What's the point of ranks?

[TheVedis]

You say you liked to participate in the story. Well what if instead of 300 hours of killing moles, sheep, and coblyns to do that, you just had 300 hours of engrossing quests and stories, which incidentally involved some killing, some exploration, etc?

You do realize all these games with "engrossing quests" still make you do nothing but kill X mobs, gather X items, go to X location and wiggle your toes....
they arent any different at all and people need to realize that


so instead of 200 hours of killing mobs, you are doing 200 hours of someone telling you to go kill those mobs