For leveling I would argue that gearing for DPS is actually the route most people should take. You're going to find yourself in very few situations were a couple hundred HP is really going to matter when grinding, and the faster you can kill mobs the faster you can level. I wouldn't pigeon hole yourself as strictly a DPS warrior though - play to all your strengths. By this I mean, if you've got a knight or some other class that can take, throw on that 2hander and drop down to zerker range and go wild, however, if you're far and away the best player in a group to be tanking, you can still do that while geared to DPS.
In terms of gearing yourself, I haven't done any parses, but I'd wager that your wurmmy is going to be quite a bit less damage than faster weapons under normal circumstances (again, I haven't parsed a wurmy, and zerker could affect that as well). For a cheap-ish DPS weapon for a warrior I feel it is kind of hard to beat a Lammy in the main hand, and then the best ratio weapon you can afford in the off hand. Thinking back to live I always thought dual lammy's looked pretty cool though, can you can probably pick a pair up for <5k that will be respectable damage.
In the higher levels, warrior do excellent damage. My warrior is only rocking an RBB (5-10% less than what he probably should be wearing) with epic and is often fairly high up on parses. On average monks and rogues are still going out DPS you, but it isn't uncommon at all for me to out DPS rogues who get unlucky with their backstab dice or lazy monks. With epics the 1handers do more damage than the 2hander when you're not zerking, but that probably isn't something you're gonna have to worry about in the immediate future.
Also, even if you go strictly DPS warrior, don't use offensive discs. They're garbage outside of highly situational instances.
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