well… Read the last sentence if you don’t wanna read stuff.
1 spr point increases blessing damage by 0.84 at lv 15. 1 str point increases your physical attack by 1. Pro for STR
Blessing works for party whereas str works only for you (unless you got linker 3 in a party). Pro for SPR
Blessing works on every additional line of damage you got. Pro for SPR
Str increases by 10% every time you class advance. Pro for STR
If a monster has higher physical defense than your physical attack, then you’ll only do 1 damage on your main hit (but your extra lines of damage won’t do 1, e.g from sacrament, cafrisun, enchant fire…). I’ve only read this on forums so im not 100% sure… Pro for STR since SPR doesn’t increase your physical attack.
BUT BUT BUT, you’re going pardoner and I’m going to assume you won’t level that character anymore once you reach pardoner 2. Go for SPR build so you don’t end up with some incredibly slow mission run. SPR is also better when you’re soloing assuming you got sacrament and cafrisun.