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Iron Man Challenge!
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:33 am
by ravingsockmonkey
There's a topic on the DPS forums detailing an Iron Man Challenge to those that want to try something new. I was considering giving it a shot, and figured I'd post it here to see if anyone else was interested.
The rules are as follows:
1) No items equipped other than White or Gray items.
2) No heirlooms
3) No talent points- no specialization - you may train class abilities
4) No professions, primary or secondary, other than First Aid.
5) No food or water above vendor-quality white items.
6) No groups- no BG's, no instances, no raids, no quest groups. No guilds.
7) No enchants, scrolls, potions/elixirs, or glyphs.
8) No outside financial or equipment assistance (no gold or bags from other toons)
9) THE BIG ONE - if you die, ever, you delete that toon and start over at lvl 1
You may choose any available race/class combination for the IMC as long as 1-9 are followed strictly.
With these restrictions I figured racials suddenly would be a much bigger deal.
Here's the list of racials for each race.
I'm torn between draenei for the self heal + hit bonus, troll for the regeneration bonus + bow racial, and goblin for rocket damage + faction discount + haste bonus.
Survivability will be a big issue since you're going to be in whites and greys + no talents or glyphs.
Re: Iron Man Challenge!
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:03 am
by Nili
9) THE BIG ONE - if you die, ever, you delete that toon and start over at lvl 1
Yeah, I played another game called Shaiya where you actually grinded for months to unlock modes where if you died, your character was deleted. Was the worst idea ever, why would I willingly do this to myself? :S
Re: Iron Man Challenge!
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:39 pm
by Worba
Eesh. No thanks.
Re: Iron Man Challenge!
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 10:23 am
by CrystalKitten
This is similar to ideas in my post about coming up with new challenges for playing the game. I actually had many of these ideas, but combining them all into ONE challenge wasn't one. But I have thought of doing 1 (already done 2 so many times), 3 (or the opposite, talents but no training), 7 I don't usually bother with when leveling anyways, same with 5, done 8 several times too, especially since I tend to server hop. And I thought of doing 9 on it's own too. Putting them all into 1 seems just a little bit much for me though.
Re: Iron Man Challenge!
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:14 pm
by Worba
I could never agree to #9 even by itself - what happens if your group wipes because the tank went linkdead, or you made the bottom of the healer's triage list during an overpull, etc etc.
Now that said, I would love to see more solo challenge - things like solo instances where you could adjust the difficulty as high as you wanted (just for non-combat rewards though, so that regular dungeons stay relevant).
Re: Iron Man Challenge!
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 7:53 am
by Nili
Worba wrote:I could never agree to #9 even by itself - what happens if your group wipes because the tank went linkdead, or you made the bottom of the healer's triage list during an overpull, etc etc.
Now that said, I would love to see more solo challenge - things like solo instances where you could adjust the difficulty as high as you wanted (just for non-combat rewards though, so that regular dungeons stay relevant).
6) No groups- no BG's, no instances, no raids, no quest groups. No guilds.
You wouldn't go in instances with this challenge anyways.
Re: Iron Man Challenge!
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 8:35 am
by Miyon
I gave up on this challenge when I read rule #9.. Leveling a druid to 85 with 0 kills and 0 quests, and only gaining exp from exploring, herbing and mining is enough for me. And leveling a hunter with no pets to 85.
Re: Iron Man Challenge!
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 5:43 pm
by Worba
Nili wrote:Worba wrote:I could never agree to #9 even by itself - what happens if your group wipes because the tank went linkdead, or you made the bottom of the healer's triage list during an overpull, etc etc.
Now that said, I would love to see more solo challenge - things like solo instances where you could adjust the difficulty as high as you wanted (just for non-combat rewards though, so that regular dungeons stay relevant).
6) No groups- no BG's, no instances, no raids, no quest groups. No guilds.
You wouldn't go in instances with this challenge anyways.
Ok, so it's down to solo questing then - which is still extremely easy even in whites or grays. The only difficulty really is that you could become so hazy from the boredom that eventually you stumble into a patrol and forget to hit FD...
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Re: Iron Man Challenge!
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:52 pm
by SylviaDragon
o.O wow that harsh. I could see a draenei hunter (fd and hot) or Nelf hunter/ rogue working well for this. (shadowmeld + fb or vanish?) I know that shadowmeld has saved my life more times then i can count. I doubt i will ever do this since i had to do a lot of lvling without help/gold/heirlooms to begin with and know how frail you are in grays. >.< I got to about lvl 40 on my draenei mage though without getting killed a year or two back so it could be fun. Good luck to anyone giving this a try. Something with a tank pet and some way of healing will probably do best.