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gold ferruchemy + fifth heightening would probably allow you to store health a lot faster, yes. probably more than enough for almost any normal scenario most people would encounter. not on the level of compounding, but compounding health is really only necessary if you want to make a career out of doing oterhwise lethal things like walking into burning buildings without potective gear. for day to day life, even regular gold ferruchemy is probably plenty most of the time.

i mean, if you are already compounding, then the ability to store more health doesn't really make much difference

yea, Early on they mostly are just monsters, but more and more you'll get bits and pieces of what is going on with them

she is the worst. yea, their meetings with each other are always interesting. I'm not sure how much of this you've gotten yet, but i really like how much Jordan humanizes the forsaken. I think it makes them into more interesting villains.

for what its worth, I love ATLA and Korra, but I didnt like The Dragon Prince, and personally, I don't consider it a sucessor in any real way, in spite of the creators.

Just finished The Gathering Storm on my WoT reread, and got a couple chapters into Towers of Midnight, but then I saw that my Library hold on Battle Ground had come in, so now Towers of Midnight is on hold so I can blitz through Battle Ground (helps that its a dreary day today and tomorrow is a holiday, so I should be able to speed through it). just as Glad I hadnt gotten any further in, but now I'm wishing I'd checked my email earlier so I wouldnt have started Towers of midnight in the first place. I don't much like reading mutliple series at once, let alone multiple books.

I suppose everyone is entitled to their own opinions....now if you'll just excuse me, I'm going to be over here in the corner Frothing with Rage

as far back as Melee I was thinking they should have done something like this for young Link, using the masks from Majroa's Mask. This was before Pokemon Trainer was a thing, but if you took the concept I thought up at the time it would have looked an awful lot like how Pokemon Trainer worked, with you able to swap between the deku, goron, and zora masks, and each of those would have one of their special attacks replaced with the swap command. Goron would be missing an up+B, for instance.

Probably not though. nucelar fission (breaking the atoms) and breaking atomic bonds are, physically, completely different processes. they arent particularly related to each other, and are moderated by different forces. It isn't impossible that the surge of division handles both, but I wouldn't bet on it, either.

so duralumin + soulcasting would let you affect larger things than you could with soulcasting alone, in that example?

maybe. i'd have to think about it some, but the text does tend to support this - kaladin during the big shard duel seems to imply that multiple lashings really are multiple separate instances stacked on each other, rather than one singlew big lashing. but is that because he cant do a big lashing, or because he thinks of the lashing as being 1g? but that is also only one example. its hard to imagine that soulcasting or lightweaving works the same way. and i agree that duralumin + surgebinding would work, just a question of whether the effect could be done with surgebinding alone or not.

I don't know that i'd ever consider them the perfect couple. pretty sure Faile is at least a little obnoxious throughout, fo rinstance. but I do agree that Jordan's depiction of them being in love and being in a relationship actually gets better. but as far as the fallign in love part, he does a pretty poor job of that in most cases

a substantial amount of extra work, as I understand it, yes.

See my perspective on it is that by the time she met Rand, he was somewhat of a bully himself. he was driven to it for solid reasons, but the end result is the same. having someone who won't put up with his worst impulses is something he needed badly. And while she does make an effort to restrain his personality, she isn't as manipulative with him as just about every other Aes Sedai he has every met, Moiraine included (early on anyway)

A couple peopel have mentioned Cadsuane today, and i'm curious why. I didn't have any particular problem with her, and she certainly comes off a lot more competent than 99% of the other Aes Sedai.

Rand is a lot stronger than Egwene or Nynaeve. but yes, you are right that it strains credulity a bit. A lot of it comes down to Rand doing things instinctively without understanding what he is doing, but basically randomly lashing out with the power would normally be almost as likely to cause the user problems as it would the enemy, so the fact that it is working for him is distinctly unlikely.

Having recently completed my HP reread I will say this: 1. Harry is just constantly wrong, and it kind of annoys me. I mentioned it a couple months ago but his constant suspicion of Snape is reasonable in books 1 and 7, but pretty much unreasonable the rest of the time, yet he still maintains it. also, pretty sure he and ron would have failed out in their first year without Hermione there to help them, so why do they insist on being the ones to face everything, instead of leaving it to their much much more competent teachers. 2. the writing does tend to get better as we go. and book 7 in particular, highlighting the similarities between Tom Riddle and Harry and using that to help Harry, and the audience, understand Voldemort, and to find the Horcruxes - that is some solid writing, credit where it is due. 3. Snape's writing also gets better as we go. hes a remorselessly terrible person, for the most part, but he is also still fighting for the good guys, whcih makes him interesting. 4. so much of the worldbuilding and magic system are completely non=sensical. it gets to be grating after a while. though again, the worst examples of this tend to be earlier on.

for what its worth: 1. Moghedien isn't stronger than Lanfear. at least not in the Power. She is allegedly better at manipulating tel'aran'rhiod, but Lanfear is definitely stronger with Saidar. 2. Rand is, I think, as strong in the power as it is possible to be, so strength for strength he is a match for any of the forsaken, more than a match for most.

Rand does a good bit of this too honestly, like when he ignores Moiraine, who legitimately has decades of political experience on him. but by the time he does do it, we've seen enough of his perspective to understand exactly why, so it doesn't feel quite as egregious. After being jerked around by Aes Sedai and forsaken for months on end, its sort of understandable why he'd give htem short shrift. And even then its less like "I'm right and you're wrong, so there" and more like "I'm sick you you trying to force me to do things your way, and now I don't have to listen to you so I won't"

Jordan was not very good at convincing relationships, at least not the falling for each other stage. Perrin and Faile never really made any sense at all, and he pretty much skipped that step entirely for Nynaeve and Lan. like they've barely met and then suddenly by whitebridge they are in love?

second book is pretty good. but yea, they go off the rails fast.

Haven't gotten to it yet, but I could imagine how that might be the case, especially in a Dresden Files book, where there is usually (though ot always) some mystery/detective work going on that would have to be cast to the sidelines, if not abandoned entirely, for the kind of thing you describe.

I know. what I meant is that we haven't seen anything to suggest that stormlight/surgebinding has a similar limit. i.e. there isn't necessarily anything to suggest that Kaladin couldn't just drop all his stormlight on a single massive lashing even without something like duralumin to assist does it though? I thought it just force-burned your metals at a much higher rate than you could do naturally. to put another way, using duralumin to burn another metal doesnt increase the total power you get out of that metal, it just compresses the amount of time it takes to get that power out.

for what its worth, I think the perpendicularity helped too, by putting her closer to the cognitive realm. but yes, having boatloads of stormlight at hand definitely did its part. you might be right on the other. I'm not sure that we've seen anyone try to push their entire stormlight reservoir into a single surge, but we also havent heard anything about the sort of limits that stop allomancers from doing huge pushes most of the time, so it might be possible, and just not something they've needed to try as yet.

What makes you think Jasnah needed the perpendicularity? the two times we see her port into/out of shadesmar there is no idnication that there is a perpendicularity anywhere near.