Magic would be so much more fun if the basic and charged attacked werent just balls thrown at people, I mean seriously thats what they all are…ice ball, fire ball, ball of energy (ok void gauntlet throws a ring at them but still…).
Example: Why not make the basic attack for ice guantlet some fast firing ice knife type projectile, fast with lots of hits, im sure some cool animations can be created to supplement this. As for charged attack, make it an ice lance that forms in your hand as you charge it and throw it at them for high dmg and maybe a snare.
This is just an exampled I pulled off the top of my head for the sake of argument, im sure if they actually tried AGS could make magic less boring by making basic/charged attacks for all magic weapons more interesting and fun to play with.