Quote Originally Posted by VeyaAkemi View Post
Oh, you think *getting* the character is the end of the grind? no, no, you are critically misunderstanding how gachas work, first you need to get the character you want, then you need to spend the next 40 hours, split between weeks to months due to energy systems, doing the most braindead grind imaginable, stuff that makes Shared FATE grind seem exciting and thrilling, to get enough materials to level them up and rank up all their skills, then you need to spend... at minimum 80 hours, but depending how hard you want to go for it effectively limitless, hours grinding gear for that character, until you eventually settle for something that's like maybe 70% of the way to ideal, then you go online, be it reddit, Twitter, whatever, and see someone posting the absolute most pristine piece of gear imaginable with the title "First time doing domains, is this any good?".

Realistically, the bulk of gacha currency grind happens almost passively while doing all that other stuff, they get you with *everything else* by intentionally making all the necessary aspects of engaging with the gameplay miserable.
getting the character is the end of the time limited grind yes, everything else can be done as fast or as slow as you want.
time limited weapons are not needed and really just the limited characters matter in terms of getting them right now

the grind whales skip is they can pay 2,000 dollars to get 6 copies of the character and limited weapon to roll over content right now.