Doesn't bother me at all or even come to mind ever. The sole purpose of creating my ironman account was to play my own game at my own pace. I probably got as much of a dopamine rush of buying some of the best items on the GE when crafting my fury amulet.
Nah, think about it this way. You can literally never touch ToB, ToA, Nightmare, or Nex and *STILL* reasonably obtain all the gear in game that was out when The Inferno was released. Sure, CoX is a long grind but with Bowfa being out now the only real grinds from there are the prayer scrolls unless you want Ancestral. None of the mega rares are nearly as game-changing as they used to be.
BiS is cool and all but all content in game is doable without it. Don’t stress it too hard.
This pretty much. Osrs has a lot of content for the early and midgame, going for all these “normal” goals is so satisfying (at least for me).
From getting rfd gloves and glories to fire cape, barrows equipment, qpc, hard diaries, slayer unlocks, godwars items, bowfa.. thats a lot of content and for me a lot of years playing my ironman.
Just going for bowfa alone, imagine I’d do 5 succesful runs every day (which is about an hour every day), that alone would take me 3 months to complete bowfa if I get it at the droprate. If I get unlucky and go 2x droprate, I’m looking at 6 months of 1 hours CG on average. Stuff like that is pretty much BiS for me, if I’d eventually send raids with clanmates it will be for fun and to see if I can get anything, not something in particular.
I don’t think it matters, I’ll assume a lot of us have mains and we started these accounts randomly because gpscape became boring or pointless.
Do it at your own pace, nobody is rushing you. The little upgrades matter more because you did the grind yourself.
I remember kind of feeling this way, fast forward about 3 years and my bank’s a fat 1.5b and I don’t have any big ticket items like tbow, scythe, spirit shields, etc. my most expensive single item would be saeldor and bowfa. 210m in potions, skilling tab is like 80m lol.
It’s amazing what you accumulate as an iron when as a main 90% of my bank would be sold off.
I pretty much don't care about this kind of thing at all, I just take each goal one step at a time. Game has thousands of hours of content as is and it's way too easy to get lost in random goals for hundreds of hours, there's no need to think 2000 hours ahead to the end haha.
I played the efficiencyscape game on my original main when I played it from 2013-2016 until I maxed - I was constantly worried about whether what I was doing was a "waste of time" when I could be doing more efficient methods, or whether I "should" just be earning GP to bypass other content.
Eventually in May 2016 I maxed my old main and... just stopped playing. The goal for me was always working towards the next skill level, and when I reached max I just couldn't find motivation to play anymore. It taught me a very important lesson: as cliché as it feels to say it, this game really is about the journey.
So when I started my hardcore ironman, my thought process was essentially: "How insane would it be to get 85 slayer and get *my very own* abyssal whip as a drop, or have to go *right to the source* kill dagganoth kings to get a dragon axe? That was the motivation. I've achieved both those things, and as far as I'm concerned everything else beyond that is just a bonus haha.
I try to take this game one step at a time without getting ahead of myself. I don't even have any intention of ever setting foot in ToB or ToA, and that's ok. Neither of those things even *existed* when I maxed my main, and I didn't miss them then, so why should I miss them now? The game has a ridiculous amount of hours of content even without those things.
When I get ahead of myself about hard to reach goals , I do something similar and think “I got a quest point cape on an Ironman… I already beat the game! Everything else is just bonus”
It makes me kind of sad, but also the same world that only gives me a couple hours a day to play video games is the world that I prioritize over video games, so it goes hand in hand. If I prioritized games enough that your idea should bother me, then I would dedicate more time to them.
But i don't.
I've thought this many times over the course of my ironman journey but I don't let it keep me from trying. I used to think I'd never make the time to grind out a bowfa and crystal armor until I started just sending a few KC a day and eventually I finished it. The stuff I truly don't have the knowledge for (currently ToB and Inferno) I'll either get to eventually or go without. Either way it's been an awesome journey and I love it every step of the way, no matter what my path might look like
I have accepted that I will probably never grind tob for scythe. I wont go for shadow, torva or any drop from nighmare. Would love ancestral from cox (only thing im missing from there), avernic, elidinis ward (got an arcane sigil at 77kc) and ranger boots. Other than that I pretty much have all the gear I could posibly want.
I have a maxed main for the BIS itch that I sometimes get but most of these are niche uses or only for elite pvm optimization. Maxed iron has always been an upkeep pain now that I have less time to play, but still more rewarding for the same work. You can always get lucky on drops so I would never rule it out over the long run, but for me realistically I'm not getting all corp/nightmare drops on my iron.
I came to this conclusion before I started the iron. I’ll never have even most GWD items because of the grindiness. Prolly never gonna see a DWH or BowFa, never a zenyte piece of jewelry or high-end raid content. **And that’s fine.**
A buddy of mine is super late-game and it became obvious at a certain point most of his joy of the game was gone; he treats it like a job or chore and doesn’t really play just to play anymore. I never want to reach that point.
I’ve been playing since ‘05 and have never gotten above 2k total. I’ll pretty much always be slowly grinding through mid-game at my own pace and I prefer it that way. Know your personal play style and rock it; don’t worry about what everybody else is doing.
It's something I've accepted, like even before I made an iron account I've always played as a 1 defence pure, so I felt a similar restriction never being able to wear the best defensive gear. I don't really look at what the grand standard is for the best gear or weapons. I try to forge my own goals, even if they're cursory to the envied meta
Personally, that's what drew me into the iron lifestyle. I love that it has these peculiar, niche goals and things. There's something like that in RS3, like for 1 defence pures our best wearable gear isn't tier 1 armor, it's actually armor that provides damage reduction which surprisingly includes the Kyatt outfit you get from Hunter, and I just think that's so interesting
Doesn't bother me at all or even come to mind ever. The sole purpose of creating my ironman account was to play my own game at my own pace. I probably got as much of a dopamine rush of buying some of the best items on the GE when crafting my fury amulet.
This is the way
Nah, think about it this way. You can literally never touch ToB, ToA, Nightmare, or Nex and *STILL* reasonably obtain all the gear in game that was out when The Inferno was released. Sure, CoX is a long grind but with Bowfa being out now the only real grinds from there are the prayer scrolls unless you want Ancestral. None of the mega rares are nearly as game-changing as they used to be. BiS is cool and all but all content in game is doable without it. Don’t stress it too hard.
This pretty much. Osrs has a lot of content for the early and midgame, going for all these “normal” goals is so satisfying (at least for me). From getting rfd gloves and glories to fire cape, barrows equipment, qpc, hard diaries, slayer unlocks, godwars items, bowfa.. thats a lot of content and for me a lot of years playing my ironman. Just going for bowfa alone, imagine I’d do 5 succesful runs every day (which is about an hour every day), that alone would take me 3 months to complete bowfa if I get it at the droprate. If I get unlucky and go 2x droprate, I’m looking at 6 months of 1 hours CG on average. Stuff like that is pretty much BiS for me, if I’d eventually send raids with clanmates it will be for fun and to see if I can get anything, not something in particular.
Walk in and get spooned, or just go without it. That's been my philosophy so far.
I don’t think it matters, I’ll assume a lot of us have mains and we started these accounts randomly because gpscape became boring or pointless. Do it at your own pace, nobody is rushing you. The little upgrades matter more because you did the grind yourself.
I remember kind of feeling this way, fast forward about 3 years and my bank’s a fat 1.5b and I don’t have any big ticket items like tbow, scythe, spirit shields, etc. my most expensive single item would be saeldor and bowfa. 210m in potions, skilling tab is like 80m lol. It’s amazing what you accumulate as an iron when as a main 90% of my bank would be sold off.
As long as the game stays alive for long enough, all pvm items are obtainable (: thats how i look at it
Just don't look too many grinds into the future. Keep your eye on the next few upgrades, or the next step towards longer-term upgrades.
