The game made an interesting decision that both you and the article completely missed. A significant portion of the progress players is available via events.

The game made an interesting decision that both you and the article completely missed. A significant portion of the progress players is available via events. Weekly and monthly events. Events on a rotating schedule give you bonuses for using each metagame system to the fullest. Examples: - monthly Tavern complete X # of quests for guaranteed rewards - monthly fight X # of times in PVP for guaranteed rewards - monthly PVE battle for guaranteed rewards - weekly gacha summon - summon 500. During this event likelihood of 5* is doubled and guaranteed rewards - weekly random gem boxes - weekly blacksmith event - weekly campaign loot event - guaranteed 5* for logging in Utilizing these events to the fullest separates the long-term players from short-term players. Wasting $$ outside of these events is not recommended. This turns the game back into a fair amount of idling as you collect the resources to fill each event and wait for the right opportunity to utilize them. Then you often get major boosts of power and multiple copies of high rated characters. So a single month of playing is barely enough to make it through one rotation and probably not enough to utilize any of them.