Ok that "honorary member of ranked players" comment gave me quite a laugh, thank you.Make no mistake tho, Im not trying to be a saviour or mouthpiece, Im only giving my input as a ranked player because I want to see the mode thrive - you thinking Im imagining this as "people complaining are filthy casuals" is projection by you alone.
So to be clear, I understand completely that you are annoyed on how little Trophy Crystals can be effectively spent on, I get that and I support improvements in that system. I think they are a great system fundament, but it needs either a desirable currency sink for those with excess crystals and/or needs better/more rewards and consumables tied to it. At this point Id even suggest an equivalent to current PVE tier crafted gear so you can use PVP as alternate progression. And return old Battlepass stuff as well, ppl want the Archfiend set to return after all.
Short, yes Trophy Crystals has problems and Im all for improving it.
However, either out of willful ignorance or simply being unable to see beyond your own scope of interest, you simply don't get or want to get why Commendation Crystals (Ranked currency) got introduced in the first place. The primary purpose of them is purely to incentivize Ranked play, regardless if people like that or not or how well it will perform in that.
I am massively at odds with suggestions like "make the ranked thing purchasable with Trophy Crystals" because that defeats the entire purpose of that ranked currency. I don't give two f***s that some casual pvper finally gets access to Augmented Hellhound weapons, I do give a lot more than two if it meant Ranked player retention and incentivization had to tank further because of it. Ranked has enough of a hard time as is which isn't fixable with "fun improvement" alone.
Keep ranked currency in ranked, fix Trophy Crystals being meh in other ways.