I'm basically just going pure STR for damage.

Skill Speed, if I'm not mistaken, reduces the GCD timer and auto-attack timer minimally with low values, but it could be significant later on. With 244 Skill Speed at level 36 only, it's brought down my GCD to 2.45s down from 2.5, I believe. If I can bring that down to 2.2 or so when I'm 50, that's a huge DPS boost.