Please Remove Gear Restrictions (Rank)

[DividedSky]

I see your point but now I don't understand what you are asking for. Edit: however right now gear "progression" has a minimal impact on gameplay which is what it sounds like you agree with. It sounds like you just want the glamor / prestige of awesome looking gear for less effort? You consider the grind useless but you don't want gear progression? So you want free/easy glams? I this really what this post is about?

[Niroken]

I see your point but now I don't understand what you are asking for. It sounds like you just want the glamor / prestige of awesome looking gear for less effort?

You can still tie it to rank, just remove the advantages in Wolves Den, basically remove Morale. Another way is you could instead make it very expensive and allow you to purchase any piece at any rank, if you want the full amount of gear you still need the time investment for the full set. It gives more motivation to continue if you know your next piece is only x number of matches away and might even make a longer grind if you want sets for all your classes. Keep increasing rank every patch or two with new titles, glamour pieces, mounts, minions, etc, hell maybe even make icons beside your name for each rank or every 5 ranks to visibly show how progressed you are in experience while in PvP (I've seen that alone be motivation enough for some people to reach the top). As long as it doesn't effect gameplay I could care less, more rewards won't increase the population that much but you get your shiny stuff.