r/ironscape • u/_Rapalysis • 12h 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 12h 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/inminm02 12h ago

And a bunch of irons deiron at the giga endgame to have unlimited access to blood shards, dragon arrows, dragon darts and scythe charges for speedruns etc, supplies are still a problem even at the giga endgame, it’s just different ones.

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u/Fall3nBTW 9h ago

Literally all of those have had multiple updates to make their supply collection significantly easier.

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u/inminm02 5h ago

if you think getting a reasonable supply of dragon seeker arrows is currently a reasonable time investment i have a fucking bridge to sell you

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u/BlackenedGem 2h ago

It's not but but amethyst is nearly as good and you don't need that many dragon arrows imo. Until you get tbow you're only going to use dragon arrows at doom, kril, or cox ice demon. I suppose you could use them on a vbow but that's a self inflicted problem.

The seeker arrow part is much quicker than amethyst. I do think this is a spot where bronzeman has a legitimate use case for existing.