So whose ready to remove ranks?

[Pibz]

While ranks should not go away,it's the only progression we have besides achievements, and it's not a bad system, the grind is just way too large as it stands right now.

If you have a perfectly distributed winrate it would take 584 matches (*) just to get to 46 , which is the rank you can start using the current left-side gear.
That's just insane and completely unreasonable for new players and this is not the way we can get the pvp community to grow.
The grind needs to be heavily compressed for at least the rank 1 through 35 period so that it doesn't take more than 150-200 matches to get to rank 46 or so. It would be specially atrocious if they made the gear relevant again and people had to go through this grind to get it..
I'm my opinion it should go even further if they made the gear relevant again, the gear rank requirement should be more spread out through all the ranks we have say something like accessories at 25, boots and belt at 30 and so on. There's no point in having people go through that insane grind just to get the first current piece, it's specially ironic how the grind from 45-50 isn't even that harsh compared to 1-45. This way people would get some extra motivation as they go and possibly play more.

* - yes log and roulette reduces this somewhat depending on how much you play but the log is basically useless until the upper ranks and 1 free win per day doesn't make the grind reasonable either