1. Ranking shouldn't be about gear. You're playing pvp cos u like pvp and that's what's fun and entertainng to you. I mean who plays something just to get gear lol? What r u gonna do, play smth that u don't enjoy, to get gear and look at it`?
2.You can rank easily (depends what games you get into and how much itme you have) without premades. You can be rank 7 with less than 5 k HKS... and from there on don't worry about it, it's not about gear or rank, i mean if you like PVP , you play it cos u want to and rank/gear is just a pyproduct.
3.Also nevermind the pve scrubs who think you have to roll dungeons or whatever to get gear first and then go to bgs...why? You can just get to 60 and roll bgs straight up, it will take some time to get gear, but once you reach R7 which is quite easy actually, you'll start making plenty of gear + all the gear from the 3 pvp reputations. The gear and rank will come along anyway. When someone starts talking about gear, it's a sign of them not being a skilled player usually. I guess they think that if some top rank 1 multiglad guy would come and make a fresh 60 and enter the BG here, he would not be skilled, cos he has no gear xD ...
Take it easy