2 days 16 hours played since DMM release SOLO - It isn't enough!
I set out at the start of DMM to try to see how far I could go without clanning, accepting donations or swapping gp.
I am not saying the time spent was not fun, I had some good escapes, interesting drops and did some questing/pvm.
What I could not do though, was compete in pvp in any way.
Do not get me wrong, I can pk, I could probably stand my own easily with the same gear and stats . I am also not discouraghed or rage quit because of deaths, its part of the mode and I rebuilt multiple times over the DMM so far.
2 days 16 hours in 6 days realtime is just far far too low to have had a hope to compete solo. I did everything as efficiently as I could, I have a 2.1k total ironman and know my way around the game starting out, I also had a mule I was constantly flipping on (3m bank, flipped from 100kish start)
And the mode is snowbally, I can't ever catch up to the people now busy grinding raids and GWD, when I finally catch up with 94 mage 99 str, no one is going to die to a veng-gmaul or something. So ultimately in a pvp mode, I never got to pvp fairly because I did not swap gold or grind enough.
If I had been willing to swap over around 100m osrs now, I could buy mid tier pvp gear (barrows, vls) and probably get back in the game after another 24 hours hardcore grinding.
I think people just need to accept this "buy-in" cost if they want to play without playing 18 hours a day in a group, I could get that money with some easy zulrahing no problem faster than earning it in dmm.
I would also like a new permanent deadman world with the GE available from the start and all the mechanics of the current seasonal, at least if the mode is permanent I don't need to accept my grind is being deleted at end of month, and can take my time to get to endgame.
tl;dr - I could never suggest playing DMM to a newer or even not super hardcore player, you either need to be in a clan, or be ready to not sleep for a week straight (plus swap some gp) to play deadman mode. This isn't a bad thing, but I am going to stick to watching people in future.