Hello @Naivety, welcome back to the forums.
As others stated before, DEX is in a better place now than STR in most physical dmg builds.
Inquisitors are very good not only as dps chars, but also as “supports”. Even if you can’t deal much damage to your own Breaking Wheel, others in your party surely will. The wheel also deals considerable damage even without using God Smash in it.
Malleus’ debuff makes enemies take an additional damage equal to they magic atk, which in most R8 cases, translate to ~1k additional damage per hit. This is very good as an offensive debuff for your party, and also yourself.
You said something in another topic about making a SPR build. I made a Cleric 3 > Pally 3 > Pardoner 1 > Inqui myself with nearly full SPR build and I was actually very satisfied with the results. It’s not a very good build for pvp but for pvm it makes most magic dmg mobs hit you for 1 dmg with barrier + increase magic defense (from pardoner) active. Discerning Evil combos quite nicely with Malleus and is esp effective against bosses.
Making a SPR build for chaplain’s capella isn’t a terrible idea, but reaching high defense with proper gear (and now with the new yellow gem for armors) is a lot easier. Stone Skin becomes less useful when you already have ~1.5k or more defense coming from aspersion and reasonable defense gear and mobs already hit you quite low in physical damage, making the damage negligible.
Leveling a SPR build however is a big pain. Your dps will only be reasonable when you reach inquisitor. I used a stat reset on my char so I didn’t really go through it, but I can tell it would be a real test of patience