“ I have shown an Iksar SK can get a large amount of STR in easily acquired gear, this can be found here:
https://wiki.project1999.com/Magelo_Blue:TestIksarSK. This shows that you can get enough STR to deal good damage and carry around lots of loot without having to raid.”
The logical choice to upgrade to a Reaver from that horrible Argent Protector (or even to use some nice 1h/shield combos like the Ebon and Ashenbone Shield) will lose you 10 strength. Now down to 162. Leveling up with a shaman you will usually have 60’ish extra strength so 222 out of 255. 10 more with the strength tap that lasts like 5 minutes.
Fast-forward to 60 you will only cap with Maniacal Strength and Focus. As you know shamans have a lot to do on a raid rather than throwing in one more buff. A rational player will just suck it up and deal with Focus. Again, undercapped. 230 buffed strength or 240 if you can land Siphon Strength or I guess carry around a Dark Reaver to stack that too.
If the SK put points into stamina instead of strength at least they wouldn’t be stuck with that 106 shown on the Magelo. They would still be like 74 points from the goal.
Really the link to shared illustrates how marginal little race melee stats are out of the box even if you optimize strength making poor tank armor picks (it looks more ranger than Knight oriented). When you’re still about 20 strength from target and 99 stamina I’d recommend not putting points into intelligence.