Koloss17

All right all right, I’ll bring F-Tin down a few notches. As much as I hate to admit it, you make good points. Now, don’t get me wrong, I think F-Tin is the best, but maybe not when it’s only F-Tin. It still would be my first pick. And yeah, copper should be lower down.

As long as you spren-d good time on them, it’ll wind up being great.

Okay that’s good!

Only about 20 minutes. When the brain is set on something, it will Elend you a hand.

Glorious stuff. Sel-dom do you get a joke so Dor-kishly clever.

I appreciate that you’ve taken a Larkin to my work!

Come pun come all, all you of Wit. We shall Unite under a Shard banner of Whimsy. Our goal is clear: to Cos but mere disruptions in the flow of conversations, to interject with a quick quip and to bring Ire to those compound us. This Path was Awakened in me by @Justice_Magician, who I was Fortunate enough to bump into. Without her words Snapping me into motion, I might not have decided to Cultivate this thread. So, all are welcome in this Journey to Destine those around us to endure a living Hell. Our Discordant Harmonies will spike the eyes of those Wit-nessing our tuneful Threnodies. Together, we can Roshare this Chaos with those around us, and write with Intent to cause mischief. You are free to stay in damnation with me, but know this: it might lead to your Ruin. Through the Spirit of fun, we shall employ our Cognitive prowess to cause nearly Physical pain to those around us. Cett the Dunn beVin!

That joke was mind-Shatteringly bad.

I suppose… also, rude! My arguments make perfect sense!

Whisper?

Have you not read the sacred texts? I provide plenty an example. But, if you insist, I shall rehash them. Sight: there are admittedly few points in which is would be useful to dim your sight, but depending on if you could create biological shades with it, it could be nice. Do we know if that works? Not really. It seems very possible though, especially with the right intent. For actual sight, F-Tin works differently than A-Tin. When tapping, it basically acts as binoculars, removing near sight, and amplifying far sight. When storing, it would be basically equivalent to making you nearsighted, which we have already discovered a host of ways to fix (glasses, monocles, you know the gist) so overall, really easy to store. Smell: often, you really don’t need your sense of smell. And depending on where you are, it might be advantageous to not smell what’s around… Hearing: Dampening loud noises, turning off your hearing to better focus on a particular task, or just to better ignore someone that you don’t like! Taste: eating something you don’t like? Not eating anything at the moment? Store away. Touch: again, touching something unpleasant, improving focus, and dissipating itchiness are all good times to store your touchminds. Pain: it’s the only thing that you actively want to store and never touch, completely breaking the net neutrality of Feruchemy!! Balance/Proprioception: easy to store when sitting down, which is a pretty common position to be in. Where storing F-Tin can actually improve your focus, storing F-Steel would absolutely obliterate my focus. Typing, playing a board game, or even just reading, when I go to move something, it being infuriatingly slow? That sounds insanely irritating. Additionally, though I’m sure intent would make this not matter, does storing F-steel decrease your eye speed? Do you lock onto or look at something slower? Probably not, but if so, that sounds like a new level of annoying.

I find this argument compelling. How much higher do you think it deserves to be? Would you believe me that this post was not meant to be more F-Tin propaganda? I understand if you don’t, but now, you’ve forced my hand. So what makes F-Tin the most versatile metal is the fact that storing is just as, if not occasionally more useful as tapping. There are plenty instances where you can easily store every possible sense, as well as actively benefiting from it! I doubt that there is a very easy way to run out of any of your tinminds. Also, we are an insanely sensory species, and so having the ability to manipulate that allows for a massive increase in capability. The limitations with Duralumin and Electrum is that they make everything better when you tap it, but consequently make everything worse when storing. With Chromium, I don’t think we really know how it works with futuresight just yet, and if a chromium Ferring would be able to use that or not.

