Posts by Adinay

LDOA isn’t as bad as you may think. Though 16 to 17 is quite painful if you don’t save all quests to turn in while level 16, but I’ve done without quests it is doable it’s just by far the worst level.

There are guides that help you be efficient.

We now have a discord for all Ironman players. I know some people have ties to their current guild but also play one character on the account that is Ironman. This discord is a great place to talk all things Ironman and share your journey even if you are not in the in game guild, though we’d love to have you in both!

PredatorNoa Our discord is not exclusive to the guild, the only requirement is Iron. https://discord.gg/FKjqEyXdAj

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NM or HM? Which Build / Team-Setup did you play?

Hard Mode. Standard Mesmer Meta Hero build with the warrior build I've shared on this thread.

Baklawa No greens unfortunately. I did not flag heroes away when killing bosses though so chances are pretty low like that.

HM Iron Forgeman Down! Now we start EOTN.

Love it! Enjoy the journey, don’t rush it. My Iron Warrior is somewhere around 1.5years and over 600 hours and I’m still not done GWAMM.

Let us know if you’d like any help or grouping.

We do have an iron guild and discord that is open to anyone that’s iron, in guild or not.

I enjoyed following your warriors journey looking forward to this one. There’s nothing like a fresh account fresh start. I have another fresh account I’ve been thinking about doing the same. Any specific rules on this one or pretty typical Ironman?

It never felt so good to reach Surmia. And the LONG caravan is over! As are my titles in all main campaigns. All I have left for GWAMM is EOTN.

I was only able to clear up to the shiverpeaks with 7 heros, and then I took 5 from Yaks to Surmia. It took 3 runs Yaks to Surmia due to afk + disconnect. I found it more than worth it to run back to where I left off than to try to do anything with 3 heros. I don't ever want to have to do that again...

I also got my second superior Vigor, 6 more to go!

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Thanks. I'm still considering whether I want to join an active guild. There are things I'd like to do (like Urgoz/Deep/DoA HM) that I either can't do alone or that will take a lot more time alone than with other players. On the other hand I don't want to be in a place where other people expect/"force" me to play a specific schedule. I was in a WoW progress guild 2004/5 and while that was fun, I'll never comit to that playstyle again. I bought a fresh 2nd account with the sale as well, I use it to "store" my own Urgoz ferry, donate additional heroes to my Urgoz-runs and an elemenatlist and assassin to quickly run my toons from the main account through Imperial Sanctum, Ruins of Morah and A time for Heroes when those Zaishen missons are up. (I still need lot of Zaishen Coins for bag upgrades, they didn't exist yet when I left). That 2nd account could save guild leadership of my old guild. I also use my own guild to freely switch between Kurzick and Luxon if I want to dump faction.

If you're looking for something in-between in terms of playthrough with people but less of a commitment on specific times, I think there are plenty of guilds that do this. Additionally, there are a handful of people still doing Ironman playthroughs. This is usually done solo (with henchman/heros) but we often group up too and have a discord with 6 of us in it atm. I just recently did FoW HM and working on Sorrows Furnace HM next for example. If this interests you let me know and/or check out the iron-man challenges section of the forums to learn more.

We need some dramatic screenshots of these deaths... lol

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You make me wanna go active on Ironman again !!!❤️

Do it! After that caravan all I have left is EOTN for GWAMM on this warrior, so I’ll be starting another one soon and would love to do some of the progress with others. Possibly Dervish.

Rotscale HM was good to me

He dropped nothing, rather, the chest behind him happened to be good.

Also wrapped up VQing the last 4 zones of Maguuma

Just the one giant caravan across the mountains to Ascalon to go.

Fairly annoying little 5 hero caravan out of Henge of Denravi to The Falls, but at least now my 7 hero caravan from Temple of the Ages does not have to go as far.

EDIT for more complete update:

Prophecies HM missions done.

Southern Shiverpeaks VQ done.

Got a Sword Pommel of the Paragon and put it on my Shadow Blade. I have to say I love how it fits into my shout heavy build, energy is never an issue anymore even vs energy draining mobs. I can always pop all 3 of my energy skills on CD which is more DPS, better adrenaline gain, and therefor higher "Save Yourselves!" uptime. This MIGHT be better than the assassin or necromancer weapon mods for my specific build, but I will look to try those when I find them.

