The game is really not pay to win....and I saying this after playing for a month now...I have 3 heroes already at legendary....there are plenty of events  happening in the game for you to earn Limited Recruitment Cards, Advanced Recruitment Cards, and Normal Recruitment Cards...all you need a bit of planning and timing of the events to get these Cards absolutely free....I might have got even 100s of them from the events and ingame s like Terra Dome, Wasteland and Cinsaro Marsh...these will give you at minimum 3 to 5 Advanced Recruitment Cards everyday....and the Rise of Heroes and Ancient Altar will give you Limited Recruitment Cards every week man be patient and play your cards strategically and you'll end up with SSS Heroes currently I have 3 one of them almost legendary.

I won't say its pay to win cause the drop rate are high and all, and its easy to gain CS for day one player, the game is only day for one or first week player, for player who recently started playing, it will be fun for untill you reach level 30ish, after that its nightmare, the 500 experience multiplier will let you reach level 60 in a short time without increasing much CS, and don't even talk about equipment farming, you will reach level 60+ with just farming and trying to upgrade, you will only deal about 10% damage of other player who started from the first week eventhough you will have same level🥲