Permadeath Challenge!

[Jerec Tharen 0]

Hello! Are you looking to level a new character? Are you interested in doing it with other players? Are you looking for a challenge? If so, you should try the Permadeath Challenge! Basic rules are not to die. You would be in charge of keeping track of that yourself, and deciding exactly what constitutes a death that counts. I myself am not counting PvP deaths. Let me know if you are interested and I'll send you the discord link. I was doing this challenge with another person, but he hasn't responded to my messages for a few weeks. I had a level 15 Undead Priest that complemented his Warrior perfectly. With this new start we can level Horde up to where I am currently and I can take over again with my priest, or we can do Alliance and I'll just start fresh! Let me know what faction, race, and class you're interested in!

[Oakenlix 79]

Well... I guess for some people it might make the game more interesting.

But to me this challenge would mean taking zero risks - aka absolute shit gameplay.

[MysticTxe 0]

I would imagine this challenge would mostly involve grinding mobs one level above grey in low density areas to minimize risk. In any populated quest area all it would take is one unlucky pull or respawn to end your challenge. You would never run dungeons or try any elite quests. You could level to 60 this way but it would take forever.

[foos 0]

I like doing challenges like these a lot.  I always do stuff like this on single player games.  I always played HC on diablo 2 and that was very exciting.  I don't think wow would be as suitable for this than other games tho.  I think wow is designed around too much of a lightweight death penalty and as a result things like potions are helpful, but not as much as they would be if the game was originally designed to be more challenging.

For example, limited invulnerability potions give you a small window of escape, but I imagine if wow was more challenging out of the box, then limited invulnerability potions would be more effective, harder and more costly to make, could be used more often, and not cause a cooldown on other potions.

I love challenging games though, but there aren't very many and I often intentionally gimp myself to create my own challenges.

I think it would be cool though if you got a group of people together all playing permadeath, with no twinking etc.  That would be fun.  You would really have to prepare for dungeons etc and everyone would be more cautious rather than facerolling a dungeon in 5 minutes.

[Trollhater1928 0]

Isn't this challenge like the iron man challenge or am I missing something?

 

BTW, I'd do the challenge with you, but my social anxiety is ruling my young life now.

[Jerec Tharen 0]

On 10/5/2017 at 0:29 PM, foos said:

I think it would be cool though if you got a group of people together all playing permadeath, with no twinking etc.  That would be fun.  You would really have to prepare for dungeons etc and everyone would be more cautious rather than facerolling a dungeon in 5 minutes.

That is something I would love to do! I have this idea of having two separate raid groups (or just groups of 5) on each faction that play at the same set times. If you die to a participating player from the other faction or from PvE your character is "out" of the challenge. That way it would give incentive to players to stick together, provide a more in depth challenge, and you could easily keep track of it from screenshots and like an excel sheet that everyone could see.

The problem is getting enough people to participate, which is why I was trying to build up a dedicated player base by bringing in people one or two at a time to play with me. Once I have enough people dedicated to playing like this, I can start to organize it.

[Jerec Tharen 0]

7 hours ago, Trollhater1928 said:

Isn't this challenge like the iron man challenge or am I missing something?

 

BTW, I'd do the challenge with you, but my social anxiety is ruling my young life now.

I'd love to do this with you! And you know that saying, sometimes it's best just to get thrown into the deep end of the pool. To start with it would probably be just you and me if you wanted to participate. It's almost exactly like the iron man challenge, except that since Vanilla is more difficult than Live there would be no gear or item restrictions, and you can do dungeons (but if you die, you fail the challenge).

[Jerec Tharen 0]

On 10/5/2017 at 0:34 AM, Oakenlix said:

Well... I guess for some people it might make the game more interesting.

But to me this challenge would mean taking zero risks - aka absolute shit gameplay.

This challenge is all about taking risks! It's about doing your best to no die and giving yourself a consequence you can live with if you do. I tried not to put in words like "deleting your character if you die," because some people can be squeamish with that idea, but that's certainly what I'll be doing with my characters.

[Oakenlix 79]

9 minutes ago, Jerec Tharen said:

This challenge is all about taking risks! It's about doing your best to no die and giving yourself a consequence you can live with if you do. I tried not to put in words like "deleting your character if you die," because some people can be squeamish with that idea, but that's certainly what I'll be doing with my characters.

The problem I have with this challenge is that the most effective way to complete it is also the most boring gameplay imaginable. But hey, to each his own, just not my thing I guess.