Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26067536-20150418204703/@comment-66.62.115.199-20150418213853

I'm a ranker and a F2P person whose RAT is in the top 100, and this is basically how I see the whole breakdown:

It's entirely possible to rank in the top 100 as a free player, given that you 1. have a capable FAW team that can regularly deal 5+mil dmg, 2. have a good stock of swords (and possibly shoes) available, and 3. have a FAW sharing alliance and comrades willing to trade and send to you. The fourth baseline, which applies to everyone, is just simply pouring hours into the game per day. I never rank 2 events or more in a row, since I need cooldown time to stock up on swords and whatnot again.

Normally if i do rank, I go to the top 300 to get the HUR (I only have once ranked top 100, and that was a pain in the arse). It requires me setting aside anywhere from two to four hours for the game per day.

Now, for the people that rank close to or within the top 10... I can say for sure that 90% of those people are going to be cashers (or have paid real money for the game some point in their lives). They have the HSR event killers that multiply the amount of points they get, so killing FAW will be a breeze (one of my alliance mates did 4 HSR event killers before -- they got ~110k points per FAW kill, where you'd normally get ~30k).

Overall, I just gotta say one thing: as a F2P, patience is your best asset when it comes to ranking. You're going to need time to stock your supplies, build a good FAW team from free cards, and hopefully get yourself a good set of comrades and a good alliance.