The “free” episode track no longer is free

F2P player here. I have reached level 42 so far, and I even missed two quests that required you to participate in a TW. With 6 days left, I will likely reach 48 simply through daily quests. Given that there are several episode quests yet to be revealed, it’s likely I can complete some of those and reach 50. Your chances of completing the episode track and earning the LST as a F2P player are very good, especially if you were able to participate in a TW and get those quests. Is it annoying that a “free” quests seems to require you to pay after all? Yes. But you will probably still complete the track. But if you want complete it as F2P you will need to play pretty much every day and complete the daily quests every day.