2 years to gear 11: not a complaint, just a question

"Obi_six_Kenobi;97421" wrote:
I'm not a complainer, but I would like this clarified so I can determine if i want to continue playing this game or not.

I am currently a f2p lvl 72 and vascilate between 150 and 250 arena rank. I have 7 characters up to gear level 8, but the jump to level 9 seems intimidating and then I will still have to get the characters from 9 to 10 and then from 10 to 11.

For example, one of my characters requires 250 purple 100 of which are raid only, another 100 is farmable on LS/DS battles, the last 50 is easy as i can get it from the gear challenges. Spending all my energy on the farmable gear even with using the two 50/50 energy refreshes, I'll get about 5 a day so 100 would take 20 days. I have no idea how I'll get the raid only gear, I usually do well in the raids but even if I'm lucky enough to get the gear I actually need, I still only get about 10 pieces of it.

So, it seems like it will take about 1 month to get 1 character from gear 8 to 9. I can only assume levels 10 and 11 take even longer (I'll assume 1.5 months and 2 months respectively). So getting 1 character from 8 to 11 should take about 4.5 months.

Finally, to have a full squad of 5 characters at level 11 would take approximately 22.5 months, close to 2 years.

Is there something wrong with my math?

Am I missing something?

Have I reached the point that a f2p'er can realistically reach?

For all of you that do have many characters at gear 11, how long did it take you? Have any of you done it without paying a ton of money?

Again, I'm not trying to complain, just understand.