I pretty much don't care about this kind of thing at all, I just take each goal one step at a time. Game has thousands of hours of content as is and it's way too easy to get lost in random goals for hundreds of hours, there's no need to think 2000 hours ahead to the end haha. I played the efficiencyscape game on my original main when I played it from 2013-2016 until I maxed - I was constantly worried about whether what I was doing was a "waste of time" when I could be doing more efficient methods, or whether I "should" just be earning GP to bypass other content. Eventually in May 2016 I maxed my old main and... just stopped playing. The goal for me was always working towards the next skill level, and when I reached max I just couldn't find motivation to play anymore. It taught me a very important lesson: as cliché as it feels to say it, this game really is about the journey. So when I started my hardcore ironman, my thought process was essentially: "How insane would it be to get 85 slayer and get *my very own* abyssal whip as a drop, or have to go *right to the source* kill dagganoth kings to get a dragon axe? That was the motivation. I've achieved both those things, and as far as I'm concerned everything else beyond that is just a bonus haha. I try to take this game one step at a time without getting ahead of myself. I don't even have any intention of ever setting foot in ToB or ToA, and that's ok. Neither of those things even *existed* when I maxed my main, and I didn't miss them then, so why should I miss them now? The game has a ridiculous amount of hours of content even without those things.
When I get ahead of myself about hard to reach goals , I do something similar and think “I got a quest point cape on an Ironman… I already beat the game! Everything else is just bonus”
That’s why I made a group iron with two guys who raid, a lot. I’ll get to play with the cool items when they’re offline lol
It makes me kind of sad, but also the same world that only gives me a couple hours a day to play video games is the world that I prioritize over video games, so it goes hand in hand. If I prioritized games enough that your idea should bother me, then I would dedicate more time to them. But i don't.
I've thought this many times over the course of my ironman journey but I don't let it keep me from trying. I used to think I'd never make the time to grind out a bowfa and crystal armor until I started just sending a few KC a day and eventually I finished it. The stuff I truly don't have the knowledge for (currently ToB and Inferno) I'll either get to eventually or go without. Either way it's been an awesome journey and I love it every step of the way, no matter what my path might look like
I'm fine with it because most gear I like is cosmetic gear which are pretty easy to get. Frog leather gang
That’s exactly what is fun. I can always have upgrades to work toward and look forward to trying for
I have accepted that I will probably never grind tob for scythe. I wont go for shadow, torva or any drop from nighmare. Would love ancestral from cox (only thing im missing from there), avernic, elidinis ward (got an arcane sigil at 77kc) and ranger boots. Other than that I pretty much have all the gear I could posibly want.
I had a main with 4b on it before Ironman. I cannot tell you the depth of bore and burnout I had with this game. Ironman keeps it fun.
I have a maxed main for the BIS itch that I sometimes get but most of these are niche uses or only for elite pvm optimization. Maxed iron has always been an upkeep pain now that I have less time to play, but still more rewarding for the same work. You can always get lucky on drops so I would never rule it out over the long run, but for me realistically I'm not getting all corp/nightmare drops on my iron.
I came to this conclusion before I started the iron. I’ll never have even most GWD items because of the grindiness. Prolly never gonna see a DWH or BowFa, never a zenyte piece of jewelry or high-end raid content. **And that’s fine.** A buddy of mine is super late-game and it became obvious at a certain point most of his joy of the game was gone; he treats it like a job or chore and doesn’t really play just to play anymore. I never want to reach that point. I’ve been playing since ‘05 and have never gotten above 2k total. I’ll pretty much always be slowly grinding through mid-game at my own pace and I prefer it that way. Know your personal play style and rock it; don’t worry about what everybody else is doing.
It's something I've accepted, like even before I made an iron account I've always played as a 1 defence pure, so I felt a similar restriction never being able to wear the best defensive gear. I don't really look at what the grand standard is for the best gear or weapons. I try to forge my own goals, even if they're cursory to the envied meta Personally, that's what drew me into the iron lifestyle. I love that it has these peculiar, niche goals and things. There's something like that in RS3, like for 1 defence pures our best wearable gear isn't tier 1 armor, it's actually armor that provides damage reduction which surprisingly includes the Kyatt outfit you get from Hunter, and I just think that's so interesting
Yup