Talk:V1.0.0.121/@comment-3491952-20110708135444/@comment-3213322-20110708191203

The W mana cost was reduced by 10. As for E, I can see that they might not want to lower it too much considering how much Riot is cracking down on sustained healing right now. Let's say if you use the W+E skills each every 10 seconds that affords you an extra ability combo every minute for the same mana cost. They also did slightly increase his base mana gain per level.

Now, I'm not expecting to retire my mana regen runes, but it should be a noticeable difference come early-mid game. Whether it's enough or not shall remain to be seen. If I were looking at the mana cost buff alone, I would not venture to say I thought this patch was enough for Yorick, yes. But base stats + decreased mana cost + damage reduction + Movement speed and attack speed + all the other random details they changed is reason enough for celebration in my book.

They keystone here for me, I think, will be how good the ultimate turns out to be now that the ghoul is not actively destroying itself, since that is kind of the central uniqueness to Yorick's existence.