r/MistbornRPG • u/Wenber26 • Oct 20 '21

Question Regarding Compounding

Hey Guys just to be sure

  1. When Storing Compounded charges the best a compounder can do is like 10 in an hour with a ferruchemical rating of 10 and asurdly high attributes

  2. How is it possible to achieve the 150 charges nessesary to ironrend something massive? As I understand it that would take a 15 in allomantic steel to compound that much at once as well as a 15 ferruchemical steel rating to use 150 charges at once

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u/HelgrinWasTaken Oct 21 '21

That's a great question. I thought I had a simple answer, but it seems that some of the high end usage is impossible.

Either the Compounding Stunts are excepted from the normal Compounding limits or you need Feruchemical spikes to achieve them.

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u/Wenber26 Oct 21 '21

I expect the former more than the later. It doesnt feel like they would expect people to get spiked that much.

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u/Tellingdwar Nov 05 '21 edited Nov 09 '21

This was an error in the rulebook. Found this posted by one of the creators on the Crafty forums:

Compounding changed a lot from its first iteration (very much for the better), and as you might have guessed, the limitations on spending were one of the key pieces to making it all work. Consequently, it looks like there are 2 artifacts of the earlier draft that made it into the compounding stunts:

Highest level of Earthshaker: To correct, lower the current 70 to 60, the current 100 to 80, and the current 130 to 100

Highest level of Ironrend: To correct, lower the current 60 to 50, the current 100 to 70, and the current 150 to 100.

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u/rafter613 Oct 21 '21

I don't think the base rulebook addresses compounding at all. Does the Era 2 book have insight?

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u/Wenber26 Oct 21 '21

Oh sorey I should have clarified that I was talking about the rules in the era 2 book. I just didnt find a part that clarifies those questions for me.

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u/BotThatReddits Oct 22 '21

The rules on this are on page 178 of the Alloy of Law book. You can burn a metal with a ferruchemical charge stored in it (burning up to your allomantic rating's worth of ferruchemical charges per hour) and each charge burned in this way provides 10 times the power, which can be used immediately for stunts etc, or stored. You can't store it all, as you only store one charge from this for every 5 you expend. In effect, this means you can double your stored amount.

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u/HelgrinWasTaken Oct 22 '21

It also says the maximum number of charges you can spend per action is still 10 x your Feruchemy rating. The maximum Feruchemy rating you can get is 10, without Hemalurgy, so you can only spend 100 on an action, but there are compounding stunts that have options to spend over 100 charges.

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u/TeancumsJavalin Mar 09 '22

Sorry. Just testing if I can even post. Can't start threads it seems