Commendation Crystals for Trophy Crystals

[4clubbedace]

You pretty much answered it yourself.

But to go into your post, you are absolutely right that we generate essentially too many Trophy Crystals with nothing fun or decent to sink them into other than Wolfmark conversion.

Also as someone who played since Feast era, I think they missed the mark with Commendation Crystals - Wolf Collars used to be available even to Bronze players, Commendation Crystals being Diamond+ only does absolutely nothing for the average player's drive to engage with Ranked (most are Silver-Gold on average).

They wont drop Commendation Crystals to be purchasable for Trophy Crystals, but they both have issues.

and what am i to do when i queue for ranked and no pop in nearly 30 min? kick myself for not climbing quick enough?

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

and what am i to do when i queue for ranked and no pop in nearly 30 min? kick myself for not climbing quick enough?

You are free to feel frustrated, but removing an item that was placed in Ranked with the intention to incentivize ranked and moving it into "everyone can obtain it without having to play ranked" defeats the point why it was introduced as such. It would turn into another gaudy gem people might farm and still have way too many Trophy Crystals for after while having essentially nothing in ranked other than a paltry title and cabon copy tier rewards of no meaning.

On one hand, yes kick yourself for not climbing early and more importantly before mogtome release (I'm joking). On another, no actually go complain about there not being enough reason to play ranked let alone climb with the current reward structure.

Terrible reward/incentive structure = players don't interact with the mode (whereas Casual is frequently available) unless they aren't valueing their free time as much and play for air and cardboard.

-looks at eastern DCs-

But yeah I don't feel like reiterating for the hundreth time why the tier rewards are pure doodoo and the payoff for playing ranked let alone investing time to improve in it is paltry. Said my piece in plenty of threads in the PvP section.