Quote Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
If you stick around and watch for events you get 5* thrown at you basically.

Played since day 1 and have a lot of 5* by now and more to come.
- Three 5* from Daily gachas and that 3 maga discount gacha.
- One 5* from Christmas guranteed gacha.
- Two 5* from New Years guranteed gacha.
- All players got Oda 5* from campaign normal event
- One or Two more 5* will be given out on 31st for campaign hard event
- One 5* Tenkai from crossover event with X-Over
- One 5* Yodo from current event
- One 5* every month from logging in every day (this month it's Oda)
- Two 5* from guild wars, which are not pay to win at all, but you need to be active to get into a good guild

Also they throw enough free maga at you from campaigns, events, daily rewards (and at some point 3 more per day for clearing total war map) so that you can realistically expect two more 5* per month.

So contrary to the rumours, it is actually fairly free to play friendly by now, if you stay active and don't get disencouraged as a new player just starting out.
While I don't agree with the OP's point, most of what you've listed here is inaccessible to me.
I haven't had great luck with the daily/discount. I wasn't playing at Christmas/New Years.
Normal campaign - wasn't active in time for that and as it is chapter 11 of Odas was tough.
Hard campaign - haha nope.
Crossover - wasn't playing X-Over and didn't have time for that.
Current event - not going to happen either. I'll be lucky to make it to Oda Nobuhide (4*) - can't complete the special stage without multiple revives.
Monthly login - ok, that one I will be able to get.
Guild wars? I'm looking at my best senki compared to the guild leaders helper and it's just a joke that I'd be able to do anything, and my schedule I think doesn't work well with it either.
(My best at this time is a 4* pre-evolution). I have a few cloths so I can evolve a few 4*s once I get the rest of the materials but it seems like a lot of stuff is slated to be hard if that's all you have.