You can't just say that you'll be getting 150 gold every 3 minutes. There are plenty of times where you'll be replacing a ward you just placed like:

-Warding a different part of the enemy jungle.

-While pushing towards the enemy's lane or the enemy is pushing towards your lane, you ward the appropriate brush while keeping one in river.

-Place a double ward with an ally by mistake. Now you can just replace a few wards.

-Refresh a ward in a hotspot area a minute before it expires in preparation for dragon or baron.

sight stone would be more viable if you could place more than two wards at a time on the map. 2 charges in my opinion is not enough for me to drop 700 gold. They should atleast make it so I can use the all charges at once

Sightstones are a step into the evolution of this game in Season 3.

Sight stones are amazing.
As a support I generally rush sight stone after my gp10 items because of the amazing ward coverage i can have.

Over a game I'll easily place 15+ wards, so the gold is easily made back up. Plus a ward's never really a waste with a sightstone, so I can freely ward key areas of either jungle fluidly as is demanded.

Can`t rush sight stone anymore.. have to get an income item... What is the new way to rush for supports? suggestion? ideas?

Yes NONE of you have done the math really... Do the math... the new sightstone is just plane bad... I even just did a game without it... HAD WAY MORE stuff than the other support that had even more kills ... that's should NEVER happen.

I had the spots covered and plus some (4 wards out there) compare to their limited 2 or 3.Just say... you all that say otherwise never show any proof... yet you think are you right xD makes me laugh at this point.


-Warding a different part of the enemy jungle.

^ Your jungler or you can for cheaper

-While pushing towards the enemy's lane or the enemy is pushing towards your lane, you ward the appropriate brush while keeping one in river.

^ You can for cheaper

-Place a double ward with an ally by mistake. Now you can just replace a few wards.

^ you should be punshed for it tho...

-Refresh a ward in a hotspot area a minute before it expires in preparation for dragon or baron.

^ A WHOLE MINUTE :O


Either way.. you'll be -behinde by about 400 gold right off if you get one... and then the first 12 wards cost you WAY more than getting a ward will be... 12 wards !!! O.o what? 12 x 3 = 36 mins of the game xD too funny. For the same 12 wards I can still have money left over to buy another item with... Even if you warp back as soon as you can... you will still have a HUGE opening to be ganged because you wont have the wards to do so.

cost of new sightstone 950/75(cot of ward) 13 wards for the blue sightstone. 2 wards at a time with a max charge of 4 wards.. it takes 7 trips to make up the cost.. or about 21 minutes.. just for the blue sightstone. oh you rush ruby... the cost if 1550/ 75(cost of ward) 21 wards to make up cost..3 wards at a time with a max of 5 chrages it takes 7 trips to make up the cost....over 30ish minutes or a lot more time since.. You can`t rush a ruby sightstone. comparison to philo stone cost is 700 gold. 5 gold per 10 seconds.(30 gold a minute) about 24 minutes to make up cost. They are even now... prefence on sight and raw health or sustain and income.

your scenario happens once in 1000 games

more realistic, by late game, support who went sightstone is at least 1000 gold ahead from having to purchase fewer wards.

say you place your first 2 wards at 2:30 by 14:30 you've gotten your money back in wards and a free 180 health on top.