You're going to want some typed defense in there.
Relying on pure regen isn't going to keep you alive in difficult content. When you're in a large spawn, having little or no defense means you're going to be getting hit a lot, and if 10-12 things are beating on you at once, it can and will overwhelm your regen.
You should be able to get around 30% to all types without sacrificing a whole lot of recharge. Also, Recharge is less valuable for WP than some other sets. The only benefit it has is in speeding up your attacks. Personally, I'd rather be more survivable and attack somewhat slower than attack faster and be squishy.
Having all the recharge in the world won't do you much good when you're faceplanted....unless you want it to bring your rez back faster.
There's nothing especially wrong with your build, but I think you are drastically overestimating how well pure regeneration is going to keep you alive.
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In addition to Claws's advice, I'd also like to point out that sets with large amounts of innate Regeneration (WP and Regen) derive more benefit from +HP bonuses than +Regen bonuses.
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Originally Posted by StormDevil
In addition to Claws's advice, I'd also like to point out that sets with large amounts of innate Regeneration (WP and Regen) derive more benefit from +HP bonuses than +Regen bonuses.
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Kinetic Combat in your single target attacks for S/L defense and some HP, Eradication in your PBAoEs for E/N defense and a LOT of HP (largest non-purple HP bonus there is). I'd fill in the 5th slot in the single targets with a Nucleolus Hami-O and the remaining 2 slots in the PBAoEs with Scirocco's Dervish Acc/Rech and Dam/Rech.
If you run a lot of Tip missions while you're leveling you can get the pricier ones of those sets with Alignment merits.
Defense is pretty crucial to a WP character, though. If you dive into a spawn and your enemies fire 1800 damage worth of attacks at you, with no defense you will take an average of 900 points of that. And they will do that at least twice before you can kill them all off. Your passive regen is not going to be able to keep up with that kind of damage without help. /Regen can get away with it because it has click heal powers, Willpower doesn't have that luxury.
It is far better to layer your mitigation than to get a lot of one type of mitigation and hope it sees you through. What makes Willpower so tough is it's ability to have decent resists, a lot of defense, and a crap ton of regen. Any one of those alone won't do you much good. Two of them is better, but all 3 gives you several layers your enemies have to go through to defeat you.
Defense is the first layer, that stops things from hitting you in the first place. Defense will drastically reduce the amount of damage you are taking all by itself.
Then comes resistance. Resistance reduces the damage of whatever manages to get through your defense.
The third layer is healing/regeneration. That will heal back anything the resistance and defense didn't mitigate.
If all you have is the resistance and regeneration, you will be hoping that you can kill all of your enemies before their damage output overwhelms your mitigation. In the higher levels with a Willpower, you shouldn't count on being able to do that all the time.
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I rolled one of these as another concept toon. Still low lvl but I was wondering if the knockback portions of Thunderstrike and Lightning Rod would be counter-productive for RttC and would be slightly detrimental to survivability. Is this a legit concern or is it much smaller than one would think? Not to hijack the thread, just a question that sort of ties into the build.
The Knockback is actually low enough to cause Knockdown instead. It keeps them on their fannys in your Rise to the Challenge thereby mitigating their damage and allowing you to keep high levels of regen! 
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Awesome, thanks for the hasty reply!
Never really played a brute that i have gotten past lvl 30ish but i think this might be the one.
Pve, mainly worked on trying to get high regen and rech. I think this build will work well.
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Level 50 Magic Brute
Primary Power Set: Electrical Melee
Secondary Power Set: Willpower
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leadership
Ancillary Pool: Mu Mastery
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Level 1: Havoc Punch
(A) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage
(3) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance
(3) Crushing Impact - Damage/Recharge
(5) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
(5) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
Level 1: High Pain Tolerance
(A) Resist Damage IO
(7) Resist Damage IO
(7) Numina's Convalescence - Heal
(9) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance
(9) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
Level 2: Jacobs Ladder
(A) Obliteration - Chance for Smashing Damage
(11) Obliteration - Accuracy/Recharge
(11) Obliteration - Damage/Recharge
(13) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
(13) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
(50) Endurance Modification IO
Level 4: Mind Over Body
(A) HamiO:Ribosome Exposure
(15) HamiO:Ribosome Exposure
(15) HamiO:Ribosome Exposure
(43) HamiO:Ribosome Exposure
Level 6: Build Up
(A) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff
(17) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff/Recharge
(17) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff/Endurance/Recharge
(19) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff/Endurance
(19) Adjusted Targeting - Recharge
Level 8: Thunder Strike
(A) Obliteration - Chance for Smashing Damage
(21) Obliteration - Accuracy/Recharge
(21) Obliteration - Damage/Recharge
(23) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
(23) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
(50) Scirocco's Dervish - Chance of Damage(Lethal)
Level 10: Fast Healing
(A) Numina's Convalescence - Heal
(25) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance
(25) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Recharge
(27) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
Level 12: Combat Jumping
(A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
Level 14: Super Jump
(A) Unbounded Leap - +Stealth
Level 16: Indomitable Will
(A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
(46) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
Level 18: Rise to the Challenge
(A) Doctored Wounds - Heal
(27) Doctored Wounds - Recharge
(29) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance
(29) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge
(31) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
Level 20: Quick Recovery
(A) Performance Shifter - EndMod
(31) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Recharge
(31) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Accuracy
(46) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
Level 22: Kick
(A) Empty
Level 24: Tough
(A) HamiO:Ribosome Exposure
(33) HamiO:Ribosome Exposure
(33) HamiO:Ribosome Exposure
Level 26: Hasten
(A) Recharge Reduction IO
(33) Recharge Reduction IO
(34) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 28: Heightened Senses
(A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
(34) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
(34) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
Level 30: Chain Induction
(A) Hecatomb - Chance of Damage(Negative)
(37) Hecatomb - Damage/Recharge
(37) Hecatomb - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
(37) Hecatomb - Accuracy/Recharge
(39) Hecatomb - Damage/Endurance
Level 32: Lightning Rod
(A) Armageddon - Chance for Fire Damage
(39) Armageddon - Damage/Recharge
(39) Armageddon - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
(40) Armageddon - Accuracy/Recharge
(40) Armageddon - Damage/Endurance
(40) Obliteration - Chance for Smashing Damage
Level 35: Maneuvers
(A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
Level 38: Resurgence
(A) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 41: Electrifying Fences
(A) Gravitational Anchor - Chance for Hold
(42) Gravitational Anchor - Immobilize/Recharge
(42) Gravitational Anchor - Accuracy/Immobilize/Recharge
(42) Gravitational Anchor - Accuracy/Recharge
(43) Gravitational Anchor - Immobilize/Endurance
Level 44: Ball Lightning
(A) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage
(45) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance
(45) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge
(45) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
(46) Positron's Blast - Chance of Damage(Energy)
Level 47: Mu Lightning
(A) Apocalypse - Chance of Damage(Negative)
(48) Apocalypse - Damage/Recharge
(48) Apocalypse - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
(48) Apocalypse - Accuracy/Recharge
(50) Apocalypse - Damage/Endurance
Level 49: Tactics
(A) Endurance Reduction IO
Level 50: Cardiac Core Paragon
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Level 1: Brawl
(A) Empty
Level 1: Fury
Level 1: Sprint
(A) Empty
Level 2: Rest
(A) Empty
Level 4: Ninja Run
Level 2: Swift
(A) Empty
Level 2: Health
(A) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery
(36) Miracle - +Recovery
Level 2: Hurdle
(A) Empty
Level 2: Stamina
(A) Performance Shifter - EndMod
(36) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Recharge
(36) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Accuracy
(43) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
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