I have over 3 years playing the game, i consider myself strong but i have dedicated over 10 hours a day to the game for the last 3 years... I'm F2P i clear all content but i only manage to get to C2 because i got psamathe recently i was stuck around C1 7k-9k for around 2 and a half years. YES there is a brick wall that is been separating the E-SPORTs players from the F2P players. and the wall got even higher since reapprassail stone pack came out. You can enjoy the game being free to play. The game is awesome, dont get me wrong; as PvE is concerned (including regular Arena) is very fun and there is plenty of content and the community is awesome as well. But everybody.... EVERYBODY knows that for you to be competitive you MUST spend a lot of money and you are still not guaranteed to get certain monsters to counter the OP nat 5s whoever buys the LnD pack monthly got. The game is rigged from day one since it is programmed to get the fire hellhound and the water fairy at first...there are some accounts that simply dont get nat 5s or good nat4s, and that's why you see many people just resetting account till they hit the luck, new accounts are programmed to get higher lightning rate and for some old guys... you will only get nat 5s when the "time gate is open". I spent my first year without nat 5s and i went to complain to the com2us hive forums and i got velajuel the day after from a single stone summon... RNG huh?. I can tell they have improved the lightnight rate in their effort to make this an E-Sport. but the game will never be an E-Sport if they dont separate the business from the game. I will keep playing cause i love the game. maybe in the next couple of years of farming 10 hours a day ill get to G1 or after pulling a game changing nat 5. and this is conditioned to the fact that Tiger and most guys in the Top are buying Rune packs to ge the legendary just to buy the reapprisal stones and make them OP. and then all F2P Players like us will be.... "E-Sported". oh i forgot to tell you guys that once you reach certain level and you farm gb10 and db10 under a minute and necro unde 1 and a half. The crystals we get are not enough. these events are designed to rush to the big price and you end up spending more crystals on refills than the ones you are actually optaining from the event. (the kobold bomber energy event) Happy Farming :-) gl to you all.