Ranking is so easy and quick, I have to turn down many many people who ask just because I have skills/spells to work on. I have hero'd a necro, 2 warriors, and an invoker in the past year and they were all super super easy.

I assume you're one of those people who log on, ask everyone that they can group with to group and then log off if that doesn't work. Which is a terrible way to go about it. If no one wants to group right away, then go do something else. Pk, solo rank, explore, RP, prep gathering, eq gathering, coin gathering, etc. Eventually you will find a group.

I find ranking so easy, it's the least concern of all my concerns when rolling a character. Hell, that Melissa character got hero and Wight in like a week as a necro, and you're saying you can't rank? Something seems off here...