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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.

But by charging, we get the carge afterimage, and not the red one from mastery.

Aww. I did like the spinning effect of 2H Sword users.

Last question: Is Ground Smash really useless? I read somewhere that because of its range (i.e. you don't have to walk up to monsters to hit them like PS/SB) they're better in that way than PS/SB.

Not useless per se, but you're going to substitute it pretty quickly once you reach 3rd job. Rangewise, yes it is more convinient than any of your attacks so far, since it is pretty much a ranged skill; on the other hand, for SB to "grab" far away mobs, the first one you hit MUST be within range of the skill (which is pretty much close-quarter range). PS has a small range and is a 1v1 skill, so you really can't compare.

While leveling, I found GS really awesome, as far as leaving Booster at a low level (with a timer similar to PG); but I eventually ended up dumping only 11 SP remaining once I got the SP reset, since CB pretty much eclipses any advantage GS had.