If you love crafting and Alchemy in particular, then Ironman can be very satisfying. The thing about ironman is that the game becomes largely about preparation and risk management. You must condition yourself to laugh at any death you may face. Work this into your brain so there is no grieving process or rage when it occurs. My advice is to go into the game thinking that yes, this character is eventually going to die, yes I am going to lose him/her eventually.

If I recall, there might be a youtuber or two who post requiem ironman videos. Now if you avoid the obvious leveling exploits and other nonsense it's harder, but it's more of a tedious 'do boring things to get strong enough to make other things trivial' kind of difficulty, not a real challenge. If you really want to get obnoxious raise go raise a Thalmor Justiciar, Hagraven and one of those falmer mages and watch as they rampage across the country side.īeating Alduin is still a challenge, things like that, but the rest of the game. Of course then you can easily drop giant camps and work on Alchemy which also makes training anything else (heavy armor, archery, destruction, whatever) trivial with the massive amount of septims it brings in. That kind of nonsense makes the game rather trivial: walking around with 600 Armor, 65% MR, 3x Storm Atronach and a Spectral Arrow that will one-hit damn near anything your level. Then go hit up Silent Moon Camp and jump into the area with a locked gate and spam Mage Armor for a while. You could also turn on Blur and go sleep and go to work while standing in Whiterun and come back to a very leveled Illusion. The real question is, what other rules are there? You can walk out of Helgen, Soul Trap the dead giant for a few hours and then have 3x Storm Atronach or 3x undead thrall with a Bound Bow and plenty of magicka. You'd have to know the world of Requiem pretty well, there's plenty of places where you can walk into a room and find yourself one-shot without warning. If you reload after a glitch or CTD then sure, it's possible.

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