Post by Peter T.Post by Catriona RPost by Peter T.Catriona - I think you can answer this. :)
I've found www.wowironman.com for a guildie who herbs and does
archeology a lot. But the rules on this website are for 1-85 only. and
she asked; "what about pet battles?"
I answered "erhhh..." :)
The rules are a little out of date but it's just the same up to 90 :-)
As for pet battles, most of the community says no, but there isn't
sufficient agreement to actually add a rule, since some say dailies
are ok, some say catching rare pets that you find while questing is
ok, some say nothing is ok - I take the safe option and go with zero
pet battles since exp was added for them, but my main ironman did a
whole ton of them before the patch which added exp so I don't look as
clean as I might on that front, sigh.
If your friend is interested, tell her to sign up to
http://wowironmanchallenge.proboards.com/ with any questions - it's
where the most active ironman people are these days. Someone there is
starting a replacement website as the original tracker is a bit
outdated, this one also tracks a pacifist challenge some of us are
doing that might be just right for your friend, as herbing and arch
are both allowed in that variant (professions aren't allowed in the
main challenge): http://wowchallenges.com/ - rules are work in
progress among the few of us still active enough to discuss them lol,
but give it some time and it looks like being useful :-)
Thank you! Actually we are both interested. But as she also said it
seems to be impossible to level up to 5 without killing anything. She
was thinking about professions like herbing in this case. I told her it
was possible without knowing how.
It certainly is possible with professions, although earning the money
to train a profession is a little tougher... on alliance side there
are a few quests in Stormwind which help though, I found until I could
train herb/mining, running around all 4 starter zones plus doing as
many delivery quests as I could find, worked well. I'm trying to
remember if I had to be lvl 5 to learn professions or I was just
limited by money, not sure but I recall a couple of really painful
levels then it got much smoother!
Post by Peter T.This will be my first iromman char and I have decided to make the char
on a pvp realm. =)
Lol you're crazy, pve is very much recommended hehe. Good luck though!
:-) For regular ironman (including killing stuff), a good memory for
rare spawn locations and treasure chest spawns is very helpful I've
found, massive bonus exp for those, at least if you can find any with
CRZ (it's why I loved Earthen Ring pre-connection; it wasn't
cross-realmed at all so I usually had zones almost to myself)
If you decide to go with pve after your first ganking, Earthen
Ring/Darkmoon Faire has community chat channels for the challenge,
although I have a distinct feeling there's nobody actually in them at
present (I was usually alone a couple of months back and I've been
distracted from playing by other stuff lately, like moving house...) -
alliance = "darkiron" or "ironman" (both have been used over the
years), horde = "ironcurtain" if I remember rightly.