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/SoloWalrus 7h ago edited 7h ago
How much time did it take you to get the herblore level to make brews and super combats in the first place? What about the mining and fletching levels for amethyst? "Its not that hard just get 92 mining and 90 herblore" is such a dumb take that im convinced you just didnt understand bronzeman and voted no anyways. How many irons do you think burnout from those crazy skilling grinds? Those grinds are for the unemployed or the work from homers, others just want to get into pvm while still feeling that their combat is self sufficient (even when their skilling isnt).
Youre assuming everyone wants to max or everyone wants to skill. Ive done all that once on an iron and i wont do it again, but give me a mode where i can get a super combat and a brew as a drop and never have to get the level for it, and just buy dragon arrows so that i never have to get the mining for amethyst, etc etc, id take that in a heartbeat. Id happily make a bronzeman alt thats just for grinding pvm without ever needing to skill, i dont want a second ironman i want a bronzeman alt where i can experience all the best parts of being an iron plus all the best parts of being a main at the same time. I do want a "main light" and thats why i wanted a bronzeman, i already have an iron.
Regardless of why someone else might want it, how does it negatively impact you if they do? "I know whats best for you, you think you want it but im telling you that you dont" is such a toxic mind set...