[Akiyoshi]

I think i don't understand your question quite well but i think what you say it's true to some degree. Belkan Knights's basic physical attacks seem to pack quite the punch, at least Signum and Vita seem to hit hard enough to cause decent damage even without magical boosts, physical attacks have their limits, tough. No matter how hard they hit the are nowhere as powefull as high-tier spells who have monstruous and wide area of damage like Excellion Buster for example.

The main difference is that direct physicall attacks work better as anti-personel damage while magical spells have a much greater variety of options.