My Orc build will end up looking like:
Str: 327 (maxed attributes)
Con: 158
Dex: 240 (maxed attributes)
Vit: 71
Int: 148
Wis: 66
As I'm heading up to about lvl 40, I will decide the optimal need for resists. The HP for CON is basically nil, but if the resists are really important, then I will stop plugging INT, and start raising Con instead.
The way I see it though, Str = hate, Dex = mit and hate(critting is mega hate), Int = hate if you can get enough so that your spiritual spells are doing 4-digit nukes (remember guys, DC5 = 20% debuff to opponent's spiritual resist...20% increase to spiritual damage dealt...all of our spells except a few are spiritual)
In almost every endgame experience I've encountered...after the first month or so, when everything is shaky and noone truly knows what to do...hate generation and keeping agro become more important than having 200 extra HP, or 8 more resist. Hate becomes more important than that 2% extra mitigation. This is because: healers will be able to keep you up...as long as they're not being squished.
In a dmg-based hate game, I have confidence that the more damage I can deal, the better tank I will be. I am not at all worried about my 240-max DEX, or my relatively low CON. I am excited about my 327 STR.
I may be unorthodox, but my server will know me.
~Cevantez Kaervek, Orc Dreadnought and Scion of The Seraphim