I will warn you, sorcereries are nice at first, but have a hard time later. Magic generally is the easy route in Dark Souls games as it is far easier than actually having combat. But in Elden Ring the only viable spell is Glintstone Pebble, the same one you get at the start as other spells cost more mana and do less damage.

I would also suggest to always go a melee character your first play through so you can experience the game like it was meant to be played, without the training wheels.

I started a Let's Play for Elden Ring, it's a new character (dex) from my main (str based) that I am streaming exclusively for Hive on YouTube.