Frustration

The explosion was on the scale of mid sized nukes(I calculated), compounding wouldn't have done anything, even if both him and the gold weren't instantly evaporated.

On all points regarding armor, the average ring weighs around 7 grams and takes weeks to fill(WoA page 484). Armor weights around 70kg, meaning it would take over 10,000 times longer to fill, and works out to over 500 years of storing to fill.

There is explicit statements, and there are implied statements. I assume that people here have some level of rational thought, and that I do not need to walk them through every step of my thought process. When you point out powers we have not seen Nale do, even if we know he has them, I will point out powers that we know Dalinar has. You mean aside from the end of Oathbringer, and the fact that in that same scene he literally thinks that he will take the mink and flee to the CR if things go bad? Power is defined by access, and ability to use Investiture. So no, Miles is not more powerful. Yes we do, Vasher had 25 breath, Denth had 1. They are both unchained. Are you referring to me saying Vasher is more skilled with awakening, when Tglassy said that Denth was more skilled with a sword?

*Eats the shoes* There, now no one is happy.

Did you read the entire thread, or did you just skim it and make a post based on what you got out of it? Because if you had read the entire thing you would have realized that I said that in terms of storytelling that unshown powers might as well not exist, Tglassy then said that Nale is more powerful than Dalinar, sighting powers that were at that point unseen, so I pointed out that counting unseen powers Dalinar was more powerful. Perhaps instead of automatically assuming I'm being illogical, read through everything and get the context behind the conversation.

When storing you form Connections slower, people take less notice of you, it takes longer to form meaningful relationships with people, and the opposite when tapping. There are other things you can do with it, but we don't know the extent of those.

Connection is the metaphysical concept of relationships. Basically how you relate to time, people, places, language, nations, ideas, etc.

So in TLM we see awakened locks for the first time, which are able to tell if you've been given a password or if you stole it. So the question I had was: what if you stole a password, and then gave them to someone else and had them open it? So far as the second person knows they were given the password, so the lock should open. And that's how you bypass the most secure lock currently known.

Yeah, the thought that went into it was so much cooler than chance victory. As was Wax spending the entire fight on the back foot, and having to make up for it in skill and ingenuity. Now that is true. I'd argue these are all equal power, Dalinar and Ishar both being Bondsmiths, and Vin, Shan, and Zane all being Mistborn.

Lift is a PoV character for the back five Stormlight books. I think she's the flashback character for book 5 or 8.

All Stormlight spoilers are allowed here, including in titles.

And? Dalinar can literally strip Nale of his heraldship. Bondsmiths are literally the most powerful thing we've seen outside of Dawnshards and Shards, by far. It did, Wax shot Miles gun out of his hand when on the train, pretty much left him impotent. If you look closer you would find I didn't say they didn't exist, I said that if they weren't shown, then ON A NARRATIVE LEVEL they might as well not exist. That only worked if he had more power than them. And the Inquisitors didn't tap metalminds.

Just 19, as she's 17 Rosharan years old in OB, which would be roughly 19 on Earth.

Could you be any more sarcastic? Why would you not be able to hold it? It's not like Moash is standing right in front of him with his hands in surrender or anything. Just reach out and do it.

You literally answered your own question. And as her breath is what beat him that exactly the point. Um, no. They were straight up just mistborn. They didn't even display any amount of raw power that was beyond her. Nale's power: fly Dalinar's power: Travel between realms, summon infinite Stormlight, read people's past etc. He is by every metric more powerful. And Wax can take his gun away and fly out of reach. Then neither of them can be hurt. 1. She was trained, she really didn't do any training between there and the end of the book. 2. Their allomantic strength and Feruchemy was not displayed, and if you want to argue it anyway Vin had the mists. Undisplayed powers from a narrative point might as well not exist. Vasher was better at the magic so therefore he was the more powerful of the two. Vasher never had to improvise or think on his feet, he just pulled out a strategy he had already used and won, with simple raw power. Vin had access to vastly more Investiture than the Inquisitors, but that's beside the point. Dumad displayed more power than Wax, and so he had more power than Wax.

Pewter is just the best allomantic metal, by far. F-Bronze, because I have trouble sleeping. And while I put bronze for compounding, I could go with electrum as well, both would be good attributes to have, as they would save me so much time, I either get to work non-stop without sleep, or I can dedicate myself to a task with single-minded determination.

Use Syl as a full body handcuff, bind his hands in fists so he can't summon a blade, and then lock them in a set position. Then you take his Stormlight, and you have a captured Moash.

The problem with Kaladin in these situations isn't that he not violent enough, it's that he refuses to do anything that isn't violent. He could just capture people, but to hom it's either fight or do nothing.

