World of Warcraft → [Race to 90] The DSLR Ironman Challenger - Reloaded

RULES:
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 combating-enhancing addons (QuestHelper/Auctioneer/etc. are fine, use your own judgement)
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.

The Iron Challenger is free to use the Auction House to make money and buy the occasional White or Gray item. This is allowed. You may even create a banker/auctioneer, provided they only store/post items that the Iron Challenger has earned. However, you may not receive either gold or items from your other characters. It is recommended that you reroll the Iron Challenger on a new server to avoid the temptation.

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Post your server and setup experience.

And we will add it here for tracking:

»wowironman.com/

I would guess it would be safe to use a separate installation of WoW for this.

What addons should be safe to use?

I woud say for the bare minimum:

SpartanUI or pure Bartender for bar setup.
Auctioneer

How do you know if someone dies?

Armory shows death stats. Actually it shows nearly everything regarding deaths, kills, etc.

I would say the better classes for this would be hunter or warlock because of the pets that can tank.

I think I will go with Warlock for my first try.

Now to pick a server - faction.

*as an outsider* (I won't be participating)

I would say either allow all addon's or none. They only enhance gameplay, don't make it 'easier'.

I agree with you JB at the end the addons are on how the player wants to live her/his "hardcore" experience and there is no way to verify the usage.

So we will that open to players to decide what they want to do.

I will do a separate WoW installation for this so I can control it better.

Player List
Jobbie
Class: Warlock
Faction: Alliance
Server: TBD
Name: TBD

I am bored with all games right now, but I may try this.

You could even go one step further and play it on the opposite faction you are used to. I have never had a horde character, I may roll horde.

Sounds good to me I think ill go alliance then, post your toon details so we can follow up. I will post mine tonight.

sounds kind of fun.

rogue might be good as well tho not for me b/c thats my main

found a ironman tracker that might be helpfull
»wowironman.com/

Thanks for this. Added it to the topic.

Everyone feel free to post screenshots or how is your progress going.

I will keep track on who is playing what and where.

I'm going to go on my max level toon, hunt down and gank all of you.

Better get used to grinding boars.

/THREAD

Here's what I learned after NUMEROUS deaths, and then finally getting to 32 in one piece

Yes, hunters are the majority that have survived, and made it to the end; however, there was a warlock and a mage that made it as well. As a hunter, I ended up using a bear, after good advise from others here on the boards. Tough tank the bear. You are allowed to raise your dead pet, which I did a couple times; if you are more interested in the role-playing aspect, you may bury your dead companion and go seek a new one.

After a rough start, you will see the gold come in from quests, I did not bother with the auction house - just not worth it, repairs were minimal.

There are sites out there that will list what vendors in what town will have better gear you can buy that is NOT green/blue, try to upgrade when you can.

Being on the Wyrmrest server, people there were used to seeing others on the challenge - some may question you as to what you are doing, or try to invite you to their guilds - I just had to block guild invites, spent too much time trying to explain to others why I was not interested in joining their guild. I also got a lot of "good luck" whispers

The biggest key here is - slooooowwwww and steady. There are already people who have made this happen, you will not be first, or second, or even tenth, so no rush. Pick your fights well, be aware of what is around you, watch out for swarms.
"He who runs away, lives to fight another day"

PvE server.

/UNTHREAD

Thanks excellent advice Rhenai. Sounds a lot of fun.

FFS...

real ironman should be on PvP server!

that'll put some hair on your chest!

I have hair on my chest already no need for more.

This is FeRhayne - wish the armory app included FeUrsaMajor - her bear pet

Moonguard server?

Can be any server really, I am thinking going down the list and just pick the lowest pop server I can find, which is really the same because of the damn CRZ.

So not sure yet.

you should stipulate no mounts... that would be interesting

I chose Wyrmrest Accord, because the majority of the other challengers were there, so I figured the population would be more aware of the challenge, and hopefully a little more respectful.

Jobbie, I'll try to remember my battle.net tag thingy and send to you, I'm getting the fever to try this again - thank you!

No mounts, no sprinting. Must only walk!!!

JB I agree here, I totally shut all mine (addons) down, just for simplicity.

LOL!

All mounts, bags, and non-combat pets are allowed.

As long as you buy them with your hard earned silver.

»wowironman.com/rules

RP walk everywhere.

And I thought of something else - when this first came out last year - this go-round, anyway, there have been a couple versions/races prior to this, the goal was getting to 85

With the new expansion, and the ability to get to 90, I wonder if a new official Ironman Challenge will be initiated?