Quote Originally Posted by ispano View Post
Because everyone and their brother did not like the "sliding" you did mid animation. So now they are mostly upper body animations, so the lower body runs normally when you move and use skills.
I can see the reasoning behind that, but they didn't seem to add a suitable replacement as much as they just decided to give up on it. And the sliding as bad as some people may have thought(erroneously, but that's a matter of opinion) was still better than what we have now, which as of this typing is still boring.