Aside from the difference in particle and sound effects, I always found it weird that Pld had a copy and pasted animation for their oath change. This is going to sound REALLY nit-picky, but the thing that bugged me most about it is the sword. Swap to Sword Oath? The Pld takes his stance and his sword glows red hot for a second. Dps increases. Pld swaps to Shield Oath? Same thing happens, only dps takes a nose dive ... Just doesn't seem to make sense to my fantastical little brain.

From a more technical standpoint, you'd think they'd have wanted it to be more obvious for the sake of other party members healers. It's pretty obvious when a War or Drk is stance dancing, so the healer should be prepared for modulating Hp pool/damage intakes. Other than the particle effect having a different colour, Pld's stance dance looks exactly the same, so it's possible to miss the stance dance by animation alone. Again, kind of nit-picky, but it's just one of those things that made me wonder why SE did it. My running theory is that they were just being super lazy with the Pld job. They were lazy with pretty much every other thing they did with this job, so why not the animations as well?