I tend to stick with my assasin build fivefold flurry and lycean sight (especially great with blast arrows) and everything is dead in a couple of seconds with my backup shearing wind for when they get close. I dont even need to bother having any pawns aside form my main pawn (who mostly just runs into a nearby cliff face over and over, but i have him, as fighter and warrior class)

I like STR builds, they give you damage in melee where you need damage most (if you're playing a melee class) without having to carry around the various elemental weapons and upgrade them. If you ever decide to play a magick user, you can just find yourself a tank and/or a Strider to harry foes while you do your big windup attacks. Since spellcasters are backline combatants, the extra oomph of MAG is less of a big deal than when you go for Assassin or Warrior and your so-so defenses mean you need to make every hit count, ideally with higher STR.

I suppose MAG gets better results against specific foes, but I just grab Pawns with those enchantments for that and use STR Augments to make the most of a STR build. Neat setup, I dig the Stamina pool, throw out those skills for days.

ur welcome... but to add something more to this conversation: the mage and the sorcerer are the only two vocations that dont benefit from physical stats too much (except defense). every other vocation can use magick weapons so they can pull from both strength and magick to determine their total damage.
considering the fact that in no matter what vocation u level u always get statspoints in both (strength and magick) a pure strength build would waste that points! and their are enemies that have a high defense or are immune to physical attacks. doin both physical and magick dmg allways wins the upper hand in my book! the same is true for pure magick users. there is a spell that does deal physical damage. a must have for every caster!!!

Yes I'm well aware of magick having an upper hand but just like any other rpg, there are builds for specific playstyle and this one was done for physical. Besides if you go for a balanced strength/magick build, you end up being meh with some vocations. I would rather be good at being physical and hire mage/sorcerer pawns for the magick.

As for the magick build, I'm saving it up for another run. Then there are speedruns for fun. You could consider this as a basic physical build. It's simple and straightforward.

Thanks for the input btw! :)

magick weapons are the best to use overall! so if u only level strength u will end up with a very unflexible build, that is weak against magick ontop. not so sure if thats a good idea´. made such a build once on console... it was not as good as i was hopin it would be. now i know better. u should go for a more balanced build i would suggest