Quote Originally Posted by Justg View Post
Free players will have a path to grind all the way through this system.
You get 3 free entrances per day. 1 free entrance per hour. This is with the quests. That is a maximum of 27 entrance tokens per day assuming a player plays 24/7.
Each boss you kill guarantees you 1 fragment as far as I've been able to tell. So this is a maximum of 27 fragments per day.
Looking at the crafting table, it requires 10+20+40+80+160 of each rune to upgrade to arcane.
Summing that together, we get 310 of each rune, or 620 runes in total to upgrade to arcane artifact.
It requires 25 fragments to purchase 1 rune.
So, 620 runes * 25 fragments each rune = 15,500 fragments total to upgrade to arcane.
15,500 fragments at a rate of at most 27 per day assuming playing nonstop every day is just over 574 days of nonstop in game play time to farm the fragments for arcane artifact.

So, yes, technically free-to-play has the opportunity to craft these artifacts from purely farming, but somebody somewhere needs to come to the realization that players don't get excited for 1.5 years required to grind for 1 single item.