I disagree with Shannon that end reds aren't that needed. One end red SO in the toggles will not cut it by a long shot. Unless you will always have some form of +end power on you from someone else.
Elec melee primary is a very endurance heavy set, On Sapphic Shock, even with her IO sets to give a ~40-50% reduction in all attacks and 70-80% in the toggles she will still run out of end in prolonged fights, and as a brute, you don't want to stop, ever. Cause that means bye bye fury.
Because of that i took away hasten, because it's a stupid end hog and you don't really need it, but if you really do want it, take it instead of electrifying fences and remove some slots from tough to make it recharge faster.
I also put in fighting pool, with the idea of running only weave, tough is there and slotted just incase you do get some end boost power. Aid Self is kinda nice to have, but it often becomes a choise between aid self or weave, and with SOs only, weave will take the lead, cause the more def you have, the less you need to heal. And the closer you get to def cap the better defense becomes.
My SO build gives only 30% defense solo, which is very low and will make you quite squishy. But it's a start, once you get enough defensive set bonuses, you can drop weave (the entire fighting pool).
The sets i would start with are The gaussian in build up (you'd have to assign all 6 slots to build up tho). And try get your hands on the steadfast +def IO. It shouldn't be too hard to get the 125 merits it costs if you do some SFs while levelling up.
Taunt is useless imo, this build puts out silly amounts of aoe damage and will take out large groups with just two powers, the bosses left and pretty easily taunted using just melee attacks. (all brute attacks have taunt in them).
One with the shield i barely ever use. Mostly only when i need the +recovery. So i dunno if i wanna put slots into it. I like the whole idea of not getting hit, and if you don't get hit, you don't need that resistance. Tho i spose with SOs you are gonna get hit... a fair amount.
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SO Build: Level 50 Science Brute
Primary Power Set: Electrical Melee
Secondary Power Set: Shield Defense
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leaping
Ancillary Pool: Mu Mastery
Villain Profile:
Level 1: Havoc Punch -- Acc(A)
, Acc(3)
, Dmg(3)
, Dmg(5)
, Dmg(5)
, EndRdx(7)
Level 1: Deflection -- EndRdx(A)
, EndRdx(7)
, EndRdx(9)
, DefBuff(9)
, DefBuff(11)
, DefBuff(50)
Level 2: Battle Agility -- EndRdx(A)
, EndRdx(11)
, EndRdx(13)
, DefBuff(13)
, DefBuff(15)
, DefBuff(50)
Level 4: True Grit -- Heal(A)
, Heal(15)
, Heal(17)
, ResDam(45)
, ResDam(48)
Level 6: Swift -- Run(A)
Level 8: Thunder Strike -- Acc(A)
, Acc(17)
, Dmg(19)
, Dmg(19)
, Dmg(21)
, EndRdx(21)
Level 10: Active Defense -- RechRdx(A)
, RechRdx(23)
Level 12: Boxing -- Acc(A)
, Acc(23)
, Dmg(25)
, Dmg(25)
, Dmg(27)
, EndRdx(27)
Level 14: Health -- Heal(A)
, Heal(29)
, Heal(29)
Level 16: Against All Odds -- EndRdx(A)
, EndRdx(48)
Level 18: Chain Induction -- Acc(A)
, Acc(31)
, Dmg(31)
, Dmg(31)
, Dmg(33)
, RechRdx(33)
Level 20: Stamina -- EndMod(A)
, EndMod(33)
, EndMod(34)
Level 22: Combat Jumping -- DefBuff(A)
Level 24: Super Jump -- Jump(A)
Level 26: Phalanx Fighting -- DefBuff(A)
Level 28: Build Up -- RechRdx(A)
, RechRdx(34)
, RechRdx(34)
Level 30: Jacobs Ladder -- Acc(A)
, Acc(36)
, Dmg(36)
, Dmg(36)
, Dmg(37)
, EndRdx(37)
Level 32: Lightning Rod -- Acc(A)
, Dmg(37)
, Dmg(39)
, Dmg(39)
, RechRdx(39)
, RechRdx(40)
Level 35: Shield Charge -- Acc(A)
, Dmg(40)
, Dmg(40)
, Dmg(42)
, RechRdx(42)
, RechRdx(42)
Level 38: Tough -- EndRdx(A)
, EndRdx(46)
, ResDam(46)
, ResDam(46)
, ResDam(48)
Level 41: Weave -- EndRdx(A)
, EndRdx(43)
, EndRdx(43)
, DefBuff(43)
, DefBuff(45)
, DefBuff(45)
Level 44: Electrifying Fences -- Acc(A)
Level 47: Grant Cover -- EndRdx(A)
, EndRdx(50)
Level 49: One with the Shield -- Heal(A)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Fury