My commentary on that course of action would be that Granite also has -Damage and -Accuracy (I think), therefore 3 slots of Recharge will more than counter the -Recharge, however your Acc and Dam will be rather rubbish if you're only giving 3 slots between the two considerations.
Due to being a SS brute I am relying on fury and rage to deal with damage while in granite. I will be keeping all of the armours anyway so if extra damage but less resist is need I can use the other armours.
PS: My attacks will be slotted 2 Acc 3 Recharge and 1 End.
Granite has a -70% recharge penalty (Roughly 2 green recharge SO's) or negated by hasten (for a bit...).
And a -30% damage penalty.
Accuracy is the same.
I went very 'Tanky' on my granite, so made sure defense was a priority over everything else, so my attacks aren't what they could be, as well as taking taunt.
I went 2 acc, 1 end red, 1 recharge in my faster attacks like fire sword and boxing, but I went 3 damage in Fire Sword Circle to do a big alpha when I tp into a new group.
2 recharges should pretty much negate granite's speed penalty, however I find fury is no problem at all on a team, as everything is hitting you 
Solo Granite is a nightmare however you want to play it, so my stoner is set for teams
If I wanted to do damage I would roll another brute (which I have, as well as wanting an eleccy!)
In my opinon though, Granite armour is designed to be 'tanky', thinking about damage too much and fury chains makes me think about rolling another brute!
However I love my stony guy
So would slotting 2 Acc 2 Recharge 1 Dam 1 End work? Recharge to overcome ther - rechrage and damage to overcome -damage. Then just basically build fury as normal?
edit: What about the minus speed how much is that negated with 3 slotted swift?
The 2 Recharge is not quite enough to offset the -70%. If they are green then they are about +66%...but it's pretty close. With enough attacks you should still have a reasonable chain. I still reckon granites best fury method is to be hit a lot, 1 group of 10 bad guys puts you at full fury in about 5 seconds
3 Slotted swift means you run maybe a tiny bit faster than a normal char with no sprint activated (not 100% I haven't really tested it! ), could be about as fast as a normal person with no sprint.
However with rooted, you are still pretty much rooted to 1 spot combined with granite even with 3 slotted swift. (I reckon about 10x slower than normal running....)
Granite has pretty good mez protection on its own, however I have been knocked back once with no rooted running on a big team!...wierd watching granite get back up again hehe
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You're right about that... they do the same acrobatic animation only in Überslow motion, so the Granite Tank/Brute actually does fly 
@Rooks
"You should come inside the box... Then you'll know what I mean."
As granite has a -recharge in it I know I will need hasten but as hasten isnt perma I was wondering if I slot 3 recharge SO's in all my attacks will I still have a decnt attack chain when hasten isnt up?