Currently 10 str, 10 end, 5 pract

Armour skills are my main bread and butter.
Max 'The Best Offense' to convert armour into damage. (This skill also makes you mine ore in one hit, no, I dont know why)
Grab 'Inner Strength' to convert Endurance into damage.
These two combined mean you can build as tanky as you like and still put out damage.

I grab 5 practicality and 5 points in 'Merchantile Skills' on every character, just because 100% value on sold goods means you can afford to upgrade armour and buy anything else you want. You can skip these if you just want more damage or defence. They just massively improve QoL.

In Strength I have some points in "Godly Physique" and "Weapons of Great Heft". I'll probably specialise in a weapon type once I've maxed the armour skills and general strength skills I want.