Oh man, totally on board with this Gadda. I would love to see much better animations than the ones we currently have, and I would rather see the spells have a slight chance of landing a DoT like Water - Drown, Fire - Burn etc. Not many CONs right now use those DOT spells cuz they rather equip Paralyze, Poison etc. I also like to be running while casting, but I think it should be at a much slower rate (the running) as well as not having the weapon out to have to cast something, know what I mean?

But really like the idea of having casting animation just like in your post, great idea =D