DPS Warrior Specs

[Concillian]

I think this belt is an upgrade over Deathforge Girdle for both profiles. It's a quest reward from Shadowmoon Valley.

Also, did you account for sockets? The DW helm contains 2 yellow and 1 blue socket and a socket bonus of 4STR. Of course you've got many combinations of gems to fill out those sockets with.
I'd think 16HR + 4Str or 8HR + 8Agl + (4CR|4Str) would be the most likely selections.

Same with the boots which have 2 yellow sockets. Plus a 3STR socket bonus.

-WimpySmurf

The gearing was just kind of quickly looking at decent gearing, after looking more at it there are some other problems... like the DW chestpiece is a reward for an Aldor quest line and the gloves are a reward from a parallel Scryer line ( you can actually do both without too much difficulty if you do them before you choose one or the other, but that gearing is not really "practical") I was mainly trying to look at a decent blue gearing level and compare damage. I'm not claiming totally ideal gearing

That said....

On socketing I assume green gems, I mine a fair bit and have a nice stockpile of gems (about 5 of each type of green gems on an alt) for sending to GG to cut for me. If I get a new item with sockets... green gems are in them the next day.

Belt:
Deathforge is better after socketing:
Quest reward:
26 STR = 52 AP
26 AGI is about 0.82% crit

compare to Deathforge:
22 STR = 44 AP (inferior)
20 Crit rating is about 0.90% crit (superior)
put a 6 STR gem in the red socket and anything in the blue and you are up to:
28 STR = 56 AP (directly superior)

so regardless of what the "best gems" are, you are able to make it directly superior.

As for gems, I modeled the basic melee damage enhancing gems in my current gear and got the following results...
2H:
If you don't have enough hit to cap it, hit is always best (missing really hurts a 2H build)
STR / AP trumps Crit in the event that you have enough hit, but the difference is small.

For the DW builds the order changes around:
Hit is most important up to the point where you are hitting all yellow swings (I've estimated these at 5-8% depending on what you're fighting)
Beyond that Crit > STR > Hit at the itemization values given to the gems (+6 STR or hit rating or crit rating on a single gem them)
This is probably a dynamic order, in that it will likely change depending on what the current AP , crit%, and hit% are. when I checked I was looking at ~1230 / 22.6% / 11.2% and with less than ideal level 70 weapons (Terokk's Nightmace and Amani Venom-axe)