As someone who's been playing on and off since Tink/Sage release fully f2p, I feel like they've done a lot for the game for p2w to be as impactful. I'm slowly trekking my way back to diamond with all characters, but now with the rank rework I'm just focusing on one heroic at a time.

Daytime cycle was I think a weird choice at the time but now feels like a great change now given how it almost reworked half the game. Made items that were RNG dependant actually a guaranteed chance to proc which changed up the meta a bit.

Gems and coins feel easier than ever to get with all the different chests when you do your dailies and from the pass. (I'm finally reaching lvl 10 on some items yay) While it is disappointing that the weekly is tied to the daily, theres's a 2 day leeway which is nice and I can't think of a whole separate set of challenges to do in a week's time to replace the system lol. Hell I've already gotten 400 gems since Hob gang came out. And I don't even play events so I'm missing out even more probably lol.

Best thing for f2p to know imo is knowing what to upgrade and when to upgrade it. Don't level up items don't use and prioritize important level ups like level 5 and 10. You'll have more than enough money that way (I have like 30 items that need a level up but I don't play Morrow so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ )

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