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

I can confirm that F2P is not really that prohibitive in this game, as I've been F2P the entire time and I started just about 11 months ago, and certainly did not do things correctly or optimally at all:

https://swgoh.gg/u/kylekatarn24/collection/

I agree with the posts here...guild helps a TON. My phone account is only level 76 FTP and has 4 G9 toons already, some are ready to go to G10 already when I hit level 80. If you can't find a guild, send me a PM and we'd be happy to have ya!