@Ruffneck_303_TTV I admire your drive, I really do. And I hope you get wherever it is that you want to go. But I want to say a couple of things about rank chasing just in case you might be one of the many people who would be a lot less frustrated with the game, and maybe with life in general, if you have a better understanding of exactly what it is you're trying to do.
The biggest misconception that players (in their legions) seem to have is that they can attain master/predator by just working harder, grinding harder, finding the right squadmates, etc. Life, after all, tries to teach us that we can accomplish anything if we put our back into it. But if you look at the statistical breakdown showing the percentage of players that can reach those ranks, then you realize that not just anyone can get there. In fact, very few people can get there. There are some goals that are unrealistic and some things that cannot be accomplished no matter the effort you expend. Some people will say that's a quitter's attitude, but we can't all be Tom Brady or President of the USA, or [insert some other statistically unreachable goal here].
More importantly, what you really need to ask yourself is whether or not your rank grind is making the game more fun or less fun. I'm not trying to imply anything - it's a question only you can answer. I'm just saying that if you wake up one morning and find that you don't even want to play the game because it feels like you're beating your head against a wall... that's when you've let your ego make you lose sight of the simple fact that the entertainment value of a game is not tied solely to how good you can be at it. Something to think about.
Oh, and just in case you didn't know, Diamond alone means that you're a better player than (roughly) 93% of the player base. So that's really nothing to be embarrassed about.
