Hmm. Website does not move at dev speed.
The information there is a -little- dated.
With CHARACTER RANK, I want to create an experience of “going deep” with a character, where you can level up that character over several hours, earn character-specific rewards, and find ways to exhibit your love and mastery of a character to other players. There are actually two other components of this other than CHARACTER RANK, but we haven’t mentioned those yet.
As to the time it takes…still working through that. I want to be sure you’re rewarded for play very frequently. I’m a rewards/loot driven kind of guy, and I like to know there’s always something interesting to earn just around the corner. BUT, we’ve also seen that too much can be overwhelming. I’m counting on our Beta to help us sort out what pacing feels right. It will probably be in the 10-20 hour range, per character.
COMMAND RANK (sometimes referred to as meta-level, account level, account rank) is your global progression level. Currently, there are 100 COMMAND ranks. COMMAND RANK is there to give you a better picture of your overall progress, to a point. There are some parts of the game that are unlocked by earning command ranks.