I cant be the only gamer/fan literally begging blizzard for this. Why in the feel cant you guys just make an update that adds animations where the spell casting classes wield their weapons for spell casting? You went to the trouble for hunters to use a spear as a weapon for goodness sakes man, update some animations for spell casters to have animations to wield their staves and wands pleeeeeease Blizzard it cant be that difficult to do that! Make it cool and random, in some games spell casters use general spells with their hands in cool somatic gestures but really powerful spells? They weidl their staff and stuff, they do that in Bless Unleaashed for god sakes and that game has died and come back several times, BLIZZARD wHAT IS the deal guys!?You would bring back so much more fans and they would celebrate this if you did that! It would be a huge money maker! Am I making a fool out of myself? Am I complaining like a pathetic man child? Probably but for real just fricking update and add some animations for this you already upgraded your graphics model since Draenor come on dude!~!
I’ve also never understood why they seem so reluctant to add animations, but there’s probably a lot about the inner workings of the game I don’t know. Maybe someone else could explain it to us. And yes I know animations cost money and that’s why, but lots of things cost money to develop.
In fact since inscription is a thing make a glyph for it so we can equip this as an extra feature thats optional so players can use it if they want to?
Casting with a staff would be a cool option. Casting with a wand though is how nerds do it.
The disc priest artifact weapon from legion constantly glitched, it would let you at least hold the staff with one hand after using the lights wrath ability. You could keep casting other spells while still holding the staff. It was awesome.
A few other ones did that. Arcane Mage staff and Elemental Shaman claws also stayed out after casting their main spells.
So it’s clear to me they could at LEAST let us do that. But I feel like Blizzard devs are tired of adding more customizations. I don’t recall anything being said about adding more lately.
I’d rather have the ability to hide my staff\wand\whatever so my wizard just wizards on their own without the prop.
I want my staff to float in front of me and have the spells eminate from it. Using it as a focus for my arcane might and having it shoot out like laser beams.
Or just make like a kitty making muffins on the air like the current arangement for channeling my arcane might. You know, whatever.
would give this four hearts if i could. i hate mogging staves for this exact reason. your caster basically gets stuck with an elaborate antenna. it’s not cute and it’s not practical; casters should be able to use their weapons like all the other classes!
Wands seem to be associated with Harry Potter and stage magicians. I can’t think of a “cool” way to wield a wand.
I rather use a staff but my profession can only make wands - and can’t make the off-hand.
funnily, on the subject of harry potter, i remember an interview with robert pattinson where he said he had no idea how to hold his wand during the filming of goblet of fire so just defaulted to holding it like a gun 
One of the many reasons I loved Rift. Those animations for casting with weapons were fantastic.