People are having misconceptions that maxing this guy will take you almost 2 years because of his 1 shard a day hard quest, thus 600 shards = 600 days. This is a pretty dumb argument as you can buy 5 shards guaranteed a week not including that it may pop up randomly in refresh and whimsy even if chances are low when he is not rated up in a featured banner. I maxed mine in 3 months. Did not buy his shard when the game was first released and he was first featured because I was still skeptical and new to the game and did not know anything, but I did his shard quest every day and even pulled dupes of him, then the featured banner came and I was able to max limit broken him shortly after. If I had started working on him since the game started, I'd have probably maxed him out way sooner. So the longer you delay because you are scared that he's too expensive or too hard to max, then the longer you are missing out on an extremely great unit that's literally a must in every single slash oriented team (literally 80% of the players I'd assume). If you can save 30-60k vis for a limited unit as a F2P, you can do it for Gilgamesh.