I wouldn't fixate on ranks at all. My wife and I have alt accounts and finally decided to get our warclaws for them. On my main account I am rank 5,990 while my alt is a whopping 58. It was actually pretty funny watching gold/plat/mithril roamers come after me for what they thought was an easy kill against my core warrior only to get spanked hard. That being said, figure out traits/utilities that can mitigate some of that condi and use them at the appropriate time. Good luck!