Recommend up to level 18 for F2P players

If you plan to play long-term, I recommend spending all the coins you get initially and starting in a top Korean guild. However, there's a different hurdle compared to similar games. While in other games, F2P players can grow reasonably well with a little effort, in this game, everyone starts by spending a lot, there are fewer freebies, and the characters are mostly obtained through spending, leading to a very rapid gap early on. There need to be many F2P players for spenders to show off and act as whales, but here, everyone spends ambiguously from the start, and becoming a whale is impossible without serious commitment lol. So, if it suits you, spend heavily, or just dabble until level 18!