Opinions on Evan

What I think they should do is shorten the cast times, but keep the long animations and give them Buccaneer-esque delays. This way you can't cast consecutive Flame Wheels whose animations overlap each other, but you can switch to some other spell and keep blasting away.

Makes more sense to me, because you're preparing another spell while the dragon is handling the first one. In context it's nothing more than efficient use of time on the Evan's part, really.

Solves the obselete skills problem too.

I really like this idea, and agree that it makes sense. Why the hell would the human be waiting there for his dragon to attack? The human isn't even the one who's supposed to be attacking. The dragon really seems too much like a weapon cover. It's little things like this that could have seriously made it actually feel that the dragon is actually there. The dragon and human should be separate. I think it's a pretty cool idea to have the dragon attacking while you load up spells for it to use. Hell, maybe even make it so that you can separate from the dragon while it's casting skills (this may be tricky, they'd probably have to make it so that the player takes any damage the dragon takes as well) and have a key set to "call" your dragon back to you.

What I'm thinking about is, you've got the dragon attacking a mob. You load up the skills that you want it to use on the mob, and walk off to the other area of the map where an other mob is. By the time you get to the other mob, your dragon has already killed the last mob. You press the "call" key, and it flies over to you at full speed (or teleports, whatever). Then you can load up skills there as well and continue.

I think this not only adds difficulty to the class (it is supposed to be more "difficult" to use than adventurers, right?) as well as originality. It also stops the dragon from seeming like a puppet.