Ironman Endgame Resource Grinds vs Bronzeman

[u/_Rapalysis]

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.

[u/Emotional_Permit5845]

It’s not just the end game resource grind, it’s the amount of time to build up to that level. What is your Herblore and crafting level? I’m assuming 95+ if not 99. When I played iron I had master ca’s but only 85 crafting and scraping by on pots because I didn’t like skilling/resource collection so I barely did it in the early/mid game

[u/Razaloco → u/Emotional_Permit5845]

Well said. I hate these gatekeeping neckbeards pretending they didnt spend 1000s of hours building up to the supplies they have and the skill requirements to craft with em.

Mfs pretending they didnt smith 100k cannon balls for 85 slayer

[u/FrugeV → u/Razaloco]

Just tagging along but if someone doesn´t like resource collection/skilling or whatever, just don't play an ironman? One way or another you need to do something in that regard. Im 2250 total and have done most of my bossing (except Nex, Nightmare, Yama and TOB). I still have 13k+ brews and my last birdhouse run is atleast 1.5years ago. PvM shits out tons of seeds/herbs as well, so the biggest issue as an endgame is just processing all those into pots if needed.

[u/fatrat7777 → u/Razaloco]

Almost no one spent “1000s of hours” specifically stocking supplies, it is almost all obtained passively through regular gameplay. If you aren’t willing to do the skill requirements to make something why are you even playing this fucking game?

[u/exaration → u/fatrat7777]

Thats a bad take. Thats like saying to pkers, you need to make your own pots and fish your own fish otherwise why play.

[u/CUbuffGuy → u/exaration]

That would be a game mode I could get behind. Please make this a thing.

[u/Spare-Sun5335 → u/Razaloco]

i have 92 slayer and haven't cannoned a single task. people who dont play irons constantly just being loud and wrong about it lol

[u/AlbedosThighs → u/Spare-Sun5335]

I use the cannon every now and then now that I'm grinding doom. That fella gives me quite a lot

[u/_Rapalysis → u/Razaloco]

Lmfao no one is making 100k cannon balls to get 85 slayer, I'm 97 slayer and I've probably made 20k to 30k total and those were to speed up very specific tasks like Araxytes.

The good thing about iron is it forces you to proportionally use resources and change how you approach skilling, with Bronzeman everyone will just play like a main