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Well, now that I’m done with my analysis of every feruchemantic ability, found here, it’s time to rank all of them! I’ll be ranking these in isolation, so assuming that the user is not dual wielding magic systems (except for F-Nicrosil, which I’ll assume is just paired with any other magic system). 16: F-Cadmium Its a tight race between 15th and 16th and I think Cadmium just manages to steal last. Storing breath is cool and all, but is generally only useful for either athletic activities or surviving being suffocated. And to add on to that, storing seems like a nightmare. Having to struggle to breathe and to hyperventilate just so you don’t have to later seems to be a bit much. I’ve ranked it the lowest in my daily analysis, and I stand by it. However, I do admit, it has the most potential for being used as the basis of space travel on Scadrial. But then we are getting into medallions, and that opens up a whole new can of worms. 15: F-Bronze Wakefulness is very useful, don’t get me wrong. But compared to other things? It’s not fantastic. However, I’d say it has the potential to be good. And frankly, I’d be a happy human if I had this. 14: F-Electrum Storing determination has a lot of potential. If we knew a bit more of how it would work, it might get a higher ranking. Right now, I’m seeing it as unlocking your full potential with what you know on one thing, at the cost of doing basically nothing or doing very bad at doing anything for a period of time. Interesting, but doesn’t exactly allow you ability you wouldn’t have otherwise, which is what holds this back. 13: F-Aluminum I’m only putting this so high because I think there’s a lot of potential here. Identity is a very important thing in the Cosmere, and being able to manipulate that in any form is theoretically very powerful. However, we have no clue how it works, and so I can’t really rank it higher. It beats out some of the things we do know, but I can’t in good faith give it a very high spot in this ranking without knowing exactly what it does. 12: F-Bendalloy Being able to store calories seems very nice. It doesn’t give you the ability to destroy worlds, but it sure is convenient. Overeating when you have the resources, and then not having to eat days on end just seems like something that everyone can benefit from. It’s not a crazy good power, but it sure ain’t bad. 11: F-Nicrosil This is another one of those abilities that I can’t put in the top 10. If we knew how it works, sure. I’d still dock it a bit for being useless (as we understand it right now) without having access to another magic system, but it would still be fairly high. Right now, we can only guess at what it can do, and that’s not enough to put it above things that we already know what they do. 10: F-Pewter Okay, top ten are all really tough. All of them are very solid abilities, and placing pewter so low gives me just as much pain as it does you. However, an ability that is probably just not as good as it’s allomantic counterpart that is only really useful for strictly physical jobs is a bit too limited in scope. Especially in a world where there’s guns, being able to be big and beefy can only get you so far. It is, however, still really good in certain situations. 9: F-Zinc This is another ability that is really nice, but comes at a harsh cost. I feel like you can do stronger things with cheaper prices across other metals. Being able to think fast at the cost of thinking slow is quite the extreme. 8: F-Brass This one has serious potential to be higher on the list. Being able to melt or set fire to things with your hands has the potential to be very powerful. Additionally, being comfortable in literally any temperature is very nice. Awesome metal, and really cool. 7: F-Copper Being able to recall anything from memory is seriously nice. It can help with a whole range of things, and is helpful for nearly any walk of life. However, memory can only take you so far if it’s false memory. Keepers have insane memories that normal folk would not be able to match, and so @alder24 makes a fair argument that it would likely be nowhere near as strong as it is in the books because of that. 6: F-Chromium This a lot of potential, and even with the basic idea of ‘luck’, it’s quite good. It stores Fortune, which is something we don’t quite grasp. If I knew the true ramifications of storing fortune, this has the potential to be very high on the list. 5: F-Duralumin Connection is a seriously strong ability, in both storing and tapping. It’s solid in pretty much any situation, but it gets truly powerful when worldhopping. It is an automatic language processor and a super Rioter, as well as dulling people’s awareness of you like A-brass. However, given that I don’t know the full extent of what it can and can’t do, I’ll keep in around here. 4: F-Tin Well, don’t tell me that I’m an unreasonable overlord. F-Tin I’d seriously good, and useful in some capacity for just about anything. However, there will always be something more useful than it in a certain task, and while I still stand by the fact that it is the most versatile metal, something like F-chromium would suit people better in many situations. However, due to the fact that the skill curve is so much higher than F-chromium, as you know exactly how it works, this will still be in the top 5. While it is initially kind of meh on its own, with years of practice, I have no doubt that it can be used to vastly assist the efficiency of just about any task. 3: F-Steel As @Trusk'our has rightly argued, this is one of the most powerful feruchemantic abilities when tapped. It is the undisputed champion of combat, and it is just really convenient in general. It does seem annoying to store, but when the advantage is so great, it is likely worth it. 2: F-Iron Now, this is the single most documented metal, so that might influence things, but it is still just really good. Having upsides when storing and tapping is very strong, and I can see a use in just about any task (aside from politics or IT, I suppose). But any task that requires movement will benefit from this metal, and it is the key to space travel, so I’d say that influences things a lot. 1: F-Gold Now, I freely admit that I am biased towards metals that are easy to store, or even have advantages when stored. But when the advantage is temporary immortality, there are very few prices that would not be worth paying. And if you have to be sniffly for a day or two, it is 1000% worth it for instantly recovering from sickness or injury. This is easily second place. And that’s the list! Let me know if you would change things, and in all likelihood, I’ll end up shimmying this ranking around. I’ll be keeping a log of the changes made to this as little notes at the bottom here, so that we can see what the history of this is. For now though, let me know your thoughts! Let the arguments begin! Edit 1: shifted F-Steel to 5th place Edit 2: dropped F-copper to 7th place, and dropped F-Tin to 4th place. F-Tin is still supreme, but not in this battle.

