So whose ready to remove ranks?

[Synestra]

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Took me less than week to hit r50 and it was joke compared to 40-45, the problem i see here is that you havent really done any pvp before latest update, then ofc it will take alot time(i started pvp when SE added FL secure). PvP in here is pretty much same as PvE, if you dont keep up with the updates you will fall behind, but catch ups comes at slower pase than it comes to PvE(they just removed rank req from ilvl110 items, so this is the catch up for pvp). So all you can do atm is just to grind up to r50 before next update so you can keep up with progression, thus allowing you to wear latest pvp gear in future if you really want it that badly.

[Nektulos-Tuor]

Took me less than week to hit r50 and it was joke compared to 40-45, the problem i see here is that you havent really done any pvp before latest update, then ofc it will take alot time(i started pvp when SE added FL secure). PvP in here is pretty much same as PvE, if you dont keep up with the updates you will fall behind, but catch ups comes at slower pase than it comes to PvE(they just removed rank req from ilvl110 items, so this is the catch up for pvp). So all you can do atm is just to grind up to r50 before next update so you can keep up with progression, thus allowing you to wear latest pvp gear in future if you really want it that badly.

PvP "Gear" should be the only thing not tied to a rank. Skills+Everything else should be whats tied to rank.

[Synestra]

PvP "Gear" should be the only thing not tied to a rank.

Why not? i want to hear good reason not just "beacuse i want it".

[Kapiz]

PvP "Gear" should be the only thing not tied to a rank. Skills+Everything else should be whats tied to rank.

But gear being tied to rank is one of the main reasons why people still continue the grind
Its a good incentive and rewards players who slug through the hundreds of matches to reach that rank, why deprive them from this "achievement" just cause you want it?

[Mikedizzy]

Wow, there is some trolling going on here by this person or they don't get how the PvP is suppose to work in this game.
The gear is a "Status" symbol in PvP that you have played enough to "earn" that gear and those who do PvP "know" what that gear means and looks like and what you had to do to get it. You cannot just have it for free to glamour on your battle classes...you can glamour and get the iLv110 gear if you like that but you do need the rank to "deserve" to wear the better gear. You have to put in the time & effort and then you can have it.
I am putting in a ton of time on it now that I found the version I like (Seal Rock) and earning my gear and having a blast with this great community. I use to hate PvP but once I have really tried it now it is soooo AWESOME!!!! Go Adders on Behemoth!!!

[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 ^_^

[Eul]

This is why I'm mad that animal gear can be purchased by newbie people. Our effort to increase pvp rank become useless because all of this whining people who want "VANITY STUFF? MAKE FREE PLS!!!1!!11!" *cringe intensifies*

[Etiken]

If you care about appearence gear, you literally got a hand out in the last patch that let you use rank 40 and 45 gear without needing to hit any rank

theres your entitled handout

also ranks give you 5 titles and FL gives you 2 mounts, loads of titles and an entire armor set

QFT!
The OP and all like him need to wake up and realize how much of a lazy bunch of lalafel dung they are being. "Aww house is too expensive and takes to long to save for... everyone should get a free house" NOPE not when I and many others paid 30 mil +. "Aww pony takes too long to farm it should be 100% drop rate" NOPE not when I and many others put in 30+hours spamming those runs.
I could go on and on with exact examples that show how stupid this thread is. At least we got plenty of people here with their head screwed on straight.

[Nektulos-Tuor]

QFT!
The OP and all like him need to wake up and realize how much of a lazy bunch of lalafel dung they are being. "Aww house is too expensive and takes to long to save for... everyone should get a free house" NOPE not when I and many others paid 30 mil +. "Aww pony takes too long to farm it should be 100% drop rate" NOPE not when I and many others put in 30+hours spamming those runs.
I could go on and on with exact examples that show how stupid this thread is. At least we got plenty of people here with their head screwed on straight.

Pony can be gotten in 15-30 minutes if your lucky. People just buy gil usually if they want that much money. Such things encourage RMT.

This is why I'm mad that animal gear can be purchased by newbie people. Our effort to increase pvp rank become useless because all of this whining people who want "VANITY STUFF? MAKE FREE PLS!!!1!!11!" *cringe intensifies*

And the next set of gear will be rankless as well when the new set comes out. It also still costs tokens, what its worth to its ilvl.

Getting 300000 tokens just to use stuff that costs 12k-8k tokens is lulzy though. It proves how bad the system actually is.

[Leozhontai]

Do not remove ranks pvp will become boring I love the idea of ranks I done work to hard to rank up for anyone to remove ranks in pvp