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Posts: 982
Registered: 2005-10-18 12:53:17
Blizzard posted:

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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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Zero_Washu  2 stars
Posts: 290
Registered: 2001-9-28 05:17:03
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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NukeMage  2 stars
Posts: 346
Registered: 2002-4-7 16:58:45
Challenging =/= tedious and time consuming.

 

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Conceited  1 star
Posts: 182
Registered: 2002-1-29 07:38:03
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
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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GrimTempest  3 stars
Title: Board Manager
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Posts: 977
Registered: 2001-12-21 01:36:49
in short the game is so stupid easy people are bending over backwards trying to find a challenge.

 

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Spookysheep  4 stars
Title: Lieker of Cheese
Posts: 1,248
Registered: 2002-1-9 06:49:19
This may seriously top all of the pathetic things I've ever seen in the MMO gaming world.

 

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Dums  1 star
Title: Moderator
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Posts: 248
Registered: 2002-10-29 08:17:13
Once these people hit Cata zones they're all gonna go splat.

 

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Elmador_MoK  1 star
Title: Voice of Mostly-Reason
Posts: 166
Registered: 2002-6-26 14:35:20
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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Conceited  1 star
Posts: 182
Registered: 2002-1-29 07:38:03
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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Spookysheep  4 stars
Title: Lieker of Cheese
Posts: 1,248
Registered: 2002-1-9 06:49:19
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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