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Subject: Till Death Do You Part
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Players across Azeroth have recently embraced a new, very personal achievement: leveling a character "Iron Man" style. What started out as only a small movement, this bare bones, no-frills style of play has now transformed into a community-wide call-to-arms known as the Iron Man WoW Challenge, inviting World of Warcraft enthusiasts to see how close they can get to level cap with only the barest of necessities.

The goal of the Iron Man WoW challenge is simple: reach level 85. The catch, however, is that you must accomplish this task without the assistance of talents, class specialization, stat-improved gear, professions, buffs, item enhancements, or other players. And if you die? Well, then it?s back to square one.

Here are some of the latest rules, courtesy of Selenagnomez ? Kil'jaeden:

THE BIG ONE: If you die, EVER, that character is removed from the challenge.

Gear Rules:
1) No heirlooms.
2) No items equipped other than White or Gray items (except bags)
3) No item enhancements -- enchants/spellthread/weapon chains/etc.

Consumable Rules:
4) No food buffs. Only white vendor-quality food & drink may be used.
5) No item buffs. No scrolls, elixirs, flasks, etc. (except Quest items).
6) No potions (except Quest items).

Spells & Abilities Rules:
7) You may train and use class abilities learned from trainers (including Rogue poisons).
8) No talent points/pet talent points.
9) No specialization. No glyphs.

Gameplay Rules:
10) No guild perks. If you are guilded, it must be a level 1 guild.
11) No questing groups. All combat must be soloed -- parties to trade/portal/etc. are permitted.
12) No battlegrounds/arenas.
13) No dungeons/raids that reward experience. All leveling must be done out in the world.
14) No combat-enhancing addons (QuestHelper/Auctioneer/etc. are fine, use your own judgment).
15) No professions, primary or secondary, other than First Aid.
16) No sending gold/items from other characters*.

*You must earn your own gold/items via questing, looting, or trading/AHing.



Interested? Awesome! To sign-up for the Iron Man WoW Challenge and discuss your progress with fellow participants (once you get started), head on over to the official forums. Additional rules and details can also be found on the unofficial Iron Man WoW website, hosted and moderated by players like you.
http://ironmanwow.freeforums.org/ http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/4015202822


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Leaving a mighty big hole where with being able to buy/sell from AH. Granted it means luck is a big factor as you cannot have a trade skill to gather/create items to sell or use. The white/gray item equipped requirement is odd as it means you must sell all quest rewards. Casting classes, in particular warlocks are least impacted by this requirement. Some classes may not see any appropriate white/gray weapons which will artificially raise their difficulty for large level ranges.

 

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Challenging =/= tedious and time consuming.

 

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Used to do this in Diablo, except multiplayer vs mode sorta thing.

Can make any class you want.
Can spend your initial 100g. Usually on 2 health pots tongue
Once you go into the Cathedral, you cannot come out.
The first person to die loses, or the last person left alive wins if more than 2 people.

Was actually pretty fun. Did one a few months back with a friend. I body-blocked him in with Leoric and he rage quit, didn't wanna play again, lol.

 

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in short the game is so stupid easy people are bending over backwards trying to find a challenge.

 

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This may seriously top all of the pathetic things I've ever seen in the MMO gaming world.

 

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Once these people hit Cata zones they're all gonna go splat.

 

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Why would anyone level that way all the way to cata? <facepalm>. I usually love seeing player generated content like this in games (surprisingly since I'm not a roleplayer), but this one strikes me as just a silly shot at the moon.

 

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Meh, I could see the appeal. I'd never do it, but whatever.

WoW's become so faceroll that I suppose this could be fun, like Hardcore in Diablo II.

I do like to be challenged in most of the games I play. Which is why I loved Dark Souls so much. After you learn it well though it's a lot easier. But the first few weeks of that game were bloody amazing.

 

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This should be a wake up call to blizzard when their game has gotten pretty bad that players are desperate enough to go to these extremes just to try to keep leveling from being so mind numbingly boring.

 

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Spookysheep posted:
This may seriously top all of the pathetic things I've ever seen in the MMO gaming world.

Dums posted:
Once these people hit Cata zones they're all gonna go splat.


QFT.

 

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The reason this worked in Diablo 2 is because you could pump your skills ability without the use of gear simply through leveling. Also, most of the time these 'hardcore 'hardcore'' people would use a pet summoner class which would allow you to have quite powerful pets with only grey equipment on. You can't even compare that to WoW because WoW is I'd say 98% gear.

a.k.a. These people are moronic.

 

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GrimTempest posted:
in short the game is so stupid easy people are bending over backwards trying to find a challenge.


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I'm thinking the people involved in this are less concerned with finding challenges and more concerned with bragging about how "hardcore" they are.

 

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The only hardcore that could ever impress me would be Xena and Gabrielle "because they really need the money".

 

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LOL!

 

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Just as a "BTW" Jared, if you have not watched Spartacus Blood and Sand (on starz or netflix) you totally need to check it out. No gabrielle, but you get Xena full frontal and total soft porn! o.0

 

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Oh, I've watched the first season and the prequel. Haven't seen any episodes this season yet cos I'm still missing Andy Whitfield. I don't think anyone can replace him as Spartacus.

Also, I can't imagine what Lucy's daughter and husband think of her scenes cos they are both involved in the filming. LOL

 

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JaredKorry posted:
Oh, I've watched the first season and the prequel. Haven't seen any episodes this season yet cos I'm still missing Andy Whitfield. I don't think anyone can replace him as Spartacus.

Also, I can't imagine what Lucy's daughter and husband think of her scenes cos they are both involved in the filming. LOL



ZOMG! I can't imagine doing soft porn in from of my kid! (Who I assume is an adult and all, but still, barf!!!!)

But yeah, no Whitfield means I'm done with the show.

Not like there will be any more naked Lucy Lawless either so....

 

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Yeah, her daughter is an adult and works in a film editing capacity or something similar. I saw an interview with Lucy about it and she said her daughter just turns her back when it comes to editing her scenes. Not to mention that her husband, Rob Tapert, is the one of the executive producers on the show. Very opened minded family they are. heh

 

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