I've been playing Naruto online for a couple months now. I've spent a few bucks on the game here and there, but I'm not really a big spender. I'm sitting at a bit over 40k power (rank 87 on our merged servers) with a fire main Bomb team (Deidara, Konan, Tobi) that - at least guides from last year said - was good. Now that we're getting into GNW more, I want to start taking things a bit more seriously. I know that I'm never going to carry the group - unless I drop some cash on ninjas - but I want to be useful... or at least not a hindrance.

My goal has been to gain as much power as possible, so ranking up ninja stars, buying magatama and "mysterious caves". Will that make me competitive at least? I really, really don't like RNG loot systems, so unless I get lucky I probably won't get any rare ninja anytime soon. By that same token, I'll drop a $20 here and there, but not the $150 for this weeks Edo Tensei Nagato lol.

I guess you can boil the whole thing down to this. Does Power beat (or at least hang with) P2W Ninja? If I run an essentially F2P team, but spend credits on directly raising my power is that worth my time and money? Or will a 3-star P2W always been better than a 5-star F2P?