Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26940073-20160329232802/@comment-123.2.212.1-20160330005110

Friends are not infallible with their "advice". I'm sure a certain minhfongboy would be happy to tell you that. If your friend has never been a ranker, that should be the first sign of bullshit. Just a simple trip to this page and you can see that it is the boss node that gives the HQ Exp you want for ranking. The non-boss nodes only gives peanuts.

If you ask your friend what is the big/game-changing difference between and uncleared 5-4 and a cleared 5-4, if he isn't able to answer you, that would be sign number two.

Not to mention that you should be clearing 5-5 (that is obviously only unlocked after 5-4) if you want to rank. You'd require quite a number of 5-4 runs you'd have to make up for not clearing 5-5 (and that's just to play catch up)