Well, it's not the same pointless as Blood Thirsty Challenge or Ironman Challenge or LOTR Challenge or other challenges? True, u have no reward but doing it...so...if this is pointless, other challenges that have no reward are pointless as well right?
Forbidding even eating any food that you might find is just making it annoying over anything else. If you can't heal yourself at all, you just wouldn't pick a class without self-heal. It just limits your options, doesn't make it any more interesting.
Course people CAN do it, but why bother? It's boring.
That's not the most hardcore challenge.
The most hardcore challenge is the one that only one person has done, and is it reach max level as panda while not having chosen a faction.
So only gathering herbs and mines. Now that's hardcore.
I hope you saw the irony I'm trying to bring. The challenges are nice, but within reason. A challenge doesn't have to be hard only. It has to be somewhat engaging. Your challenge can be done by a bot. Just go to 10 levels lower area and farm mobs. so fun...
I need to stick this thread as a great example of "pointless" as a link in wiktionary or something.