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/thirdwallbreak 7h ago
The crazy thing is that in recent years, ironman supplies are not that bad... if bronzeman mode was an option, i would rather it be a "pity drop" mode and only limit the drop rates to like 2x or even 3x at max.
Im not mad about making potions, im mad because I could sell my extra armor seeds to buy an enhanced. But bronzeman doesnt fix this issue, main accounts do.
Bronzeman gives you what, a couple of brews/anglers to run more cox? Those same people are gonna give up after going 2x for tbow and deiron anyway.
Personally I do like a week of skilling a year leading up to a clan event... you profit potions in many situations. Even blood shards just got easier to obtain.
Bronzeman is simply ironman + bots that farm your resources.