@Reav3: Yorick VU Feedback - Yorick needs his old taunt animation back

ˆBIG YIKESˆ·8/31/2016, 6:47:58 PM·12 votes·875 views

I've been continuously playing Yorick since shortly after his release in season 1, both because I like his unique minion summoner/bruiser play style and his ghoul/undertaker character concept.

Since I do not have a PBE account I will only give feedback on the new lore and visual update.

Overall the visual update is a mixed bag, it has good things and not so good ones.

But there is one change for the worse that stands out for me:

Yorick's new taunt animation is a quite bland "I clean my hands of you" clap. Considering that it replaces the iconic "I will bury you alive!" digging animation, it is a huge downgrade. Please give him back his old animation. Since so much changes about him, it would be good to have at least that hallmark of his old gravedigger character.

Other aspects of the VU:

  • The new joke and dance animations are great. Both are much better than the old ones.
  • The new cape is great too. I'm still on the fence about the new shovel.
  • The new ult Maiden and the new ghouls look great too. I don't mind that there aren't any different types anymore (4 horsemen).
  • I don't really like the beard. The clean shaven face gave Yorick a much more ghoulish appearance.
  • Yorick's new lore is the second most disappointing thing about his rework for me. Compared to his old lore, the new asian monk theme and "rebel necromancer" story line are generic and lackluster. His old lore had this unique ferryman (Charon), undertaker and undead ghoul theme mixed with a story line about accepting one's fate/fatalism, earning a name and losing/regaining memories (Lethe vs Mnemosyne).

1 Comments

Wind Whistler9/3/2016, 1:08:24 AM1 votes

Yeah, as much as I love Yorick, his joke animation does NOT line up with what he's saying at all.

He's talking about your dead relative, but meanwhile, he's attempting to reach around to put his lantern back into place.