Fully agree on all points here. Some of the skill animations are great, but they shouldnt repeat the same animation for every Lancer or Gladiator skill (except Howling Vortex for Gladiators). Now magic in general could use some visual improvements, especially the attack spells.

Personally I think Yoshi-P and his team should look towards Playstation 1 to 2 era Final Fantasy games for spell animation inspiration. Final Fantasy XIII also had a similar problem...but that was supposed to be a really fast battle system, so I understand the concession there.