User blog comment:TZ'sAki/Cashers=/=Beaters/@comment-25067771-20140812105958

A free player can probably rank every event, or at least every other event, just by the sheer number of light swords Nubee stuffs into F/AW rewards. I find it a strange notion to believe that free players cannot climb ladder. So long as you have traders and/or a good alliance, and you can kill your own AWs, which is easy enough even with a debuff deck, then it's possible to rank.

It'll take more effort of course, but in the end, more effort = more F/AW kills = more chances of getting good cards. The moment you get 1-2 aoe buffers, even at 0*, you are in a serious position to contend on ladder since you will be able to damage or kill FAWs. Anecdotal as it is, I was able to contend for top 500 just with 0* Polaris. And a friend I know made it to top 300 completely free while running 1* Himiko and 0* SR Asherah.

The people who rag on cashers won't go away anytime soon. The resentment will always be there so long as there is a difference in cards; such is the human emotion known as envy. Before I turned into a cash player I always thought 'damn that card looks nice'. Of course, my 'disdain' for cash players was little-to-none, but I suppose it gets to some people. And within that group of people that it gets to, there are vocal people. I wouldn't let it bother you too much. I'm sure for every vocal person hating on cashers there are a hundred or more that don't mind.