Most of those require additional people. I'm basing this off of what a single person* with these abilities could do, using only that power, so hemalugy is off the table. *The exception being where the abilities themselves allow for more people, such as Squires, Lifeless, Skeletals, or Aviar.

And she had the same powers as them. Same power though. Helaran might have been able to kill more people, but Kal had more power. Again, same level of power. Tonk Fah had no power. The only power Dilaf could actually use against Hrathen was his strength, which Hrathen also had in his arm, so same power. They were both Twinborn, so same level of power. He didn't even use his powers, so in terms of storytelling he might as well have not had them. Dalinar has a lot more power than Nale.

I cannot even begin to state how impressed I am, this honestly changes how I see awakening.

Well, maybe?

Isek had never really been into studying monsters, that had always been his father's thing, but even to him every inch and alloy within was screaming danger. Fortunelty for him, combat had been something he studied. It can move increadibly quickly, can slow down things that approach it, so we need to lock it in place, Isek thought. Isek knelt down, and allowed metal to flow from him, a thin silvery lining that spread outward, covering the ground.

I was skimming through TLM last night, and I reread the first fight Wax and Dumad have during Marasi's sting opperation in Bilming, and as I was going through I found myself continually impressed by how good the fight was, it seemed, almost perfect, and I want to share my thoughts. The most obvious reason for the fight being so good was how dynamic it is, the location and relative advantages are continuously changing, from an initial exchange of bullets, to shoving trucks over, to machine guns, to a firefight inside and outside of an appartment building, to a final showdown in the sky. It never stops moving. But, there are other examples of this in the Cosmere, such as Vin's fight with the Inquisitors, or Wax versus Miles at the end of AoL, what made this fight in particular special? And that's when it struck me: this is the first time Cosmere characters have actually gone up against someone more powerful than themselves, and perhaps more importantly, someone who can punish them for using their powers, which forced them to adapt on the fly. In previous fights, there might have been an illusion of a power imbalance, such as Vin versus TLR, but when it came down to it, the protagonist always had the upper hand, i.e. the mists. Here however, Dumad has not only more powers than Wax, but he has more combat focused ones as well, Wax can't overpower him, and even using feruchemy can be a detriment as Dumad can sense him. So Wax had to use guile, tricks, and think on his feet, which in conjuntion with the already dynamic fight lead to, in my mind the most epic fight scene in the entire Cosmere.

Welcome to Frustration's Firepower Index, where I analise the combat capabilities of Cosmere worlds and magic systems. This thread is focused on Windrunners. Preparation: Be a fifth oath Windrunner, as well as a warform singer, along with a full set of second oath squires of Warform singers, we don't know what the maximum is, but the number exceeds twenty, so I'm going to use that as a baseline. Equip each squire and yourself with multiple pouches of large gemstones, allowing for continual renewal of stormlight. Additionally give each squire an aluminum lance(Or a longbow/crossbow with aluminum tipped arrows), heavy aluminum darts, a bag of rocks, and at least one fabrial, such as a painrail, half-shard, or a blood attracter. Additionally each squire as well as the radiant themselves should be equipped with several anti-light grenades in a padded pouch. Offenses: Shardblades can instantly cut through just about any material and change shape to any weapon, and the strength of shardplate on top of warforms already impressive strength makes punches, or blunt force shardweapons equally deadly. With aluminum darts they can drop them from above and let them shower down on opponents. Aluminum tipped arrows and darts can lodge in the body and prevent invested healing. Painrails can cause nearly incapacitating pain to anyone caught in them, and certain attracter fabrials are powerful enough to pull the blood out of anyone nearby(WoR chapter 82, page 993). With rocks you can apply dozens of lashings to a single rock, and send it shooting out with incredible speed, due to the ability to create delayed lashings(OB chapter 34, page 353). And anti-stormlight+stormlight grenades. Additionally they can lash people upward, allowing gravity to kill them. Defenses: Shardplate will protect the radiant, and can move to protect their squires as well, and stormlight will heal both them and their squires, with half-shards protecting any squire that has them. Additionally reverse lashings can pull entire volleys of projectiles out of the air, and are even able to affect the trajectories of bullets. Mobility: Windrunners can fly, continuing to accelerate until they reach terminal velocity, while also manipulating wind to push themselves faster, and keep their groups in formation. OB(322). Stealth: Shardplate can be commanded to stop glowing, but squires, and other sources of stormlight are highly visible, and they can send spren to invisibly scout ahead. Awareness:Windspren and Honorspren can invisibly search large areas increadibly quickly, with Honorspren seemingly able to sense objects that they want(WoK Chapter 23, 343). Additional abilities: Full lashings can lock people in place, as can shardplate if the radiant is willing to risk it.