So whose ready to remove ranks?

[Synestra]

But gear being tied to rank is one of the main reasons why people still continue the grind

For some maybe but not for everyone, gear is just nice perk buuuut if it has CRIT/DET in it then i actually want it for more deeps. I mainly do it for fun/time killing after raids/between crafting etc.. and its also fun to mindgame against opponents and then own them hard, or outplaying those pesky SMN and makeing their "iwin" fail thus leading their miserable death or cowardly retreat. Pissing peoples off is most enjoyable thing you can do in pvp and that alone is reward itself.

PS: When you kill SMN in pvp nowdays dont forget to do some T-Bagging, it will make some of them infuriated and that feels good mon ^_^