If they are going to make the Jabs skill look like a true spear, why are other skills not altered?

Thevampirenight

Yeah I know people are upset by this, but what bothers me more is there is two other abilties that use a spear and then the skill line is called Aedric spear. One ability shatters said spear, and then another is the spear being used in an ultimate. So why isn't the animations changed to match the new spear look for jabs? Just saying consistency is kind of lacking here.

merpins

Because they didn't change how those skills worked. They made jabs 3 hits, down from 4, so it needed a new animation. Not that it needed less hits, could have just been nerfed. But animation is expensive. If the way the attack works doesn't fundamentally change, like number of attacks in this instance, there's no reason to change the animation. Take Flurry, they changed the animation because they changed the number of attacks as well. Though they just reused the light attack animation for that skill.