While leveling up if not picking STR you may be under the cap with Shaman STR. At 60, if you have decent gear (not BiS) and are stacking SV's; whether FR/CR in HoT or SV magic for fights with fear mobs, you might be under cap still with Focus.
Worst case you end up with more strength than you need so when you run hp gear like HGL's and chokidai pauldrons/imbued granites you arent at risk of dropping below the cap.
There will be situations where you wont have access to a shaman strength buff either. The 2nd best strength buff available to a rogue, Girdle of Karana, is 25 points lower than Focus.
IMHO, all that matters is dps and surviving. If you can cap strength in almost any situation buffed with SV gear more power to ya.
Let's say you raid a lot, get some really amazing gear, and fully buffed up have around 5000 hps with a rogue. That's solid. Now imagine picking Stamina at creation and now having 5080 hps. This is the best-case scenario...80hps.
Really though, do whatever ya want. It wont break your toon either way but no, not all stats cap in Velious. You can wear a TBB, gauntlets of potence, and fire emerald rings but, ugh.
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