Silkroad Beginner’s Guide

In my opinion, STR builds should put close to all their stat points into STR.
 

The 2:1 build is not recommended.
Benefits for adding to your INT aren’t worth the stuff you’ll be losing for not putting it in STR.

When learning Force skills, particularly the first row ones that add damage to your weapon, it is usually best to keep them at lvl1 or 2, not higher, for better MP efficiency.

Also, consider levelling Bowmanship to lvl10 even if you are not a Bow user. The Bowmanship tree has an accuracy passive skill at lvl10 which is beneficial to all STR builds. The physical attack passive in Spearmanship is also obviously beneficial to all but it is only 1% at level 1 Silk Road Gold so it is up to you to determine if it’s worth it

If run speed is important to you level Lightning to lvl12 for Wind Walk skill lvl1

INT builds:
Your main damage skills will be your Force skills.
You will level fast, but will find it hard to beat the high HP of STR builds in PVP later on.

All INT and 1:2 builds are both viable choices. All INT build will do more damage but 1:2 build has more survivability.