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Originally Posted by Drauk

There is some crazy guy on my server who has 2 GMs characters (including the very first GM on the server) and is now ranking horde char to HW.
And its certainly easier next time for him. First of all, he pretty much created a PvP guild that worked to getting GMs to their members. They controlled all top 10 standings, because they were better than anybody. As far as i know his second char was getting standing 1 from the start, and his way to GM was much shorter that with first char.

It's a ladder system so it all depends on competition. However, there is a *minimal* amount of time it will take him to reach R14. My entire point is that they are two different systems. PvP requires constant time investment by each individual, while PvE's time investment is tied completely to the rate at which a guild raids.
Some guilds want to raid 7 days a week, another wants to raid 4 days. Both guilds can still acheive the best rewards the PvE system has to offer.

PvP does NOT allow this flexibility with time. Either you can invest the time required to rank up, or you either de-rank or simply stop ranking up.

I wish I had the answer to make it more manageable, but as long as Blizzard insists on tieing PvP Rank to strictly time invested, it will never change.