Martial Arts/Dark Armor suggestions

[Wild Claw]

When i originally built my first CoH character, 'Wild Claw', he was a Claws/Regen Scrapper (This was before CoV existed, let alone Going Rogue), and I kept rerolling him over and over again through various powersets and archetypes because nothing really clicked for him. Independent to each other Martial Arts felt right, Dark Armor felt right, and Brute felt right... but all the way to shutdown this combination didn't exist. So he kinda got put in the 'alts I RP with, but I don't actually play' bin.

 

With Homecoming a MA/DA Brute is a possibility!

 

So are there any good rule-of-thumb stuff that would apply to building one of these? Anything I need to watch out for so I don't get stuck in some dead-end scenarios and the like?

 

If it matters, I primarily solo as at the moment I have abysmal ping (no cable to my house, so I'm on satellite internet) and i don't want to frustrate a team with my constant rubber-banding and slow response time.