I recently deironed my late game Ironman after about five years. It was my first and only account, and I have no interest in making a second one. I always heard “don’t deiron, you’ll regret it,” but honestly I feel the exact opposite. I loved Ironman and still think it is probably the best way to start OSRS. It made me experience almost the entire game instead of skipping content and buying upgrades. But eventually the thing that made OSRS feel huge started making it feel smaller. I do not have nearly as much time to play anymore, and some of my last grinds like treads and Oathplate pieces took months of my available playtime. Endgame Ironman started feeling like a small number of extremely long grinds instead of this massive game full of things I could do. Gnomemonkey’s recent video was what finally made me seriously consider that Ironman might have been perfect for the first five years of my account without needing to be how I play forever. Yes, I know I could just do whatever content I wanted as an iron. The problem is my brain hates feeling inefficient. I put off Vardorvis for months because I was missing one Oathplate piece and felt like I should finish that first. During clan bingo I would sometimes feel bad grinding a tile where I already had the useful drops because there was always something else my account technically needed more. That is completely a me problem, but deironing fixed it instantly. Now if I want a Shadow, I can do ToA, Nex, Vardorvis, raid with friends, chase pets, do bingo, or basically anything else profitable. Every decent drop inches me closer to the same goal. Drops have not lost their excitement at all. A big drop is still account progression, except now it can eventually become any upgrade in the game. Group content is also much better because I genuinely do not care who gets the drop. We all get a split. This was not about supply upkeep either. That had not bothered me since early or mid game. It was about having less free time and realizing I did not want to spend huge portions of it waiting for one exact item from one exact place. Liquidating five years of bank progress and rebuilding the account exactly how I wanted was one of the most fun things I have done in OSRS in a while. I think Ironman gave me exactly what I wanted from it. I experienced early, mid, and late game properly and learned content I probably would have skipped on a main. I just reached a point where removing the restriction made the game feel more open again. None of us know how many more years we will have the time to play OSRS, or even what the game will look like years from now. I would rather play my favorite game however I find fun while I can. If you are thinking about deironing and the only thing stopping you is people telling you that you are guaranteed to regret it, just know that definitely is not true for everyone. submitted by /u/Timmssmith
Originally posted by u/Timmssmith on r/2007scape