Next Goals:

1. Sorrows Furnace HM Clear all quests
2. Remaining Tyria VQs all of which will be caravans out of Temple of the Ages
3. Accumulate a bit more SPs and Platinum to purchase ALL remaining normal skills for all professions
4. Then all things EOTN which will finish GWAMM

Welcome to the guild! I usually don't use capes but I have been using ours... Baklawa did create a sweet cape Here is our discord. https://discord.gg/FKjqEyXdAj

In terms of traders, storage, and platinum. I definitely appreciate that I made a fresh account and was able to use storage on my first playthrough, which is my warrior that has a journal on here. For my second playthrough I put my warrior on pause and moved all my materials into her bag and I have two complete rows of bank slots so the bottom one is the warrior and the top is the ranger. I do not think I would enjoy having to keep everything in my bags as much, but understand why some people go this way when they have non-iron characters on the account. If you use no traders, you do hit 100 platinum pretty quickly. My Ranger has done a lot of farming (LDOA and farmed weapons in North Kryta Province) and the only thing keeping her from hitting 100k is refilling on lockpicks, salvage kits, and ID kits. If I was not lockpicking all chests, I'd already be over 100... so it IS a problem. You can offset this further later on in your journey by collecting all skills in the game, paying vendor for sweet tooth & drunkard titles, etc.

A few of us have an ironman discord channel if you want to join even if just to chat there. You can also playthrough with us if you'd like (looks like we have the same rules other than delete on death and we just started in proph). There's 3 of us right now (Warrior, Ranger, Mesemer) and we were thinking about seeing if we could beat normal without heroes or hench and then add heroes for HM, but we might need a 4th for that at our game knowledge and skill level.

We are finding that limiting total amount in group (no hench taking up slots) coincides very well with relying on drops for weapons. We've been solo farming drops for each other as we progress.

Either way... have fun and welcome to the forums and back to the game!

I knew I must have been missing something. I didn't know about doing it this way. Been slowly finding staff mods to keep improving.

They come 20/20 though, am I missing something or are the mods needed to make them 40/40 drop only?

I think the best I have is one hero with 40/39. Some of them are 39/20 with an HP or armor mod.

Dang I'm still missing a lot of 40/40. Well done.

I've made a discord server to help people find others or simply communicate about ironman play. I kicked off the server with just 3 of us who needed a space to communicate as we prepare for a playthrough together, but anyone doing Ironman or similar is welcome to join. If you'd like to join the discord, let me know. My discord handle is Adinay#5209

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I need better weapons for my heroes. Hopefully i get some good drops. Otherwise I will buy/craft the blue weapons from Faction?

That's what I started with was blue faction ones. Just be careful not to put more than 1 perfect mod on them unless you want to invest in perfect salvage kits or you risk not being able to get all the perfect mods back off and onto the skin you want. This is actually why I farmed for staff skins for so long after I finished the 3 main storylines before even doing HM stuff... so I could get the staff skins I wanted to add mods to. For me it took forever because the skins I wanted were DoA staff skins. You can probably find something you like that is easier to get or if you don't care about the skin at all then yes factions is fine.

One big 7 hero caravan through the desert from the portal in Elona

Quite a bit left to go though.

Small fashion update - new shield and upgraded sword mods, though I still need a better shadow blade base. Also Finally found boots that look better with Elite Gladiator set.

Now returning to the HM Tyrian Vanquish and Guardian grind which will put me to 25/30 titles, only needing EOTN rep for 30/30.

May farm a better shadow blade at some point when I need another break from the title grind.

You can join our iron guild if you'd like. I'm probably the most active and I plan on having a few characters and would love to do an iron playthrough with someone.

Another long run out of the way. Going to try to do one of these every day or so while incorporating the Zaishen vanquishes. Once I get 3 in my quest log in the northern shiverpeaks / ascalon area I'll do that long run.

Cantha Zanquishing done, now just Tyria left. Started with a little caravan to the S/W out of TotA.

He's faster than me and I'm using heroes lol

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Adinay people who do these challenges are usually good or at least decent at the game, and I'm looking for the henchmen difficulty. Now, whilest some people have the same AI as henchmen, I doubt I could find 7 such people.

