Maybe bring back old rewards but new recolors? idk I honestly just don't want ranked to die 3 weeks after a season started like old Feast.
The idea of a ranked currency like Rein said before was already implemented back in Feast days, the wolf collars, but the lack of rewards for those just didn't help at all since there were only weapons and for the guys on top 10 they collected all of them like it was nothing. Maybe make the hellhound weapons glow or something? "Augmented hellhound guillotine" sounds cool right?

Like most here I also hate FOMO rewards but unfortunately, for a competitive game mode, it does really need to have something at stake for people to actually queue up. I also enjoy the thrill of going against other ppl as determined to win as I am like any other pvp player, but saying that a shiny reward at the end didn't grab some of that "passion" for the mode would be a lie.

Honestly, just bring back the old system, add ranking decay and make some grindable trophy for tier rewards, not expecting to have wintraders or boosting would be naive, but that would demand SE to actually police the pvp scenario and I doubt they would do that.

You either bring back old rewards and risk pissing off veteran players and make it just a boring grindfest or just keep it fomo forever and ward off the more casual crowd thinking there's only boosting or win trading every season for all ranks and the queues die in 2 weeks max while community tournaments keeps the community on life support.

There's no way to win here as far as I can see.