Tough+Weave gets my nod, Maneuvers doesn't. The effect of the latter is far too small to take yet another toggle and you will be nigh-immortal anyway.
Tough+Weave on the other hand give you just enough damage mitigation that you will very often find yourself actually regenerating heatlth inside a mob spawn rather than losing any. WP is fine without both, but reduces the harshness of an enemy alpha which is after all the main weakness of WP.
With my EM/WP brute I solo AVs and Heroes with ease and I genuinely lol'ed at Numina and Sister Psyche. 
If it has eyes, you can blind it, if it has blood, you can make it bleed, if it has a mouth, you can make it scream.
Or get aid self and save a couple of toggles.
Aid Self doesn't help with spike damage though, which is usually what kills a Willpower character. I'd personally pick up Tough and only get Weave if you feel you need to.
@Jay Leon Hart
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Its doing an excellent job of keeping my lvl 49 one alive with a couple of interupt reducers in it
I'll rephrase that - alpha strikes will still (likely) kill you in teams 
@Jay Leon Hart
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In my opinion you don't need the empower and weaken combo. You have a perfectly flowing attack chain by just using attack vitals and sweep. Could be just taste ofcourse
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I'll rephrase that - alpha strikes will still (likely) kill you in teams
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Well yes there is that slight problem
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In my opinion you don't need the empower and weaken combo. You have a perfectly flowing attack chain by just using attack vitals and sweep. Could be just taste ofcourse
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Thats about all i use now.
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I suppose then that you don't have Nimble Slash and Blinding Feint anymore. So do you need to slot recharge reductions in the remaining attack powers ?
I have this char on the test, and it's a DB/elec, so I got a little extra recharge. But you could easily do that with combining some cheap, crappy sets.
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I suppose then that you don't have Nimble Slash and Blinding Feint anymore. So do you need to slot recharge reductions in the remaining attack powers ?
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Blinding Feint kicks [censored]. Don't drop it. Hands up all the Claws Scrappers who don't have Follow Up. Nigh on 40% damage buff all the time? Yes please.
@Rooks
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Hello,
i'm just leveling a DB/WP Brute following this build:
Archetype: Brute
Primary: Dual Blades
Secondary: Willpower
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01 => High Pain Tolerance ==> Empty(1)
01 => Nimble Slash ==> Empty(1)
02 => Ablating Strike ==> Empty(2)
04 => Mind Over Body ==> Empty(4)
06 => Typhoon's Edge ==> Empty(6)
08 => Blinding Feint ==> Empty(8)
10 => Indomitable Will ==> Empty(10)
12 => Combat Jumping ==> Empty(12)
14 => Super Jump ==> Empty(14)
16 => Fast Healing ==> Empty(16)
18 => Rise to the Challenge ==> Empty(18)
20 => Quick Recovery ==> Empty(20)
22 => Vengeful Slice ==> Empty(22)
24 => Hurdle ==> Empty(24)
26 => Sweeping Strike ==> Empty(26)
28 => Heightened Senses ==> Empty(28)
30 => Health ==> Empty(30)
32 => One Thousand Cuts ==> Empty(32)
35 => Stamina ==> Empty(35)
38 => Strength of Will ==> Empty(38)
For the next powers as of level 41 i'm not quite sure.
Since this is a PvE only build, would it be a good idea to
max out the damage resistance with taking tough and the defense with weave and maybe maneuvers ? If this build would do fine in most situations without taking the fighting pool i would maybe pick some powers from other pools. I'm only on level 27 right now (no heightened senses yet) and having no big problems in teams or solo up to now. (Only problem was Silver Mantis , couldn't defeat her alone and she was 2 levels above mine).
Thx for any advices.