Ironman Warlock

So the latest craze in the World of Warcraft has been to play game in “Ironman” mode. Here is the list of the rules:

The Ironman Challenge

"Some people complain WoW is too easy. Well, for people who want a challenge, take part in the Iron Man Challenge! I came across a thread from someone named Sandinhiseye about this, and it was fairly old. So, rather than necro it, I'm making a new thread. Taken from his thread, here are the rules:"

1) No items equipped other than White or Gray items.
2) No heirlooms
3) No talent points - no specialization - you may train class abilities
4) No professions, primary or secondary, other than First Aid.
5) No food or water above vendor-quality white items.
6) No groups- no BG's, no instances, no raids, no quest groups. No guilds.
7) No enchants, scrolls, potions/elixirs, or glyphs.
8) No outside financial or equipment assistance (no gold or bags from other toons)
9) THE BIG ONE - if you die, ever, you delete that toon and start over at lvl 1 Any takers? If you're doing it, post on that character and we will track your progress.

An interesting challenge and I figured I would take a shot and see how far I could get. I rolled a warlock on the Staghelm server (A normal low population server) as I didn’t want to have to worry about other people nor getting ganked and ruining my fun. I rolled an orc warlock.

So in the first night (about 2 hours) I was able to get me warlock up to level 10. There were a few scares when I thought it was a good idea to try and kill some rare mobs. But I did make it through without dying. I think the real challenge is ahead of me as I start to get more into the zones which are designed around having a few greens on your character. But I will take it slow and interestingly enough it gives me a chance to see the new leveling quest lines for Cataclysm, as I have not done that before.

On a side note, Immolate and Corruption are completely a waste of a global at this level. It just seems better to spam cast shadow bolt. It does not give me high hope for the Malady spell when Mists of Pandaria hits. Even with full whites on, most mobs would die with 3-4 shadow bolts. My “rotation” seemed to go better when I pulled with shadow bolt. Doing this allowed me to cast about 3 shadow bolts before the mob got to me. This reduce the amount of time that I had the mob beating on me. Now as I get to level 10 I am finding more uses for Corruption and Immolate since I can have my voidwalker tank. When Mists of Pandaria hits this is probably one of the comments I’ll leave when doing the beta.