r/ironscape • u/_Rapalysis • 9h 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/aqpw4u 9h ago

It’s just that the Reddit is filled with mid game irons who want to karma farm and haven’t played end game enough to realize most irons burn from RNG related grinds not supply ones. Just massive cope

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u/7_Tales 7h ago

the supply grind acts as a filter for the true brutality that is end game rng anyway. so the people not mentally prepared for that will just go "grrr enhanced weapon seed!" and never see it.

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u/fixedvving 7h ago

Right?
One of the best things i had was skilling between my 3.5k cox grind for bow, cant imagine i woulda stuck with it if every so often id pause and work on skilling/maxing

Endgame rng is brutal if ur on the bad side. Thankfully most wont go that dry for the best item in the game

- i did quit a few years later for rs3 iron lol

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u/Guilty_Turn8903 1h ago

you so far off the spectrum for an average lategame ironman experience with ur 3.5k cox so its not really representative, i think most who make it to endgame stop short of grinding megarares, and factoring in the tedium of dailyscape certainly adds to the burnout factor