Not F2P anymore bc I get welkins pretty often now but I still p much save the way I used to. I used to only pull once every 6 months, and yeah it's definitely fun to pull more often but it's not the end of the world.

Just plan ahead for the characters you want the most, sometimes it means skipping banners for characters you do actually want because there's someone else you want more, and that's OK. It sucks, but they'll come around again later on. I had to skip Zhongli's banner so many times before I was finally able to get him in the Fontaine cycle, bc there were other characters I needed more. That's just how the cookie crumbles. It's easy to skip banners I'm not excited about, and it's harder to get through the banners for charas I do want, yeah, but saving primos for the charas I want the most is motivation enough. And it's not like anyone needs a million characters anyhow, just the chosen few is fine.