ClawsandEffect

Aett Thorn's build is the better of the two for my purposes, though Hyperstrike's has some good ideas in it.

The addition of the Fighting Pool will help out immensely with survival, I would almost go so far as to say it is mandatory for a Willpower tank. Tanks get more benefit from Fighting than any other AT. They get more S/L resistance from Tough, and more defense out of Weave, which adds to the typed defense you alrady have in Heightened Senses.

Back to what I was saying:

As far as your attacks go, both of the guys that posted builds have the right idea. Kinetic Combat for S/L defense (if you can't afford them, Smashing Haymaker is a workable alternative)

I would slot Foot Stomp with 4 Eradication and 2 Scirocco's Dervish. Several reasons for that. Eradication provides 2 things Willpower wants more of, typed defense and max HP.
Scirocco's Dervish provides 10% regen for just 2 slots, which is another thing WP wants as much of as it can get. Obliteration isn't a bad set, but Eradication/Scirocco's is better suited for Willpower.

You skipped Rage entirely, that is a HUGE mistake for any Super Strength character. Without Rage, Super Strength is among the lower damaging sets available to tanks, with it it gets near the top. I would slot it with a couple recharge IOs and a couple Rectified Reticles for the 1.88% S/L defense it gives for 2 slots.

You said your goal is a team-based agro magnet, and the build you posted would not be very good at that.

RttC is not the best taunt aura (it's actually the worst one available to any tanker), so things are prone to peel away if someone else hits them hard enough. The thing it is very good at is cranking up your regen rate so you can heal back any damage dealt to you. With no heal slotting in it it won't be doing that very well, and like I said earlier, the to-hit debuff slotting in there is just barely this side of pointless.

Both myself and Aett mentioned that the amount of damage you do directly affects how well you hold agro, slotting your attacks for damage will make them more effective at taunting. Also, if the worst happens and there is a team wipe other than you, you will not be defeating anything if you're dealing no real damage. And with the slotting of your survival powers, you probably won't stay on your feet very long yourself.

Another note: You slotted a full set of Panacea in Health. Couple problems with that: A) it is way overslotting that power, and B) Are you aware of how expensive that set is? You're looking at 3-4 billion inf on that one power alone (the proc routinely goes for 2 billion, and the rest of the set is in the 200-500 million range) Unless you actually have several billion influence just sitting around, or already have the full set, I would seriously recommend slotting something else. Health isn't as good as Fast Healing, so that's where I stick the various heal set procs. I'd go with the Numina's unique and the Regenerative Tissue unique. (You're Willpower, so you shouldn't need the extra recovery from the Miracle +Rec proc) There you go, 4 slots saved for better slotting of your attacks. With those extra slots, and the ones you'll be saving by slotting Reactive Armor instead of Titanium Coating, you should be able to slot your Kinetic Combat or Smashing Haymakers.

Hope that helps you out, there's more I could go into, but I've shoved enough information at you for now

PS: Drop Resurgence. If you build more like we're advising, you won't be needing it

PPS: I'll post a build when I get home from work to give you another take on it.

You want typed defense, not positional. If you look at Heightened Senses it gives you good defense to Energy/N.Energy/Fire/Cold, and a small amount to S/L. It gives ZERO defense to melee/ranged/AoE.

So, you're getting 1.25% defense to S/L out of those Titanium Coatings you have 6 of slotted in all your resistance powers. You could get the same amount out of FOUR Reactive Armors, and get some E/N defense as well.

Also, 2 of your most important powers are woefully mis-slotted. You have High Pain Tolerance slotted with 6 Titanium Coatings. That is bad for 2 reasons: A) I already explained that you are using 6 slotes to get the same benefit you could get from 4 of a different set, and B) the most important feature of HPT is the fact that it raises your max HP as a passive power (meaning it's always on, giving you the benefit 100% of the time). As such, HPT should be slotted for healing FIRST, and then maybe slotted for a little resistance (I just put 3 Numina's Convalescence and a Steadfast Res/Def in mine)

Second power, Rise to the Challenge. It has the effect of dramatically increasing your regeneration rate, which is fueled by the number of mobs in melee range of you. You didn't slot it for healing at all (which is how you increase the regen rate). Slotting for to-hit debuff is a waste, because A) the amount it debuffs by isn't really worth slotting for, and B) it only affects things in melee range of you (anyone shooting from outside melee range will remain unaffected by it). I would slot that one with Numina's as well (the 2 and 3 slot bonuses are regen and max HP respectively), and if you have a could slots left over, throw a couple generic Taunt IOs in there. RttCs taunt duration is really short, and agro can be pulled off you easily, slottng for taunt will make that harder to do.

Slot your attacks better than they are. Part of how well you can hold agro is how much damage you are dealing to them. Even with attacks slotted for taunt duration, the first time a Fire blaster really opens up on them, they are going to peel right off of you.

I'll have more for you in a couple hours on my next break at work, but your build is in need of serious help.

Couple points:

I almost never use Aim, that's why it is so late in the build. It's there strictly as a mule for a couple Rectified Reticles.

Bitter Freeze Ray is a mule for a set of 4 Basilisk's Gaze. I don't really have any plans on using it, but I suppose it will come in handy if I want to hold a boss at range. The Basilisk's Gaze gives me 2.5% Energy/N.Energy defense for 2 slots, and 7.5% recharge for 4.

Since the build is softcapped to the 3 most common damage types, I should be able to spend more time in melee, making Lightning Field worth the pick for me (it will also help keep things drained after a Power Sink)

I haven't taken a travel power on a character other than Fly (for concept) since I got the Martial Arts pack. I've found Ninja Run is just fine for 99% of situations. Super Jump is in there mostly because there really wasn't anything else I wanted. The only time I won't be able to use Ninja Run is for Master TF runs, which I will be at 50 for and have access to SJ.

Fighting and Leadership are in there because A) I couldn't have hit the softcap to all 3 types without them, and B) they give me room for a couple more LotGs. Tough gives me a place for the Steadfast Res/Def.

Leadership means I bring something else to a team besides just damage. I help out a little bit with defense, and boost everyone's damage a little bit by running Assault. Since I don't have any AoEs other than Blizzard, I figured it'd be nice to bring something to the table.

My build is very much aimed at hitting the softcap to S/L/E, which I succeeded in, without really gimping myself in the process, which I was happy with. Probably does just boil down to playstyle differences.

Generally +1 or +0 x8. My brute is DM/SR, so I don't like to up the mob level too much or it just takes him too long to kill them. He has Mu Mastery, with a Posi's Blast proc in ELectrifying Fences, so he puts out decent AoE damage, but if they are orange or tougher I just stand there spamming AoEs and punching stuff for way too long for my taste.

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Either it's good enough that no one sees any possible improvements, or it's bad enough no one wants to say anything for fear of me hearing them laugh

My brute took Taunt as his level 49 power (mostly because I needed a power that I didn't have to slot).

Since I only really use it on TFs (pulling the healing Nictus away on ITFs is one thing I've used it for), losing it below level 44 doesn't really hurt me, since I lose my softcap when I drop below 47 anyway.

It's skippable, but nice to have for the situations where you need to pull agro off squishies and can't run over there to punch 'em. (The enemy mobs, not the squishies )