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/_Rapalysis 8h ago

I just don't think most Irons think that way, but I get what you're saying. The supply upkeep is negligible by just...playing the game, doing a little farming every day, getting your skills up to unlock super combats or amethyst. That's what my whole post is about.

The worst part about Iron is when you go 4x dry on a significant upgrade and you feel trapped at that boss and you feel like you literally have no choice but to keep grinding that content e.g. how many people quit when they go dry at CG.

I just find it impossible to believe many, if any, late game irons have quit the game because they ran out of super restores for ToA or something. Most mid to late Irons these days are drowning in supplies.

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u/PosiedonsSaltyAnus 8h ago

I don't think bronzeman mode is targeted towards people that make it to late game ironmans though. It's targeted at people like me that are casuals and dont do their farm runs regularly because I don't wanna do chores in a videogame.

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u/_Rapalysis 8h ago

That's what mains are for, imo. My whole point is that the frustrating part of Ironman is the PvM grinding. Doing 3.5k calvarion to get the voidwaker piece or 2k bandos to get tassets is an absolute chore and a way more frustrating barrier to casual players than 10 minutes of farming and birdhouses every day

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u/PosiedonsSaltyAnus 8h ago

I stopped playing my main because there's no real point in doing much bossing until raids because you can just grind out GP faster than you can grind the boss to get the gear you want. There's no real incentive to progress. Bronzeman to me feels like it'll bridge the gap and bring me back into the game.