Ask a Warrior Thread.

Practical purposes aside though, I do miss the special animations of FA.

They're still used in the Brandish animation, so they aren't all gone. Only the Spear and Blunt Weapon ones aren't used really, and possibly Pole Arm if Arans don't use the FA frames anywhere.

Edit: You know what I miss is the red swings from weapons when they reached a high enough mastery. They made it so that the swings only turn red when the weapon has 60% or more [additional] mastery, but that means that only classes with some form of advanced mastery in fourth job can get red attacks. I guess Paladins "can" have red attacks, but only when they're charged and using their basic swings against a box or something.