When we cast a spell, our equipped weapon/focus disappear for a moment, is there a way to prevent this? its extremely annoying.
No, it’s been this way for awhile now. I’ve forgotten why, and it does make me sad.
You would need to edit the animation .aif files to remove the hide/show hand calls and create overwriting animation assets.
But there was a reason you all had changed that, wasn’t there?
Thank you for the response, i’ll look into it.
This is the cheapest workaround i could come up with, no more flickering weapon/offhand.
Thats awesome 
btw is that an offhand illusion on your weapon, or an actual offhand in your main hand? in any case, it looks pretty cool!
It is a modded illusion, an enslaved wraith skin changed to a sword, i wanted that magic in my hands feeling when i cast, thats why i’ve made that animation change too.
Yea that hidden item animation while casting annoys me a bit as well.
I haven’t dabbled with modding yet but both of these things are already on the todo list.
I guess the animation change will work in multiplayer and with old chars, but what about the illusion? Is that a database edit that requires everyone to have the same mod and start over?
All the changes are seen only by ppl who have the modifications, its just a database edit, but i’ve baked the changes directly into my client, so i can play my characters in the main game.
Thanks for the answers, I was hoping that small changes like these don’t require creating a mod or baking it into the game files.
As I’m playing online a lot, I’d have to convince too many people to mod their game as well. But I guess I could buy another game copy from GOG and mod that version instead.
Here is the link to the animation fix, if you want, works for male/female 1hander casting only.
https://mega.nz/#!1dVUjIgI!sqXiB90pCN5mf5xGsgIv7CK4XftueAkoV2bpBVdhld8
nice, thanks for sharing