why do people only ever carry a few bottles of metals with them

[Weltall]

Consider this then:

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An attack from the Inquisitor forced Elend to flare pewter to get away. He cut down three koloss with ease, his atium still helping him, but Marsh's immunity was a serious challenge.

In other words, even though he's still actively burning atium there are times when he needs to not just use pewter but flare it to avoid atacks, or follow up on opportunities. Clearly, there are times when the two metals work better together than just relying on atium alone.

[Zape]

Well yes marsh was also burning atium

[Yata he/him]

Do you realize that Elend wasn't fighting alone right?

And he Ned to both maximize his killing rate and the allies' survive rate.

There is no actual sense in not using other metals, expecially the One that burns slowly. And as I said before, the simple fact Elend runned out of metals that Will last hours...means he used them for hours.

 

[Unlicensed Hemalurgist he/him]

I mean it is implied that Elend and his army held the line to keep the koloss out of the Trustwarren for most of the night,

[Zape]

i dont think elend was burning any other metal because they didn't mention so okay ? lets just agree to disagree i think this thread has been tortuously prolonged enough