An Alternative to Gemstones for Exclusive skins.

CC Mustang··1 votes·2,412 views

Recently it was announced that another new hextech exclusive skin that would require ten gemstones to unlock would be released. I do play every role and about half of the champions in league, however i have found a special place in my heart for Vayne and would consider her my main see these 2 images for proof http://imgur.com/YrPcvGr http://imgur.com/Rv7Nybd

Being a Vayne main and being fairly good at her, (Im no Hi i'm Gosu) I own all her skins and take pride in "having a complete collection of all of her in game materials" and I would like to own Soulstealer Vayne when it is released, however, I know for a fact that to get it i will need to A Spend 300 to 500$ on hextech crafting, or B get REALLY lucky and pull her as a skin shard. My personal idea is that if somebody is super designated to a champion and owns all their skins, including legacies, and a mastery level 7 on that champion (and/or maybe something like 250,000 mastery points) then they should get the hextech exclusive skin for free (or have the ability to buy with IP/RP). That would mean people like Me, or Annie bot, Shaclone, or others like Malicious Metal who spend a lot of their time on one champion would not be denied the 1 and very exclusive skin they didnt own if they wouldnt or couldent spend 300 to 500$ trying to get 10 gem stones. (I know Shaco and Mordekaiser dont have an exclusive skin but if they did it would be people like Shaclone and Malicious who would be stuck in this situation)

Having this system in place COULD also be beneficial to riot as it encourages players to A: Still buy skins and thus makes them money, B: Play competitively and play a lot (as they would need to be mastery level 7 or have a large quantity of mastery points), and C: would improve player satisfaction by giving people who are probably most deserving of the skin the ability to easily obtain it (you gotta admit it was sad seeing Annie bot buy set after set of Hextech chests and still not get Hextech Annie until he had spent over 300$).

As a note: Heartseeker is 975, Arclight was 975, SKT Vayne was 750 (and legacy) DragonSlayer was 975, Vindicator was 520 (and Legacy i think i cannot remember), and finally Aristrocat vayne was another 520. Including the Dragonslayer vayne chroma at 590 This is a grad total of 5305 RP or a little over 35 US Dollars. Soulstealer vayne would cost around 300 to 500$ to get if i wanted to collect 10 gemstones.

4 Comments

Myrkrvaldyr1 votes

OMG, your 3 main champs, you use nothing but pure cancer, I bet the other champ you have with mastery 6 is Satan himself (and probably Fizz, too), admit it!! ò-ó

CC Mustang1 votes

:P I play about half of the champions in the game. Here is a photo my top 8 champs. I got a few other Teir 5s like on graves and thresh. However for your info I have only played Satan once and am not even teir 1 with riven even though i own her. http://imgur.com/fAaE36c
Other than my champs tho. What do you think of my idea?

Ravenhale1 votes

It just happens. I would love to have Victorious Morgana (one of my Level 6 champions). Unfortunately, I did not start playing the game until Season Five. I don't believe there is any chance at all of getting this skin, and that's okay.

I would be tickled to have Hextech Annie (another of my Level 6 champions). I technically have a chance to get her, but I'm not going to buy another 9 rounds of chests for a decent chance at 9 more gems. I simply don't have enough interest in champions I don't own to justify all the skin and champion shards I would disenchant into essence that would never get used (have almost 2K in orange essence already from skin shards I didn't want). Until the RNG gets better at matching what I would want, I see little wisdom investing in it.

I suspect other people may have lost interest in the Hextech Crafting, which might be why they released another Hextech Exclusive skin. It's disappointing, because I also have Vayne (Heartseeker/Vindicator/Arclight) and certainly wouldn't mind adding Soulstealer to my collection. Oh well. At least I know Aristocrat will be going up for sale next month (or in August) to be added to my collection of Marksmen skins that I only play in RGM. Perhaps the next Hexakill weekend I'll get a Lvl 5 Marksmen out of it.

CC Mustang1 votes

I know my chances are slim but im wondering if riot would consider this system i am suggesting because it would encourage players to play the game more to level up champs, buy other skins, and play more competitively as they want the game to be (hence things Dynamic queue). To me it seems like a mostly win win idea. To encourage more playing and buying of skins, however i dont run a company and i dont have any of the statistics they have. It could just be that it would be too difficult to implement or that they will make more money if they just have players buy the chests. Anyways i thought it was worth a shot.

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