Technically, the game is Free-To-Play. 

If you want to compete in Every tournament the game presented to you, it is not Free-To-Win. 

Having played these kids of Freemium games since Friendster era (I bet 95% of you doesn't know what Friendster is), I can honestly say Raid is actually really generous on their freebies, specially for a game that has run this long, other games of this kind usually  have cut off their freebies for 50%-75%

As for energy, geez what are you people doing in the game? I honestly sometimes can't even spend all of the bonus free refills given by this game!

Freemium games like this is not something you should be playing in long sessions! If you find yourself playing any mobile freemium games for more than 2 hours a day, I would suggest for you to buy a game console!

Mobile games are meant to play in burst of 10-30 minutes while you're waiting for something else in your daily routine.

BUT having said that, Plarium you need to fix your classic arena ASAP because Bronze is still a mess... I've fought lots of full legendaries team in Bronze 4

JoinME said:

Technically, the game is Free-To-Play. 

If you want to compete in Every tournament the game presented to you, it is not Free-To-Win. 

JoinME said:

Technically, the game is Free-To-Play. 

If you want to compete in Every tournament the game presented to you, it is not Free-To-Win. 

Depend...if it translate get pass Silver Rank, WHICH SUPPOSED TO BE EASY FOR NEWBIE, it is not Free to Play.

Technically, the game is Free-To-Play. 

If you want to compete in Every tournament the game presented to you, it is not Free-To-Win. 

OzzLee said:

BUT having said that, Plarium you need to fix your classic arena ASAP because Bronze is still a mess... I've fought lots of full legendaries team in Bronze 4

Here! Here!

That's my only complaint. I kind of like the gambling aspect of pulling champs. Yes it's disappointing to get crap pulls, but when you get a good one it feels that much better.

I don't mind the slow grind. I can level chickens while I work if I have the energy, or wait until the daily reset and do it in the evening (happens at 5pm for my time zone).

Pretty much everything in the game has goals you can measure and achieve (some faster than others), EXCEPT arena. I'm about to hit my 60 day on tonight's reset and in the relatively short time I've been playing arena has gotten worse and worse. There was a stint where I could climb up the ranks. I even hit Silver a few times and got a handful of silver medals. Then I was stuck in high Bronze 4. Now I'm in low Bronze 4 with winnable (meaning chance to win, not easy guaranteed) getting less and less common on refreshes. 

Look around this forum. Arena is by far the #1 complaint players have about this game. 

You would think Plarium would make it a higher priority, especially with all of the great suggestions many players have made that would certainly alleviate some of the frustration.

For me to upgrade a rare to lvl 60 probably will take me a week...

Gear is where its kinda hard, since looking for specific stats and sub stats needs some luck, but once you get to brutal, it kinda gets easier, at least for placeholder equipments, before you grind  on dragons/ice golem/fire knight

And its only harder for the first hero, as you build a stockpile of unused equipments from previous gearing. 

Books is the next step, outside of the freebies you want to win them from events/tournaments, with the right preparation you can get the rare books or even epic books. Clan boss also drops book starting from Brutal difficulty I think.

For ascencion, it literaly take a me a day to get the ingredients

Masteries is the easiest di one of all, if you build your mines up to level 3 and participate in stuffs, collecting 800 gems is easy, and voila, full masteries!

I get my first 2 heroes masteries by using gems, and now I can farm minotaur, I farm it. But I'm still hoarding 800 gems for masteries. And NO I didn't buy them, gems are literally everywhere in this game

As I said, I've played thjs kind of games since long tine a go, and I am telling you, Raid is really high on the list of being accesible to F2P.

It's called timing and preparation!

OzzLee said:

It's called timing and preparation!

Question: how do you collect your reward and or freebies? Specially things like energy refill and 2x XP?

exactly that.

keep all extra energy unclaimed (200 from monthly, refills from weekly, energy rewards from tournaments / events) until it is either time to get them and complete weekly / monthly or event expires.

get 2x exp from weekly and use all energy you have amassed within those 24h - for lv60 account it means 720 energy available daily (130 x2 refills from daily / timer + 24h of ticking) + 2 refills from weekly + extras like events or monthly ...

when you are f2p - every move you make counts. If you don't do it right you fail. spender can just spend more to offset mistakes, f2p will need to live with them ... or quit.