Str and equipping gear

[Jumped Up Pantry Boy]

So the impression I get is this; people don't invest heavily in strength, instead they'll do something like...

1) Invest Str so you can equip one piece of gear with a +str enchantment
2) This allows you to equip another piece of gear with more +str...

And so on and so on to varying degrees. And you can also use charms to increase your strength meaning, potentially, you'lll invest very few hard points into strength which seems to be fairly irrelevant if you're willing to invest this time and effort in getting around it. This means more hit points or dex.

So I guess my specific question is how many hard points should I put into strength as a Necromancer wanting to equip the whole Trang set. None of the pieces have str bonuses, but it does leave my jewelry slots free.
Second question would be how common are charms and jewelry with +strength and are these things I should be focussing on acquiring?

Cheers guys, this seems simple on the surface but I lack the experience to know the fine detail :)

[stephan]

Don't use stat charms (except for torch and anni of course): life charms are better.

Just put in whatever you need, 10 more or less in vita is not that important. Most of my chars don't even use their last ~50 stat points unless I'm really sure they are never going to change gear.

[Kennoth]

If you want my opinion: when making a good char, its very important to already determine which items he is going to wear, so you can know which stat points you have to invest on certain attribute. Idk exatly but lets say your set requires 50 strenght. And lets say you have both anni and torch + your starting strenght so you invest another 10 and mass the rest into vita/energy.

[Jumped Up Pantry Boy]

Gotcha. I've got my eye on the trang set, which is pretty high str req as it happens - especially the belt. So I'll look for items in the free slots that also have +str to them. Cheers :)

[catalogguy]

On my mules I keep a good supply of str charms and a titan +20 str ring. These help while you build your char so you can reserve some points until you are ready to make those tough decisions.

[Pitboss_2000]

None of the pieces have str bonuses

The wing/shield has +25 STR.

[Jumped Up Pantry Boy]

I noticed that and it made me happy. :)