I am definitely (and logically
) for this proposal!
Glad to see that my and Tienety's original ideas evolved into unique Gandal's skillset, which not only separates him from his Gondor's counterpart, but also will make Arnor much more playable for fans who think that Arnor is just boring copy of Gondor. Reworked Gandalf for Arnor provides so needed fresh air, especially the skills which are based on Hobbit movies.
Concerning staff - don't forget that our idea was based on Gandalf only with the staff and without sword, which he found later. And you want to create completely new sword because you found that some animations don't fit well ...
Then we should talk how to solve this problem and stay loyal to our original ideas, and not create something more complicated which we didn't want in the first place.
So where's the problem? We have Saruman's animation and wizard CaH animation which are sufficient ... so problem is in particular ability?