Guild Wars Survivor Style

I don't know. So many arbitrary rules. Most of them don't even make it harder really. Like why can't I use weapons with drops or mod my armor? This just seems pointless.
Or why would I get skill tomes I can only get in hard mode anyway, when I can just get every skill I can get through tomes at the very first trainer anyway. This rule doesn't make sense in the slightest. They arent so much arbitrary as they are similar to the rules for the WoW version, just modified. The point of not using mods is to make you rely more on skill vs whatever the mods add to your character (as clique as it sounds).

As far as tomes, I put that in there to cover the bases. Its better, in my opinion, to spell everything out than it is to just say "Beat the game, don't die".

If you dont like those particular rules, thats fine with me, I have no problem with that, but maybe you can/could leave a suggestion to make it better rather than just saying it's pointless, or doesnt make sense.

You say no heros unless it's required for the mission, but as someone pointed out before, it sounds like the 'nuzlocke' challenge (I am so restarting pokemon platinum in a bit.), but why not use the whole, if it dies, it's gone, let people use heroes, but once they've died, they're gone, leading to people having to save them for especially tough areas, or the likes. *shrugs* Just a suggestion based on Nuzlocke =) I might have to look at this Nuzlocke thing lol! The only concern I can think of with using hero's is this:

You're in a mission with your available heroes and 1 dies. Do you quit the mission and restart with a new hero? Would you just flag him somewhere far away?

I like the idea of using heroes, but once they die once, they are out of the game also. If there is a good way to incorporate that rule, but not make it overly-hard to stick to it, Im all for adding that.

Well, what do you intend to do if henchmen die?
But if you go with, once a hero dies, that's it for them, unless they're specifically required for a mission, why not just say you can only have three hero's at any time, so you can always flag them away, or using the companion idea that was scrapped for GW2, you pick one hero, and stick to it, limit them the same way the player is though, no elites, no mods, just so they're only partially better than most henchmen.
Just another idea, but why not narrow the idea down to like a few main points, and then set optionals, like... Once you die that's it, nothing from storage, can only use drops as your set in stone ones, then the whole no mods, or only blue and whites as suggested optionals for more challenges?

And you should totally check Nuzlocke out, never completed one my self, always ending up loosing something good and rage quit xD While those are good ideas, and ones I hadn't thought of, I would, personally, of course, like to keep these rules as just rules, with additions and/or revisions rather than ruleset a + optionals b,c,d. Im not saying those are bad ideas, or can't get worked in somewhere down the line, but just for now, at least until more people chime in on doing this, I'd like to keep it "kind of" simple.

I prefer to keep the hero/henchman rule, again, for now, to only using a hero when the mission/quest DIRECTLY requires that hero. I guess I should have added a stipulation in there that for those missions/quests, the hero must abide by the same gear/mod rules as the player.

Again, Im not trying to be rude, or anyting like that. I just would like to keep the rules of the challenge fairly easy/simple, at least until there are more people who want to do this type of thing.

Thank you for the ideas though, again, they were/are good ones.

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I am debating on adding a rule(set) for quests. As in, you can do any quests you want, but the same rules apply.

Any ideas if that would go well with this challenge or just kind of stick to primary quests/missions only?

Also, there needs to be some sort of rule about panic quitting the game. Whether or not that should be allowed. Thoughts?