Crystalline Conflict's Ranking Rewards Suggestion

[Draxian]

Updooted for suggesting an actually decent idea to encourage the low ranks to continue queueing.

I say this as someone who isn't motivated to do ranked because of rewards (currently sitting on 7 unused comm crystals and not interested in the feast replicas...): without failure, I see friends in the lower ranks lose any motivation to continue queueing because their brackets will unavoidably stop popping about 2-3 weeks in and there's no reward for ending the season under diamond. I legitimately think the 7.4 change to ALMOST DOUBLE the rewards per tier and drop in an extra 5 for making it on the board is just about the most tonedeaf reward adjustment they could've added. At least in NA, most high rankers are already swimming in more comm crystals than they have any use for, and low rankers will see their games thin out at exactly the same pace as they always do.

I've heard other ideas suggested to help low rankers earn their rewards such as getting "shards" of a comm crystal per low rank that they can then trade for a full one as soon as they have enough for it, slowing down the farming of rewards but still giving the player enough motivation to keep climbing. The climbing experience is already unpleasant enough as it is with players depending on chasing that winstreak to make it out of their rank and often being held hostage to the collective skill of their random team; I consider it would be a positive change to acknowledge the effort lower rankers are putting in and give them a reason to continue trying. As it is, CC is already so "top heavy" and so dominated by its veterans that it threatens to smother its own seedbed of newer players by offering them no reason to stay.

PS: I've played you in NA and you're legit really hard to bring down. I hope your climb goes well and you get your rewards sooner than later!

I like this suggestion. Like how lower ranks in the feast would still earn you a couple of wolf collars but it could take several seasons to get enough for a weapon if you relied on it. You still got rewarded if you were forever stuck in gold. The suggestion from mrteacat is good too. I think the fundamental issue is quite widely agreed on: Offering literally nothing of value for any rank below diamond has not and will not sustain a healthy population for the mode.