Anything under 100 feels a bit crap, and anything under 80 is seriously debilitating.
A full set of banded weighs:
Small - 35.3
Medium - 47
Large - not sure
A full set of bronze weighs:
Small - 64.7
Medium - 86
Large - 107.9
Weapon weight examples:
Ghoulbane - 9.5
Mithril 2h - 8.5
SSoY - 4.5 each
Add backpacks and a few knick-knacks and you could be at your weight limit before you've even looted any mobs. A human in full bronze, typical weapons, bags, food etc. probably has over 100lbs just from the essentials. People may have to stick to banded even when they could have bronze. While you can pour all your starting points into strength, that's a huge short-term band-aid that will end up significantly gimping your character in the long run when you can barely break 100 stamina in planar gear. Once you're tanking endgame stuff and no longer need the extra strength, having put all your points into it is pretty much like playing without rings on.
The advantage of the big races is severely underrated. An ogre shadowknight who invests in stamina has 80 more stamina than a dark elf who had to sink their points into strength in order to function. That's several hundred HP at level 50. Pairing a plate class with a weak race saddles you with a huge and long-lasting disadvantage that really doesn't go away until you're raiding Velious content, and doubly so if you're forced to essentially give up 20 stat points just to carry your gear. Eventually those 20 points in strength stop helping because you've got enough, and then you need like 120 stamina from gear in order to be on equal footing with the big races even with shm buffs, or 180 without.
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