What's the point of ranks?

[viion]

You'll be eating your words when they simplify stat formulas. Just sayin'

Most likely, when they make stats good and I see big improvements to current gear, cant say for dodore because its to easy to make gear now but maybe harlequin, then maybe I will change my mind, that doesnt mean that currently ranks are useless.

And whos to say even when they make stats good that Harl be any good?

lets compare the body with Vintage Robe
Difference: +7 int, same mnd, -57mp -2def, +5 mdef, +2 mag resist, -12 mag craft. +1 resi

its not exactly MIND BLOWING is it lol. INT is useless because anythign endgame just sucks to dmg and nukes suck in general. I can knock off 2k nukes naked or geared on things i farm/fight often.

If when they fix stats that +7 int is not going to be as extreme as it should be, it wont make my 1k dmg become 1.2kdmg is it. And personally I'd rather keep the MP.

I hope you are referring to "physical level" it is true , they are pretty meaningless.
Rank is your level, saying a lv 15 can do the same of have experienced the same as a lv 50 is silly.

Its not silly, what do you do at the 2 different levels? Look at it like this

Rank 15 - Oh lets do some leves! Lets kill the leve mobs, Yay!
Rank 50 - Cant do leves, lets kill mobs for no gain!
Rank 45 - Oh lets do some leves! Lets kill the leve mobs, Yay!

Every rank is identical. And the point we've mention is even at rank 50 the only thing you can do better is NM's which we're now debating on weather they're useless or not. And even then you can do these at 35 lol.