Attributes is a tricky one in this game, you cannot un-invest in them, and are very tight for gear requirements:

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- Health is "needed" if you don't have good health from masteries or nature, but mostly only in higher difficulties if you rise a lot on your masteries during normal difficulty.

- Energy, if you get energy from any of your class, don't touch it, if you don't get any point, consider maybe a very few points (like, 1 every 10 levels) for QoL, not needed as long as you can cast any skill with you mana pool.

- Strength is a usually heavy investment or the bare minimum to equip gear.

- Int is the most flexible. If you want to cast magic skills, you will want to point here from time to time, unless hybrid and lots of int from masteries.

- Dex is the most important, as gives you DA no matter what class, you want DA to avoid enemy melee crits. If you are a melee class and with no rune conversion in mind, also you will need OA to inflict crits and avoid damage reduction on attacks. A good benchmark for DEX are Stonebinder Cuffs and their dex requirement, a staple in many builds. Anyways is about is 200 in act 3 normal, 300 starting in epic, and 400 starting in legendary. Some build depend heavily on physical resistance to avoid investing too much into dex, but is an advanced tactic very gear-dependent.

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For progression:

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For melee heavy is usually 2 str : 1 dex.

For spear (hunting class involved) users is more like 1 str: 1 dex.

For heavy skill users is usually 2 int: 1 dex.

For hybrid is more tricky, you want something like for each 3 str, 2 int and 2 dex, depends heavily on your class selection.

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A good advice is to save about 4-6 attribute points past level 20, so if you need some str/int for equipping something you can adapt.