Whats you budget? 
With weave and granite defence, you might be able to even go softcap defence, along with capped resist. Get some extra +sprint bonus, along 3 slotted swift.
But even with alot of +sprint, you wont move 'normaly' with rooted/granite.
or weapon, i would say mace. Slightly better then axe, but both look 'weird' on a supersize pile of rock.
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i think they look good 
Duel Blades looks abit silly on a granite id say.. and the recharge might break a few combo's
Then i would focus on +regen and +health (for cap), then where possible +movement and use heroplanner to see how much you need on resist/defence to hit as high possible. Also get some psi def/resist sets, as granite lacks that part.
I'm really not familiair with IO sets, but i think you can get pretty far without 'borking up' your build.
But, for movement you will need a kin if you go rooted/granite. (granite or rooted alone you can move decently with just 3slot swift).
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I have a fire/stone brute who is pretty speedy using a combination of kinetic combat and Gift of the ancients he can move about at ruffly sprint speed while using Rooted but if i stick granite on along with it its back to a crawl.
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That's no recharge penalty within Granite, and the toon runs at over 20MPH whilst in Granite (with Rooted off - you usually don't need both Rooted AND Granite on when you're moving). Resistances in Granite are sick, Defence is over 42% to everything but Psi. You'll have a very, very hard time ever dying in PVE even if you go AFK in the middle of Lusca.
Out of Granite it's got Perma Earths Embrace (it's nearly perma in Granite while Hasten's up) regens 75 HP per second and has 50% Defence versus Psi, 36% Defence versus S/L/E/N and just shy of 40% S/L Resistance.
Mudpots, slotted Taunt, plus the one-two spammable knockdown combo of Fault and Tremor means you'll be an aggro magnet and virtually unkillable in PvE. Out of granite the Damage output is very respectable too, although the build does not quite have room for "Build Up" (Granite's damage debuff will trim about 50 Damage from a 350 Damage "Seismic Smash", and make it recharge in 7 seconds instead of a little under 6).
The downside is it's [u]VERY[u] expensive. And whilst damage output is respectable, it's not the best.
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Some thoughts from when I was building my speedy damage-dealing tanker. While yours is a pure tanker where Abs is a scranker, some of the ideas might rub off. (Sadly, those are not exactly the builds I ended up using - the real results were a lot cheaper, and still working great)
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I looked at putting +runspeeds in a Stonetank but the downsides to squeezing out the little half a feets in running faster just didn't appeal. I'd much rather focus on other assets and tp about with tp at low end cost. Taunt would naturally be 6 slotted and it is -range now. Also if so wanted Stone/Stone tanks could conceptually get Earth Mastery and welcome the enemies to their world some with Quicksand. In fact in dealing with AVs like what Stone tanks are most wanted for there is no better epic.
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hey there,
i must admit im a bit biased, i LOVE my stone tank! and i did what your asking! just built a pure 100% tank!
You cant beat stone/stone! (plus the added bonus of a mallet!) throw in TP, hasten and the pressence pool and your set!
stone melee also gives you a few pbaoe's (for extra taunts/argo) + pressence (again an extra taunt) and you just cant taunt fast enough! 
its great!
dont mean to offend anyone, but i hear nothing but +runspeed +runspeed is a must for granites! or stone tanks that refuse to use granite! granite is the BEST! add TP and you dont need +runspeed its completly pointless! if you dont wanna move so slow and not use TP then go for INV and take tough and weave! (my brute build) and its almost just as good!
but anyways thats my opinion! hope you enjoy what ever build you choose!
hey guys, im deleting my ss/stone brute for a stone/..... tank. I want a tank just for pure tanking, i dont care about any dmg output at all.. i jst wanna run as fast as possable with granite and rooted on and be able to take the dmg..id prefer to have a weapon but its not a MUST! which secondary do you think i should go with?