9-7 PBE Update: New GP, Jax, Gragas Skins and more!

Posted on at 8:13 PM by Moobeat
The Public Beta Environment servers have been updated! For those who are unaware, the PBE is a testing grounds for Riot to try out new content before it is pushed to Live servers. This means everything below is tentative and could change or not even make it to live servers.
Included in this update are new skins for Gangplank, Gragas, and Jax, new splash arts for Miss Fortune, Morgana, and Tryndamere, small tweaks to the model minions, updated profile badges, an increase to the amount of possible mastery pages, anad a mysterious Tryndamere file that popped up in the sound banks, and more!

Three new skins made their way onto the PBE this patch, Special Forces Gangplank, Oktoberfest Gragas, and Nemesis Jax. Special Forces Gangplank is purchasable & playable on the PBE, while Oktoberfest Gragas and Nemesis Jax are not ready just yet.

Special Forces Gangplank
Where or where have I seen this splash before? Also, take a gander at all those shadow figures... is Riot teasing more "Special Forces" skins?
The skin includes a new recall animation and tons of new particles. His ultimate shoots missles. HOLY CRAP!
 

Oktoberfest Gragas 

Nemesis Jax



Speaking of skins, Justicar Syndra is now available for testing. Her splash art is still not ready but you can hop in and check out her model and new particles.

Justicar Syndra

The dreaded PLACEHOLDER IMAGE strikes again!
Here is a video preview of the skin for those who may not have scene it in the previous PBE post.

Minion's have been changed a bit. The old models were one big clump and it looks like the new ones have been split apart from their weapons.
While it's nothing major, it is strange Riot would fiddle with something this small unless they had something up their sleeves. Maybe prepping for minions to hold new weapons for this year's Harrowing event? Speculation HOOOOOOOOOOOO!



A few champions got a makeover splash art wise. Check out the updated and fancy looking new splash arts for Tryndamere, Morgana, and Miss Fortune!
Tryndamere
 Miss Fortune
 Morgana


The graphic "medals" for achieving certain goals, ranging from ELO tier to normal wins or minions slain, have been updated.

All Bronze bro!
Platinum, Silver, and Gold.
It's hard to find people who have played ranked on the PBE but I found a few and they only have a bronze medal with 1400 rating, which is concerning because a 1400 is silver rated on live servers. This is PROBABLY just be a weird PBE interaction/bug/whatever though. Icon is just a wee bit different from the other bronze icon as well.
A few players keep telling me everyone's ELO, even those below X amount of rating, is now visible but I believe that is only for you and viewing your personal elo. I have no ranked games played and no badges on my account but I've seen other profiles still listed as "unranked".
edit: DERP. It seems ranked ELO shows in Custom Games. On live servers, it is hidden if below 1250.
Thanks to redditor ivorcosta for the image!


Just as  RiotKiddington said a few days ago, the number of maximum available mastery pages has been increased from 10 to 20!
I didn't even think about checking this! Props to the fan email for pointing it out to me.

Finally, There was something interesting lurking in the audio banks . It seems we may have a new Tryndamere skin coming up soon.
Conqueror Tryndamere
( no model / splash ) 
Picture taken from sound banks.Also note that like PaxSona, Jayce_Sentinel is just a name for a skin on live.

I wouldn't get too excited though. We saw an early leak of the Dreadknight Tryndamere skin a while back, so unless that and this are one in the same, this could just be updated sound files with a weird name.