Talk:Desert Dreams/@comment-70.71.230.47-20160212091154/@comment-5665420-20160212145816

You need either time or money basically, if you have neither, it'll take forever to collect enough cards. If you play smart and use your free items and regenerated points properly, it's not too difficult. For a free player, I'd say you can't do much until lv 60-70, simply because you don't have enough vitality and bp. So, it's better to save on your items starting as early as possible to build a stock when you can rank.

For example, I had over 5000 jewels I'd collected over events and weeks, with which I bought rods for previous alliance battle. Participated in only half the rounds and ended in top 250 despite the deficit.

I'd say it's close to impossible to climb up to top 10 completely for free though; unless the pts boost cards are terrible for that particular event. You need too much time to make up for the deficit at the top of the competition.