Fiery-Enforcer

I don't find maintaining max fury to be anymore difficult than it was. It's just now that the max fury you can obtain is slightly lower.

Just because there are a lot of bad Scrapper PLAYERS, doesn't mean the Scrapper AT is bad in PvP.

Well, even with the changes to /FA, nothing defensively has changed with the set, so you'll still be kinda squishy. And I picked Claws because you don't get Foot Stomp until 32, while Claws gets Spin at 6. I think Claws is better while leveling up, but then SS gets better once you get Foot Stomp.

For leveling? As far as Brutes go, I suggest Claws/WP. Non Brutes, Fire/Dark Corr.

Awesome job, besides Hami practically one shotting me in the beginning.

I personally play with a Ninjitsu Stalker, which I like a lot. But like Fluff said, either WP or Regen is good. I don't think you'll go wrong with either of them.

Mind/Fire is amazing in PvE, it can make most of the games content trivial at the higher levels. I've personally soloed the LRSF with mine.

I still see no reason to pick anything over Mace Mastery, besides a few exceptions. Scorpion Shield is that great.

Sometimes you have to talk to the contact more than once before they give you any missions, I don't like that, but it is what it is. You shouldn't have ran out of contacts already. I'm currently lvl 10, never ran out of contacts and still have 3 or 4 contacts I haven't even done any missions for yet.

I'll be keeping my SS/Fire redside for Liberate, gotta love double rewards for Fakes.

I've been wanting to raise the difficulty, things have been too easy for my Demon/Dark MM so far.

If you like getting knocked back then why slot for any KB protection? I for one think it's dumb that FA and DA don't get any KB protection or resistance. These are two sets that rely on an active defense through there heals, if you're on the ground, you can't heal. Adding KB protection to these sets wouldn't make them like WP at all since they would still play completely differently.

On my SS/Fire Brute, I have 3 -KB IO's slotted. Since I fight a lot of Nemesis, anything less would allow the Fakes to knock me back every time they hit me with Staff Bolt, and if you've fought them before you would know they use it often. But yet hami's yellow mito's still knock me back despite those IO's. I would kill for a single enhancement slot, yet I must use 3 slots to fill up this silly KB hole.

I ran through the mission on my SS/Fire/Pyre at +3x8 with bosses without dying. They were Super Strength and Regen I believe, no defense debuffs and they had a self rez.

I'll probably bring my Sonic/Cold, it seems like that would round out the team.

It would help to know what you are exactly fighting. Like Nalrok mentioned, defense debuffs can make a huge difference and even make these decked out Brutes go down like it was nothing.

Maybe these bosses were buffed because of all those exploitive boss farms?

I don't know what you're trying to say is nerfed. Your Brute was nerfed? Or the farm you were using was nerfed?

SS/Fire Brutes have the best AoE damage now I'd say. They won't have the best defense, but dead things don't hurt you.

My SS/Fire/Pyre Brute loves the new changes.

I should be there. My Dark Armor Brute is going to love all of these Emps.

Mind Control. See signature for why.