I'm just retarded apparently and thought all I needed to do was press up on the dpad for it to cast

. Can tell I have used a lot of magic in these games <_<.
Well I hope I don't break the quest line then. Trying hard to not murder hobo things needlessly.
As someone who has done blind DS1/DS3/BB/Sekiro this game is far and away the least punishing for death/exploration and has the ability to become very safe very quickly to tune that difficulty way down. I'd recommend this game to even terrible gamers while the others on my list I'd not recommend to anyone who values their gaming time good player or not. =O