[Malorn]

Originally Posted by CutterJohn

That is my understanding of it as well, except I believe battle rank just unlocks the certs that you can then train. Having a BR20 won't mean anything if you've not trained any of the certs.

He also said that you get BR far, far faster than you can train the certs you unlock, so I doubt having all certs trained will even be an issue for a year or two.

Yeah I think it works somewhat like Eve Online where the certs will have ranks and ranking up gives you bonuses and/or is a prerequisite for certain equipment. The first rank is really fast, while subsequent ranks take exponentially longer time to train. That would also be consistent with what we have been told so far.