I generally favour magical damage over physical, since magic damage in many RPGs tends to be more consistent than physical. While you don't get crits... you don't miss either xD And because of the whole, you get an extra turn if you hit an enemy's weakness thing, it was just another reason to go down the mage path. At the low levels where Mana's an issue, I didn't have too many difficulties, since I've played through Persona and learnt how to get maximum bang for my buck xD In New Game+, though, I'll probably go 15 str instead of my pathetic 9 at endgame hahahaha.