaller teams and solo you'll never run out of endurance with even stone melee.and you can pull mobs apart by running up and tearing the soul out of one of them. Or hit salt cyrstals from the mastery pool and neutralize the alpha from 40 meters out.
I've also got a Stone/Elec that I like and don't see very often.
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I run a Mace/SD brute. He's at 42 and it's been fairly smooth sailing save for some endurance woes in a prolonged battle.
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Originally Posted by plainguy
I don't many shield mace brutes.. I don't see many mace in general
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I've got a few Brutes I've been working on. Since the Inherent Fitness buff in Issue 19, I've been digging my Dark/Dark Brute.
Historically, I also really enjoyed my EM/EA Brute, despite everyone's deep dislike of Energy Aura. I find it much more survivable than Super Reflexes in most situations, since it allows you to slot a bit for resistance as well as defense (but I also refuse to min/max with IOs to softcap). And the addition of the heal to the set a year or so ago, combined with how often you can fire it off, really make a difference.
I also really enjoy my Elec/Elec Brute.
I'm not too keen on the SS/Invuln or SS/SR Brutes I made; I could probably respec the SS/Invuln into something pretty decent now, but SS/SR probably needs to be re-rolled as SS/WP... (Have I mentioned that I really hate SR?)
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