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[Glasscannon865]

I remember the warden used to do some cool looking swings when you were fighting the crappy little soldiers, if you did light, light, heavy you would do this cool twirl of the sword. Now its just chop, chop. hard chop, its so boring WHYYYY would you change that??

[UbiInsulin]

From an AMA with the devs:

[Stefan] These were removed because Pikemen take multiple hits and the animations generally would slow down most Heroes in the lane (Shaman or Highlander for example). Unifying locked and out of lock attack timings was an important facet of this decision as well.

[EvoX.]

...when you were fighting the crappy little soldiers

Hey... they're doing their best.