xD i Don't think str is unreliable, or int is too reliable, and that's what i liked more in the game... You can make any type of character and be good with it!
Besides, there's each one opinion behind each character, magic is nice, yeah, but even tho u can get the same regen of 100 str with regen 6, imagine what u can do with both? or yet with regen 15 and str 100? xD
Well... Perhaps my view might be warped, cause, my lvl lately is being much higher than the mobs, after lvl 25, killing monsters is being a piece of cake, i kill the bosses with one Thousand Strikes...
I see this is a game i'll play many times, i'll sure make all types of builds, then, i could, dunno, discuss better about this, as i said, i'm not even totally melee or anything, i have an hybrid build, at lvl 34 i have VIT-45, SPR-3, STR-62, DEX-48 and INT-41 with the ekips i use, very few skills, invested more in "quality" than quantity...