Removing Ranks for newer gear.

[Dimitrii]

Just wait a few months and the new gear's rank will be unlocked for all.

They do this with PVE gear as well, whats the difference? Old gear is always unlocked when new stuff is out. Don't see the community complaining about how ilvl 210 will be faceroll easy to achieve this update in PVE.

[Nalien]

They do this with PVE gear as well, whats the difference?

Do they?

PvP Rank is effectively your PvP level. Case and point, the higher your PvP Rank, the more AP you have, the stronger your PvP actions are. The higher your PvP Rank, the stronger you become in PvP.

When have they ever gone "You know what? This awesome piece of Lv50 gear should be available to brand new players too!"?

Someone who is Rank 2 in PvP should not be wearing Rank 50 PvP gear, in the same way someone who is Lv2 should not be wearing High Allagan stuff... Was bad enough when some tank body gear dropped in Diadem, and I tried it on only to see it was Armor of the Behemoth King... I know random models was the whole point of Diadem, but come on! Why do we even need to remove the Rank requirement with that in mind? This shit has already lost its uniqueness thanks to Diadem. PvP gear in general is just a massive mess at this point, no idea what they're doing with it or why they felt the need to add more to it... I can only imagine they've done this just to cave in to demands for newbs to have the Lv60 sets, so they had to add new Lv60 sets for the Rank 50s, apparently ignoring the fact that those same newbs are now going to complain about these sets being gated behind Rank 50 (or are they adding new Ranks?). They're just making matters worse, this is an all or nothing scenario, either you're Rank 50 and get the sets, or you're not and you complain... At least when everything had a Rank requirement, there was some semblance of progression; You got this set at Rank 30, this set at Rank 40, and so on. Now they just add new sets for people to complain about being gated behind Rank 50, or worse add new Ranks for people to complain about being too much of a grind (when it really isn't).

When PvP gear actually did something, this was a valid concern, but PvP gear doesn't do anything anymore... It's vanity gear, and you're just cheapening its value by removing any effort in its acquisition. Nobody wins in this scenario... The short sighted idiots who complained about this might think they're getting something, but they're just going to move on to complaining about the new set soon enough... Whatever though, Diamond Rank gear is going to be a thing... Hopefully you don't screw that over...