brawling is what everybody is using for hard light. not really even a flavor of the month weapon, it's just that good and functional for hard light. the weapon strikes and powers clip ideally, the power regen rate is fantastic, and the dual damage from the timed hard light damage abilities and brawling's own strikes is massive.
Chainsaw, lightweight, pi applicator, ram>whipthrash clip. Handclap is great but power hungry so its situational. Well, a lot of HL is great but power hungry. There's all kindd of great rotations.