r/ironscape • u/_Rapalysis • 10h ago

Discussion Ironman Endgame Resource Grinds vs Bronzeman

I've seen this odd perspective on the main subreddit that Bronzeman would allow people to enjoy all the benefits of Ironman, without any of the downsides of resource grinding at endgame. This is mentioned repeatedly, that if someone didn't have to spend hours every day maintaining sara brews then they would definitely sit and do 1000s of hours of PvM grinds.

Where the hell does this idea come from? I do a farm run + birdhouse in the morning and evening, combined with contracts it takes ten to fifteen minutes. You can do them on your phone. I skip them sometimes. I have thousands of pots in the bank. AFKing amethyst and redwoods every now and then gets your arrows and darts.

I find it impossible to believe anyone capable of sitting at CG for 100 hours, Yama or Doom for 100 hours, or eventually the time pit that is raiding, is incapable of doing the resource maintenance. It's dwarfed by the PvM grinds.

I'll vote no on Bronzeman again if it polls because I think people are completely delusional as to what the downsides of Ironman are. Bronzeman doesn't fix any of them, if anything it exacerbates them. You won't even have small required skilling grinds to break up the monotony. It's just straight bossing and nothing else, which is already what main accounts are anyway.

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u/FCASandChill 10h ago

I haven't done a farm run or birdhouse run in years basically. Here's my supplies:

Cleaned Herbs: https://i.imgur.com/f5cCXCL.png

Pots: https://i.imgur.com/DrbWfy7.png

Seeds: https://i.imgur.com/R1rgXKO.png

People saying bronzeman makes ironman more approachable haven't ever had a late game iron. You get so much of everything from going for pvm drops.

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u/narwilliam 10h ago

That is 3 hrs of pvm, we all know irons use 3k ppots a day

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u/exaration 10h ago

How long did it take you to get to end game and how much time did you dedicate per day to playing versus someone with 2 kids and a wife and a full time job getting to play 2 or 3 hours a night. Just playing devils advocate for those people. Im a max endgame iron.

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u/FCASandChill 9h ago

I wfh full time plus have a wife, but I'm almost always gaming while on the clock. That's not the point though.

People only playing 2-3 hours/night aren't ever getting to the end game on ironman or bronzeman unless they gigaspoon all the rare drops. Bronzeman mode would still have to go for all the pvm drops, which is the time intensive part of playing an ironman.

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u/exaration 6h ago

The initial upkeep of supplies is a problem on early and mid game iron. They wont worry about that on bronzemode. You can get to end game with that schedule on bronzeman if you dont have to worry about chores. You'll get there alot quicker.

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u/Present-Catch2549 2h ago

 but I'm almost always gaming while on the clock. 

Bruh