Well,you can still get the Chaemeth for tickets during ticket events or you can get soul from dungeons and on marketplace of course not everyone is ready to invest money in the game cause it's double investement from your free time and the time you spent working at your job.No one talkes about it but an active player will always be better at the game than one that donates but is barely active but there is absolutely no chance that an active player will surpass another active one that is investing his money as well...
About the rebalance,well i'm really happy that in future updates we will be only availeble to get 1 epic of a type which will help to balance the difference between players a little tho would be nice if we could get to buy maritimers tickets with gold as well maybe or something similar to the current valentine's day promo where you choose to pay with soul or gold for a trophy?