Using magic made the first few levels in Demon's souls much much easier,the Royalty class had a rare ring that refills you MP over time, it was kind of a cheap way to win some epic bosses fight like Tower knight,you could have cast spells then hide until the MP is full again instead of attacking him with your sword ( trust me you need to be really brave to do that) , however, the assistant spells are the most useful ones , you cast a spell on your sword that increase the damage, or casting a magical shield on yourself, it's really hard to win PvP fight without such spells.

Anyways, I acquired all the spells in Demon's souls and I wasn't a magician , it was all about how you build you character. I don't know if Dark souls would be the same or there would be some exclusive advanced spells for Sorcerers.

I'm sure there will be some epic spells, like Fire storm in Demon's souls, when I first saw it I was like "HOLY S*IT" :p

there is no Magic bar , it seems like a Sorcerer can cast spells endlessly :/

i played full magic, personally i loved it but it is a mixed bag.  early on it was a bit tough, magic regen is really slow and herbs were in short supply.  i mean, i got throough fine enough but i progressed quite slowly.   towards the end when i got the right gear i was a fucking beast.  buffs stack so wuth the the insantiy catalyst and the offhand i had (forget the name) and a full intelligence build --- well the final boss on 1-1 almost went down in one hit for me. xD  in pvp as long as i got the first hit (which is easy since i've got range) i never lost.

so in short, it was a great class and i do play to play full magic again.

So if you can pretty much build whatever class you want eventually, is it feasible to start off as a Thief and add in a bunch of spells? Sort of like an Arcane Trickster for those of you familiar with D&D.

thanks for adding the classes. i'm a magician on darksouls right now, and my targeting is bad lol.

i'll likel start with the Sorcerer, Pyromancer, and  Cleric.

whts the close rang weapon for the Hunter?

You must be one tough motherf#cker then

Probably will use the same routine as my platinum run on Demon's Souls.

Started as a Hunter, and dropped my points between Dex, End and Str. When I had enough Dex to use a Sticky Compound Long Bow +5 (30 Dex) and enough Str+End to equip a Purple Flame Shield +10, the Black Leather Set and the Dragon Bone Smasher (30 Str, 35 Stamina and one Ring of Great Strength).
Afterwards, I dropped 24 points in Faith and 24 on Intelligence (to have both three slots in miracles for God's Wrath and Regeneration and 3 slots on Magic for FireStorm or Warding). Afterwards, during my NG+ playthroughs, I started dumping all extra points on Vit and End and ended up switching to the Brushwood Set as I wasn't hindered by it's weight anymore.

I'll probably do a similar strategy for Dark Souls.

No it cant, you can see the number right above the magic cast icon. That number says how much time you can use that spell with your remaining MP, You can see that once the player used that magic shield spell, the number went from 3 to 2

A warrior.
Close combat or no combat. It easily was the most fun part of Demon's Souls, it will be in Dark Souls, too.

That Pyromancer is straight beast man I hope my wanderor can learn fire spells like that.