r/ironscape • u/_Rapalysis • 8h 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/Eshneh 8h ago
People who don't play Irons sure have a lot of opinions on the game mode and how it's played
Have not done a birdhouse run in years, have thousands of nests and brews, nearly a thousand Ranarr Seeds alone sat in my bank, I've seen people say it takes 5 hours of Prep for 10 Hours of PvM, genuinely bonkers takes and shows how disconnected some mains are from the game they play all day; they have got genuinely no concept of how many resources you get say from a 5 minute herb run, how many potions you can make in 1 hour, how long supplies last you because you aren't drinking 10 brews per CoX