I appreciate that. I think this is a site that I get easily addicted to, so reminding myself that I don’t have to push it is always nice. I think I will end up doing another of these, probably for allomancy, maaaaybe for Hemalurgy, but I think that’s best after the other two. But assume it’ll be a bit. I think I’ll try to post less and comment more, as I often end up making a bunch of posts and not looking at others’ cool stuff. But there will be a ranking of all of the feruchemantic metals first!!

I think this means I’ve succeeded. In allomancy, you have gnats, which are just straight up useless unless you’re a Mistborn. With Feruchemy, there’s a use to everything. Well, given the popularity of this thread, after a suitable break, I could totally do a Daily Allomancy or Feruchemy Deep Dive if folks want! First, I must make my ultimate Feruchemy ranking post.

Daily Feruchemy Analysis Day 16: F-Electrum Now, when I was doing my daily Twinborn thread, I had thought this was the worst Feruchemantic metal. Is that true? I don’t know. I mean, determination is helpful. It is great for pretty much any situation, which is better than many a feruchemantic ability. Storing can be annoying, as again, determination effects everything. My biggest concern is this: would storing determination ever make you feel so undetermined that you don’t want to store determination anymore? Methinks the answer is that that is very possible. So I’ll give it this: it is a very interesting metal. Rating: 6.5/10. Improves your focus and willpower, improving your performance of pretty much anything, but storing also decreases your performance of pretty much everything. I think that, for any given task, there is a better metal for that task. However, it is versatile, and I do like versatility.

you seem to be lacking in the relationship section. If there isn't any, mentioning that is often helpful.

Yeah, I was considering giving it a 9/10, just because of how powerful it can be. I’ll consider that in my ranking after it’s all done.

Daily Feruchemy Analysis Day 15: F-Gold We’re almost done, and we’re nearing the end with a banger! F-gold is imo a justified top tier metal, as tapping it to give temporary immortality is really nice. This too has a cult dedicated to it! Tapping can suck a little bit, as being sick is never fun, but I think the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages. It is also fantastic for soldier life, science life, and everyday life. I don’t really see it being a great political or business metal, but it is still really nice. Rating: 8.5/10. Fantastic metal, and great for all walks of life. I still think it id one of the more annoying to store, but the benefits far outweigh the costs, and it is far from the worst to store.

I’m sorry but it’s true. Cadmium is cool, but it’s just too limited :(.

Daily Feruchemy Analysis Day 14: F-Bendalloy Sorry for the late post y’all! Busier days than expected. F-Bendalloy seems pretty not bad. Storing calories means that you can eat however much you want, and then go without eating later. It seems quite convenient for most walks of life, but admittedly caters to the more civilian lifestyle. It won’t make you a superhero, but it sure is nice. Rating: I’d say this is like a 6.5 or so. It’s pretty solid, but nothing too special. Definitely above cadmium though.

So long as they are more than just that, it should be just fine!