User blog comment:Conan's Armpit/Magic gameplay ideas for Dragons Dogma 2/@comment-162.72.238.170-20130719003957/@comment-11766885-20130727054628

As mentioned in the blog, if u miscast a fireball / lightning bolt / ice blast shoots out your ass. You could intententionally miscast suffering damage but hitting the enemy that got to close, maybe add an augment to suffer less/no damage from a miscast.

As far as straying away from Magic casting classes because it's too fiddly, u can cater to casual players by having an option in menu's or during start of game to turn off memory casting.