Why must item rarity be a progress limiter?

I can understand item level, but item rarity is NOT fitting in a shooting game...
I made it to 1000+ inf with a bunch of rare items (I consider lucky to have a "bunch", but from what my friend told me, he almost never gotten any thing better than uncommon...) and one too few epic items, but now with almost all of my match up, I'm always under-powered... and can hardly contribute to the team... no mater how hard I try...
The current state of the game is SCREAMING pay to win... or have ridiculous lucks... or keep just being a f2p and take every death with a pinch of salt and pray to RNGsus that your next match is going to be somewhat balance.

 

Spend 750K gold on every item in the game to get a T1 rare so that any combine you do in the future will do nothing but help you evolve.

 

I'm still playing f2p (aside from $10 at start of game) and with t4 rares you can still compete and outdamage many paying players. The farther you get the less devastating legendarys are too, in fact they become average at nightmare leagues as epic t4/5 is better. (T4 is only better because of 4th perk slot).

 

This game won't give me any ex cannons, bought a rare ex cannon months ago and never got a duplicate since lol

 

Like I stated, My ship is underpowered while all of the other play I got match up with, Have crazy powerful weapons, and I can't upgrade any of my Rares item to t4 because first of all, I don't have the required crew skill and second - also the point of this rant, is the item's rarity! I still only have t2 rare cannon for crying out loud... I'm surprised that I could even get to that high infamy only to face enemy with crazy equipment...

 

Game tactic and position in game more important than rare/epic lvl of weapon...
But yeah >>> if u pay u fill more comfortable = )))

 

even if I play tactically, my equipment is way to under-powered with the kind of match up I've been experiencing, so the other team just steam roll us

 

this is my status as of last week, notthing much changed to my loadout, accept I ditch the napalm and now I'm at 1000+ inf

 

Without turbo, ur kinda just a glorified defender (easy mortars and torpedo target). U need higher level equipment to rise and mk5. I only see mk5/6 shooter throughout 1200-1800 except when people use their lower mk ships.

 

I realize that the napalm made me quite passive, so that's one of the reason why I ditch it and pick up a FireBomb (with a pinch of salt 'casue I have to bought the rare one...) instead, The Grenade I had it even before the recent buff and I see it as a "f***-u-high-waves-ya cant-block-me" plus, it's satisfying to land direct hits :^] also is it also a zoner type weapon?

 

so true i spent so long trying to get a legendary then i realise that the damage is not that much higher than weapons at tier 4 rare.

 

Now that I think about it, this is the first game I've seen with a rarity system for weapons. I hate it cuz rng is cruel ;-;

 

I know, that's why I said 'T4 rares are about as strong as legendaries' Because when you compare the two(T4 rare and T1 legendary), the legendaries don't seem as powerful anymore.