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Article #346401Re: Ironman: Completed! :)
From: Cryptoengineer
Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 21:42
Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 21:42
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On May 1, 3:05 pm, Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote: > For anyone who remembers the ironman challenge (lvl using no gear with > stats, no buffs, no grouping, and most importantly, no deaths), I have > just dinged 85! :-D > > http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/earthen-ring/Iarnaigvi/advanced > > http://wowironman.com/hasn't updated me yet, but it shows I have > indeed kept within the ruls, and somehow I'm the first warlock and > only the 6th 85 in total. Surprised me tbh, since it didn't feel that > hard to me; the real challenge was keeping a high level of vigilance, > not aggroing adds, being very cautious on tough mobs, etc. > > I did have an "easy" class though, the difference between my warlock > and the rogue I had before was enormous; biggest challenges I had with > mobs was moving up into new expansion content, since mobs hit hard if > you don't outlvl them. Cataclysm mobs are horrendous when you're in > greys, I struggled with them at lvl 83, no way anyone would get far at > lower lvl than that (and some classes will never be able to do them > IMO, it takes a pet or excellent kiting/rooting skills to beat these > mobs) > > So, challenge complete, wondering what to do with my time now! MoP > beta calls, I think... then Diablo 3 in 2 weeks :-) Very impressed. I got to 60 on a warrior worgen before stupidly getting pvp flagged; but my toon had every bit of heirloom gear he could wear, the best BoEs gold could buy, and a max level guild (thus about 45+ xp bonus). This was before the ironman challenge was created. pt
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Received: by 10.68.130.100 with SMTP id od4mr4298100pbb.2.1335908943543; Tue, 01 May 2012 14:49:03 -0700 (PDT) Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!r9ni121065pbh.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!i18g2000vbx.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Cryptoengineer <pete...@gmail.com> Newsgroups: alt.games.warcraft Subject: Re: Ironman: Completed! :) Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 14:42:34 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 34 Message-ID: <79e999ec-571b-4fc2-8c7c-44647df9022e@i18g2000vbx.googlegroups.com> References: <a0aqg8F5hhU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 149.32.192.35 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1335908943 30970 127.0.0.1 (1 May 2012 21:49:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups...@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 21:49:03 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups...@google.com Injection-Info: i18g2000vbx.googlegroups.com; posting-host=149.32.192.35; posting-account=BUItcQoAAACgV97n05UTyfLcl1Rd4W33 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0,gzip(gfe) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit