Burning Efficiency

[+Invocation]

According to Ham, some people can squeeze more power out of their metals than others. Is that based on Connection to Preservation? Like if you were more Connected, you could get more power? As a side note, does that mean The Lord Ruler was the most efficient Allomancer, since he built himself to have the power with a chunk of Preservation's own power?

EDIT: forgot to check Arcanum. Found my answer.

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Oversleep (paraphrased)

Allomantic strength. There are stronger Allomancers, they can burn metals faster, right?

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

Yes, they can also squeeze more power out of it. They can use it more efficiently.

Oversleep (paraphrased)

So there is some loss of power along the way? How do savants work into that?

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

Savants can use it way more efficiently. They are more Connected to the Shard. Closer to Spiritual Realm.

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Edited October 6, 2018 by Invocation
forgot to check WOBs

[Spoolofwhool]

Yes. People who are stronger allomancers, with lerasium-made mistborns at the top, can burn metals more efficiently, burning them more quickly and drawing out more investiture per mass of metal.

 

[Yata he/him]

Yeah it was a quite recent clarification.

Before we believed stronger allomancers simply could burn the metals with highter rates and therefore gain more power/s.