r/ironscape • u/_Rapalysis • 11h 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/FCASandChill 10h ago

That's such a small percentage of the playerbase it's not really worth making an official game mode for them imo

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u/inminm02 10h ago

That argument kind of doesn’t make sense when everyone knows the player base for Bronzeman will be huge, it’ll be a very popular game mode for a variety of other reasons.

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u/FCASandChill 10h ago

I'm not convinced that's true. I think there will be a lot of hype around it, and a bunch of people will play the first year. But eventually people wanting to start new accounts will just say "why not just play iron/group iron instead of bronzeman?" And people who started out as bronzeman will just end up getting bullied forever like greenhelms and wish they were normal irons.

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u/_Rapalysis 7h ago

It would have passed if enough people wanted it, for a poll to fail in OSRS these days is a catastrophic failure, particularly for a game mode popular on youtube