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linking gives you a huge advantage for gateways Oberonus Send a noteboard - 02/01/2010 04:49:06 PM

For example, the strongest Aes Sedai isn't only 10 or 20% stronger than the weakest one. We can quite definitively say that the strongest Aes Sedai is MANY TIMES as strong as the weakest one. This means that two weak Aes Sedai COMBINED, cannot match a strong Aes Sedai.

Keep this statement of your in mind, as I'm now going to disprove it...


Talking quietly among themselves, the four Kinswomen took their places where they had opened their gateway some hours earlier.
They eyed the corpses in the street and shook their heads, but these were not the first dead men they had seen. Not one would have been allowed to test for Accepted, yet they were calm, sure of themselves...

...The familiar vertical slash appeared and seemed to rotate into a view of the main stableyard in the palace, a hole in the air nearly four paces by four, but the view through the opening, of the tall arched doors of one of the white marble stables, was a little off-center from what she expected.

KoD, Siege.

Now, you said two weak sisters cannot match a strong sister. That might seem fair till you realize the implications of what we're seeing here.

Four women too weak to even be Aes Sedai (less than strength 10, according to you) are linked in this situation. Let us put their average strength at 8. Considering the linking loss, they're approximately of strength 30, by your estimates.

Now, by this calculation, the linking advantage gives a circle of strength 30 the precision to nearly match a channeler of strength 100 (Rand)! How is that possible?

If they were, say, strength 25, linked they would be 90, and given the linking advantage, they'd nearly match the strongest possible channelers.
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Magnitude of the One Power strength difference between the strongest and weakest Aes Sedai... - 02/01/2010 03:47:50 PM 3846 Views
Simple proof that you are wrong... - 02/01/2010 04:17:25 PM 976 Views
linking gives you a huge advantage for gateways - 02/01/2010 04:49:06 PM 711 Views
And your proof for that? - 02/01/2010 06:08:24 PM 646 Views
Shannow gave the proof in his 2nd/3rd post *NM* - 02/01/2010 09:26:03 PM 286 Views
Re: And your proof for that? - 03/01/2010 08:11:21 AM 539 Views
No... - 02/01/2010 05:38:52 PM 636 Views
Actually, it is even greater than I thought... - 02/01/2010 07:45:37 PM 577 Views
Further proof that the Gateway theory on strength is not accurate - 03/01/2010 02:08:17 AM 552 Views
but.... - 03/01/2010 09:17:46 AM 625 Views
You are talking of a Mixed link - 03/01/2010 02:35:01 PM 528 Views
Irrespective of what you find "improbable", the rest of us have to stick to the evidence... - 03/01/2010 03:11:55 PM 527 Views
Indeed - 03/01/2010 04:04:15 PM 569 Views
Who said I was arguing that? - 03/01/2010 05:26:34 PM 526 Views
You are confusing linking gains in gateways with normal linking gains... - 03/01/2010 06:49:04 PM 509 Views
That's nonsense. Nothing says other weaves are not similarly enhanced. - 03/01/2010 07:29:06 PM 555 Views
I agree - 03/01/2010 07:33:07 PM 508 Views
But not to the same extent as with gateways... - 03/01/2010 07:49:15 PM 1154 Views
It's a Talent on top of the linking gains - 03/01/2010 08:11:01 PM 474 Views
This begs the question... Why can't four Aes Sedai defeat Rand? - 03/01/2010 05:02:32 PM 630 Views
Not to mention 1 Beonin can create a gateway 1/4 the size of Rand - 05/01/2010 05:22:24 AM 553 Views
Too simplistic overall - 03/01/2010 01:32:28 AM 743 Views

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