I know: "Oh, but what about Ranked?" Well, guess what: There's an easy way to solve this.

People already are making a fuss about exclusive rewards for PvP, but having an alternative to essentially dead queues in some DCs should be a route that even casual players can take.

Considering you would need the normal base weapon, you're running essentially for 10,000 Trophy Crystals.

As for Augmenting it, make it cost 50,000 Trophy Crystals. You could simply make something other than Comm. Crystals - Trophy Clusters. It'd cost quite a lot of Trophy Crystals, and it'd provide a SINK we desperately need considering there's naught of value except very few items that are tradable with Trophy Crystals.

Thoughts?