I saw this and had to give it a go!

Rules:

• Only White or Grey gear. No Heirlooms of any kind.
• No transfer of gear, items, or money from any other character (yours or others).
• No gear enhancements, including gems, enchanting, and reforging. Class abilities are allowed (eg. Rogue poisons, Shaman imbues).
• No specialization, talent points, or glyphs. No pet talent points.
• No professions or secondary skills, except for First Aid.
• No potions, flasks, or elixirs except for required quest items.
• No food buffs or other external buffs (including buffs from items and other players).
• No groups or assistance from other characters, even if not grouped.
• No dungeons, raids, battlegrounds, or arenas.
• No guilds
• No Refer-A-Friend.
• No addons which assist in combat and/or leveling (eg. leveling guides, Ovale).
• THE BIG ONE: No deaths. Character death for any reason disqualifies the character

• All class abilities, racials, and personal buffs.
• All mounts, bags, and non-combat pets.
• All quests, including holiday events and dailies (unless prohibited by some other rule, eg. Fishing and Cooking dailies).

Links:

Official Forums: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/3966606644

Unofficial Tracking Page: http://www.wowironman.com/

This just makes the game slower, not harder!

Originally posted by wartyxwt

This just makes the game slower, not harder!

did you miss the part where if you die you have to delete and start over? 

On my first attempt I bit the dust at level 6 because I got three of the Fargodeep Kobolds on me and I took a wrong turn and got cornered. :P

Nice idea. Sad that I dont play this game anymore.

I would resub, if:

Blizzard would make this idea official, like with a special achievement or title

and give the grey gear and overhaul on its looks. For example a rusty, veteran-like look. That you dont run around like the last piece of sh..izzo

Originally posted by Thane
must have missed one point, how are those rules being enforced? you just trust wow players not to cheat on you? :P gl with that

The armory shows if a person dies or not.  You can also check gear at any time past level 10.  Of course, the honor system is in place.  Since it's not for money or anything, cheaters are only robbing themselves anyway.  All of this is covered in the FAQ on the websites.

That's still not hard though is it, you just went to the wrong place. The game is far too binary for this. After loosing a few chars you'll just end up picking safe mobs and working to reduce RNG. I love WoW don't take this the wrong way, I am subbed right now but very few parts are 'hard' during the entire game, there is hardly anything that is actually a case of outskilling, out maneuvering etc.

Originally posted by wartyxwt

That's still not hard though is it, 

It can be LOL. Just an opinion, saw this stuff on the forums and thought I'd share it here.  I'm not running it or anything :P It's just a fun thing for interested folks to do, that's all.  It's not a contest with any big reward or anything like that.

Love the idea of playing a standard game with different ruleset. Considering that most random dungeons often wipe, I wouldn't even try one.

Originally posted by wartyxwt

This just makes the game slower, not harder!

I would think only being able to use the classes base abilities would make it much harder since without using talent points you can't get most of the classes normal main abilities.

it is a very good idea but unless blizzard make this na achievement of some kind i dont see how it is gona happen without cheating!

Originally posted by wartyxwt

This just makes the game slower, not harder!

This just isn't true.  Of course leveling is easy if you equip green, blues and heirloom gear because you're overpowered for the content.

Once you get high enough level, you either play super safe like people did in MMO's of old (i.e. killing mobs that are green to you) or you increase your risk of dying by a large amount.

Normally, when you get hit by something, you just keep attacking the mob. But with whites and greys, you don't have the health pool to soak the damage. You now have to play smart.  Interrupting, kiting, using all manner of cooldowns and escaping when you pull extra mobs.

If a new MMO was announced with this ruleset and difficulty, it would be called "Dark Souls MMO" and people would be hyping it like crazy. But because it's WoW, people want to write it off.  There are levels at which, even with a previous expansions raid gear (gemmed and enchanted) you have to eat/drink after one or two mobs.  I'm just trying to think how a white geared player would be able to cope with the incoming damage while having such low damage output.

Originally posted by drbaltazar

it is a very good idea but unless blizzard make this na achievement of some kind i dont see how it is gona happen without cheating!

There is no incentive to cheat.

If blizz were to add an achieve or reward, then you would provide a motivation for cheating. But as it stands, it's a community event in which people participate for fun.

I have been screaming for new, exciting things to do in this game, and now my prayers have been answered.  

I've leveled 8 characters from 1 to 85, but now I get the excitement of leveling another character from 1 to 85.

Will the fun ever end? I don't think so.

I like this Iron Man idea. Perhaps I'll make myself a character to see how far I'll get ;)

But one thing I can't live with... Only white/grey gear..? IMO this rule should be that you're only allowed to buy the gear you get dropped and/or can buy from NPC's, and since there's no BG or instances, the chances of getting rare stuff is close to zero. Also no AH to buy anything at all!

Also a small note on the add-ons... Kinda hard to check this...

[EDIT]

Made a Blood-Elf Priest myself on Hellbound (EU) named IronMaid (IronMaiden and IronLady were taken already :s)

Originally posted by Crepitus

Love the idea of playing a standard game with different ruleset. Considering that most random dungeons often wipe, I wouldn't even try one.

No dungeons in the Ironman challenge. Solo only. 

Not like hunter bots didn't do this 1-60 back in Vanilla /yawn

It should remove use of flight paths and use of mounts.  Add in mandatory flagging.  That would push it to hardcore. :-)