I don't know what servers you tried, but villain side is far from empty on the more populated ones.
As for power sets, probably anything paired with Willpower would make for a smooth leveling experience on just SOs.
I'm just starting with Brutes (Controller/Dom player from waaaaay back) doing some soloing myself.
As I'm more enjoying the dmg output for large spawns, I went with SS/FA, more for the FA AOE dmg than anything else. I wish there was something with more mitigation to pair /FA with... But ::shrug:: when you go for dmg in the armor set, that's what you get. 
I've only gotten the new alt just barely started (lvl 13), but so far he's doing well on 0 (lvl)/+3->+5 eqiv no bosses(+5 gets rough). He generally lvls more than once in a single mission and it's really more a matter of surviving long enough for FA to burn down the spawn while I focus on any Lt's.
While I'd dearly love some of the durability of WP or one of the other high survivability sets, the sheer AOE carnage FA wreaks on minons more than makes up for it so far.
I've considered changing to DM/FA to add a little more survivability...
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DM/Will would be strong and survivable solo. A caveat: I haven't run one personally, I'm only going by my experience with Willpower plus observing lots of DM players I've teamed with. Neither power set requires a big investment to be a solid performer.
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Originally Posted by Waaambulance
Does a Brute like this exist or is there another class out there that I might have better luck soloing missions on a higher difficulty with?
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I would have to say claws/wp, it gets really good AoE very early.
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Unless you purposely try to screw up your build- I think just about any brute works pretty well. Some maybe more so than others, but they are all pretty solo-friendly with a good mix of damage and survivability.
SS/WP Brutes can solo well on an inexpensive build and easily
handle 0/2 against most PvE stuff, and typically 0/4 once you
have FootStomp.
With a higher investment, they can be nearly indestructible
against S/L mobs at *any* difficulty setting.
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If I read the diff setting correctly then any brute will really work for it. /wp helps with little downtime, and /regen will work when it officially gets here. Dark is forgiving. Claws blooms early and is light on end, but really just about anything works. I can see something like /sr, or /shield taking time to develop to where you would like it.
My Dark/shield level 27 scrapper is doing +1x2 and it's touch and go, but I'm surviving to where I'm leaving the diff setting there. /shield is a trade off with /sr as it's less durable at the benefit of being more offensive. My level 33 Dark/elec brute runs on +0x3. I die a number of times, but I'm also pushing the build and eating inspirs like candy and it's fun. I did a Carnie mission last night and outside of the boss spawns I was virtually running from one mob to another with little down time. I did one arc that had two EB in it. You faced one twice and it was a Freakshow EB so it rezzed during one of the missions. In other words, I basically downed four EBs in one arc. Preaton(sp?) I basically soloed without inspirs. I currently have SOs and common level 35 IOs in the build outside of Energize which is frankenslotted with heal/recharge. I also have a SS/fire, SS/elec, and a Stone/wp. Really, it's tough to pick a bad brute.
In terms of currency issues, friends don't let friends slot TOs. It's just not worth it if you are buying them. I hardly think it's worth selling them no matter how poor you might be. Two quick and dirty tricks. Run some AE missions to get a little stash of tickets going. Here and here are actual decently done arcs. Either do some reward rolls with them, or even roll for random common salvage. I would aim for the middle level arcane and tech salvage. Each roll for salvage is 8 tickets. A number of salvage depending on the market can go for 40k-150K easy. Put 1 currency bids on level 50 common recipes that aren't desirable, Taunt, Confuse, etc. People will dump these for 1 currency to get whatever. Grab a stack of 10 of these and sell them at a store. Even if the crappy ones sell for little, each still sells of +30K. Just on the recipes alone, I had a level 3 character sitting with 1 million and you need just under that for SOs at 22.
I recently came back to the game and over the last week I have made many new characters to try them out and I think I have decided on a Brute. The problem is every server I got on, villain side seems vacant and I do not have the "Going Rogue" expansion to level in the new zone.
With that being said I was wonder what type of brute would be good for solo mission runs that can possibly run at 0/+1 or +2 and have little downtime or risk of death. Take into account that I am dead broke and will be using training enhancements until I get to SO's and DO's.
Does a Brute like this exist or is there another class out there that I might have better luck soloing missions on a higher difficulty with?