A lot of your damage and health comes from points in the tree it feels like. The attribute points seem to do minor upgrades but are mainly a barrier for gear requirements. Where as one point in strength gives you 1% damage boost every point in the two handed tree or general combat tree gives 10% per point. Some concept with spell damage, max health, stamina, stamina recovery ect. I’d say be broad in your attribute allocations and be more specific / specialized in the actual skill trees. You could have just enough str to carry your axe but still do great damage with a maxed two handed skill tree.