What I was thinking about is using my main account, assembling 6 heroes with the TotA henchmen builds+this iron boy, then leaving on the main, leaving my main account with what are essentially less dumb versions of the TotA henchmen.

Luckily I'm about 118 ectos and shards away from making a decision, in the meantime...

Interesting solution. I respect the difficulty level. I couldn't do it. Also, lots of great drops you've been getting. congrats on the fds.

You might be able to get enough of us to go with you unless you don't allow iron players in group either.

Tormented staff DoA farm is finally done for heros to all match

That was a pain but it taught me more about the game than any other end game area so far, and I never even attempted on HM.

Still need some more BIS mods, not quite perfect yet but getting there.

Next up; Factions & Prophecies Vanquishing and HM missions which will put me to 25 titles. Still have not started EOTN or GW Beyond.

Side projects; Urgoz clear, Kurzick Faction, Zaishen Challenges. I have my sights set on the Envoy sword. Undecided on shield skin.

Annnd one more update. My first FoW HM clear. It actually was not bad at all after doing nm DOA so much, learning to pull and flag better. Just takes some time.

Finally got 100 points Amatz Basin done. In doing so, learned how to more effectively farm kurzick there. Will come back to it perhaps after all vanquishing is done and books turned in if I want to increase the title more. Will definately farm it hard next bonus week. Now onto hm missions & vanquishing. Also still farming nm DOA on the side for tormented staves for heros. Will prob knock out Urgoz too for the first time.

NF Vanquishing, Spearmarshal & Lightbringer done. FINALLY a change of scenery. I don't plan on coming back to NF for anything other than maybe to farm some Tormented weapons. Setting sail to Cantha to do HM missions, Vanquishing, and get from rank 4 -> 5 Kurzick.

Still planning on saving HM on my favorite continent for last; core Tyria and then EOTN.

I need to take the time to learn how all the Zaishen challenges and rewards work, I feel like I should be doing those. Open to suggestions - this is my first character back to the game in 15 years.

May take a break before next title update to farm some better skins and/or min-max heros too, although they are pretty well geared at this point just by popping every chest along the way.

Here's the build I've been using for basically all of HM.

Making quick work of this project! Is "Tyria only" EOTN also?

Ok let me know if you need help you are welcome to friend me in game too. IGN: Iron Adinay

It may take me a few attempts to relearn it but with heros it shouldn't be nearly as hard (if you're willing to allow another iron man players heros in group)

Decided to do HM missions and vanquish each campaign and decided to do Nightfall first so I can also finish sunspear and lightbringer titles, then Cantha & Tyria HM Missions & vanquish before moving into EOTN for everything that remains for GWAMM.

Finished Nightfall HM Missions and vanquished Desolation first. Missions were surprisingly not bad for my first time in hard mode. Alkali Pan was tough though and glad to be done with wurm form zones.

I feel like I'm on track to finish both reputation titles before all zones are vanquished, so that will be nice to have no additional grind there.

Considering switching from sword and board to scythe. I've been sword and board since the beginning though but have been getting some nice sythe drops tempting me!

Did you ever get eternal grove done? I'm sure one of us could help if needed.

Love the new armor combo

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Just beat factions (Kurzick side). By FAR the biggest hurdle was mastery of Eternal Grove.

How did you got it done with Henchies? Only tried it one time yet but failed the mission pretty hard because I couldn't save all Trees.

There’s a few YouTube videos out there. It took me trying a few different strategies and IIRC 10+ attempts. Some of it is actually luck, and a lot of it is practice and timing. Having the ideal henchman lineup helps too. Search YouTube and watch what they do and who they use. I did it on warrior which might be worse because of all the running you do back and forth.

Pretty happy with this update

I now have 100% of map, missions, quests, elite skills for Prophecies, Factions, and Nightfall. This puts me to 15 titles, have not stepped foot into EOTN yet. This marks the point where I have gotten further than ever before back in the early 2000s when I used to play, so everything from here is going to feel new.

Next up:

Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall HM missions

I also need to farm 1 more level of Kurzick for max "save yourselves" when its double reward week. Open to suggestions on what is most efficient, still trying different things to figure that out. Is faction pvp even possible? I've been doing Altrumm Ruins.