Just to be thorough, there is one reason why you would want to dump into STA as your starting stat. That is to save a buff slot by capping STA without the need for Riotous Health and/or Primal Essence. Saving buff slots is very useful, and not always easy to do.
However, I myself run at full buffs and don't really feel the need to reduce my buff count by one. Shamans do run out of useful buffs to cast on themselves. This strategy would only really be useful to someone who knows the game well, and is anticipating running a specific set of buffs that would be hindered by having Riotous Health present.
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