We finally have some details on those fancy new ward skins thanks to Riot's most recent announcement. As we heard about before, some of these skins will cost you RP, while others will be available for IP. Regardless of how you buy them, they are still, unfortunately, temporary.
"We’re excited to announce ward skins, a new customization option that allows you to change the appearance of your Sight and Vision Wards on the Fields of Justice. In keeping with the season, these ward skins are inspired by the haunting guise of the Shadow Isles. Activating a ward skin will transform your wards into ghosts, spooky trees, spiders, creepy stone statues, or pumpkin-headed bats with their own unique visual effects, sounds, and animations.
Here’s how they work. When you purchase a specific ward skin from the Wards tab of the League of Legends Store, it gets added to your inventory for one week. You can activate a specific ward skin to change the appearance of your wards in game. You can keep up to a year’s worth (52 weeks) of ward skins in your inventory at a time, so don’t hesitate to stock up if you have a favorite. Ward skins function the same as a regular Sight or Vision ward.
Here are the first five ward skins available to unlock:
- Deadfall Ward – 200 IP
- Haunting Ward – 800 IP
- Tomb Angel Ward – 25 RP
- Widow Ward – 75 RP
- Bat-O-Lantern Ward – 165 RP
These particular ward skins will be releasing with the Shadow Isles patch and will be available until November 13, so buy a few extra weeks if you want to frighten friends and foes alike all year round."
Of course the biggest critique of this new content is about the duration and why we can't just have a permanent unlock, to which Hippalus replied:
"The goal here is not to have ghosts and bats popping up all over Summoner's Rift all year round. It is a Harrowing/Shadow Isles promotion to add a new element to the event and help us understand how players like and use ward skins."Furthermore, he expanded on that by adding in:
"If players like the concept of ward skins, the longer term plan would likely be to have permanent ward skins year round plus lower cost rentals for the holidays. This is an experiment with a new type of content and it doesn't make sense to offer permanent non-holiday ward skins until we see if players use and enjoy it."
