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Originally Posted by Lune
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If you're soloing something that takes your entire mana bar while leveling you're doing it wrong, and max mana is only going to come into play during leveling in fringe cases. Strength/STA is going to help an iksar all day every day until the very tip top raid gear that, statistically, OP will never see. I doubt he's going to be capping those stats on an iksar with droppables.
Again, INT does absolutely nothing to help with the fact that OP is going to be using more mana unless he's spiking from 100 to 0 which should be quite rare
Like, 90% chance this dude just ends up being a lvl 41 iksar SK with 142 STR, 158 STA, and all his points in INT lol. Long, long ago somebody compiled a distribution of all the classes at various levels over a long period of time. Something like 80% of all hybrids abandoned their class in the 40's/low 50's, far higher than other classes. When the reality of what the class is sets in, and the breezy leveling experience tapers off, very few stick with it. Meanwhile he's gonna be encumbered all day and killing more slowly because he went INT for the very specific situation of being 60, raid buffed, and raid geared. Cmon
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The problem with this kind of thinking is you don't take into account the simple fact that people can change their minds about a character after creation. Generally speaking if you care about starting stats (which should be the assumption since OP is asking about them), you should always think about the long term, not the short term.
For the long term, put your points into INT because it will help you at all levels, including level 60 with BiS gear.
STR is very easy to get with EC gear. There is no reason to assume OP cannot get more than enough STR for carrying everything and doing good DPS when they have multiple level 60 characters. Having 140+ STR as a level 41 Iksar SK is already good enough. That plus Shralok Packs will allow you to carry everything you need, while having good DPS.
I am really not sure where people got the idea that you need to have 200+ STR while leveling to thrive. This simply isn't true.