Monk on a new server: STR or STA?

[Legidias]

Id argue that early game, maxed sta is way better given no twink or available HP items, since mend scales with total HP. The very small increase in DPS from STR would be overshadowed by better survivability (remember, monks pretty much just have AC armor and no stats for a majority of vanilla) with more heals from mend.

IF you wanted to look at end game, everyone knows STA is better than str too.