Never bothered to look into the Ranked Battles info and I have just realized that you have to put in a month's work for a single piece of equipment- yeah, fuck that stupid shit, no thanks.
I'm not going near it. Giant credit sink. I am hoping that it'll take enough tier 10s out of random battles to fix MM and making grinding tier 8s bearable again, though. First test tonight (Ranked only started last night on SEA).
I would play this mode even if that 1 month of ranked would bring 3 pieces of upgraded equipments, choosen freely. In that case I would equip 113, than STB, than e50m/patton and that's it. But this shit...
There's literally no good reasons to play ranked battles. No good incentives and just a bunch of negatives to deal with that you already have in randoms but they are magnified in ranked.