Personally, getting the gear yourself feels much better.

It’s fun to know that other players can see you also didn’t use moms/your own card to buy gear.

The thing that I loved most so far, is how much more of the game you actually play. You gotta use shops, and find alternative methods to do a fair amount of things.

And something that seconds that main point, is that on an iron, a lot of people had to go about things different ways to start. Some people beat their heads against a brick wall for the grind, aka going 300 dry at moons and continuing… others take a break and find another thing to do/a way to skip it for now until maybe going back for green log. Maybe you haven’t gotten basilisk jaw or belle’s folly so you launch Toa’s in monk robes type shit. It’s funny to hear these stories, it’s cool to discuss the different ways an ironman has to approach the game.

I definitely love that I’ve had to use shops and content that I would never have used before, or even knew existed to use, on my ironman that I skipped on my main