While there's merit to the concept of building your character with high-end Velious in mind, I agree with Ektar. A player should build his character around his own specific needs. I know of at least seven tanks who quit early on because they took the usual advice of putting everything into stamina, then found they had no fun running around constantly encumbered. The 'perfect' stat build, far from doing those players any good, drove them out of even playing! That's seven I do know; how many more are there? Perhaps that's part of the reason I see groups complaining about a lack of tanks.
Also as Ektar notes, stat allocation becomes more important to weaker races. That Ogre Warrior can dump his 25 points into Charisma for all it would matter--he'd have great stats anyway. On the other end of things, an Erudite Paladin will have weak stats in some way or another regardless of what the player chooses.
Point being: Do what works for you. In the long run, equipment can overcome nearly any stat deficiency, so you can't permanently ruin your character. Rather, your race and stat choice may cause some temporary hardship at some point or another, whether it's early on ('man this bronze armor is heavy!') or later down the road ('I'd sure like another 10 or 15 points of stamina!'). For those who actually will reach end-game Velious, starting points--and even race--means very little.
Oh, and let's not forget the final impact of stat allocation: At most, these types of stat changes will affect your character by a few percent in the long run. It's nothing people should fret over too much.
Danth
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