While I respect the different varieties of lances and bows, they are all wielded with the exact same animations and with the exact same weaponskills (I'm not a martial artist, but I'm guessing that a halberd and a long spear shouldn't be wielded the same way). I'm not talking about aesthetic differences as much as different weapons entirely, with their own weaponskills and such.

But that does bring me to the suggestion that perhaps different types of bows or lances could have different weaponskills. That would make things interesting as well.