Official WOT melee skill powerlevel

I don't think Perrin is better than Gaul or Rhuarc. He is only better when in the dream world, but not in the physical.

THICC

Jesus, who does enjoy this bloated shit?

WoT could be touched literally as a HBO-series only.

OP is a gigantic faggoth, even so, a perma-virgin.

So, from a practical standpoint, does the hybrid katanna/saber with an angled guard make any sense? I know it fits his post apocalyptic cultural blender, but would they actually be good swords?

Agreed. Perrin was mostly just absurdly strong, he wasn't a well trained warrior. He let instinct and brute strength win him his fights. and if I recall he didn't fight all that many really capable people outside of the wolfdream?

Probaby not desu

The blade itself isn't too bad. The guard is pretty retarded.

Hue that pic is basically Mat.

Was anyone else hyped when Noal turned out to be Jain Farstrider even though it was pretty obvious since his first introduction and then gets to be a Hero of the Horn

>WoT could be touched literally as a HBO-series only.
And soon it will be

I'd disagree. He pretty much went toe-to-toe with eight foot tall Trollocs all the time, has killed Fades, and he regularly killed Aiel.

The most disappointing thing about Perrin is Faile.

Nah, wasn't invested in him.

I would argue te most disappointing thing is how long it took for his character to get over the fact that people wanted him in charge.

Yeah but that was just him refusing his destiny and the responsibility that was involved, like sending people to their deaths. He was just to kind hearted

also Lan == greatest followed by mat

The most disappointing thing was how much wolfing wolf wolf a wolf would wolf.

More importantly is there a braid tugging and dress straightening power level chart?

Daily reminder that Gurm thinks Jaime Lannister can take Rand.

grrm.livejournal.com/147038.html

Yeah his bitch in about having super powers did get old, shut if j got the things he could do I would be happy as a mouse in a cheese factory

Hmmm hard one, is Jaime wearing armor? That has its advantages and disadvantages.

Maybe if a popularity contest decides the winner.

I think not. Especially if Rand is using the One Power. Jaime was good, maybe once in a generation good, but Rand is stupidly overpowered halfway through the series.

Even losing a hand doesn't slow him down that much, and eventually he gets Lews Therin's memories and personality merged with his own. At that point, there's nothing even a two-handed sister-screwing arrogant prick of a Lannister Jaime could do to keep up.

I like Jaime a lot more than I like Rand, and I do like Rand.

Rand uses balefire.
Jaime dies, and there is nothing he can do.
Hell, I think Jaime is the better character and I know he'd lose.

Mat is probably on the same level as Lan. Also Rand with one hand wasn't that massively gimped.

wtf did I just read. Jaime wins because of GRRM's OC. wow.

Graendal be THICC

Rand won that, if I recall correctly

I thought it wasn't HBO who is doing it.

They haven't announced who's doing it yet. HBO would kind of make sense, though, as GoT is winding down toward the end, they'll want to pick up another epic fantasy series to maintain the viewership they have for GoT.

The only other real option is Netflix.

How good is the Wheel of Time series? Like objectively? What type of fantasy is it?

I got given the complete set last week from a friend who was emptying their bookshelves but I don't want to pull myself away from shitty HVNs to read it if it's not my cup of tea.

It's pretty stabil if somewhat long winded.

whats a HVN?

Hentai Visual Novell maybe?

It's utter tripe. Every character is a cardboard cutout, women are a collection of nervous tics and bitchiness, nothing ever happens and everyone thinks everyone else is cooler than them, the end.

Sounds great, thank you!

I have no social life, sounds perfect.

What this guy said

8/10 overall
but there are parts that feel 3/10

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IMHO? You can ignore books 7, 8, & 10. Nothing of note plot-wise happens in 7 & 8 and you can see Jordan's writing suffer from his health in book 10. Books 11 & 12 were by another author and characters suffer as a result.
This is coming from a WoTFag

It's high fantasy (in that, it's fantasy that takes place in a world not our own, but may be a world long before, or long after - when you read the prologue you'll understand).

The characters start out fairly normal power-wise, but by book 5 nearly all of them are badasses of some stripe.

However, , and are spot on, though the former is being a bit too hard on it in my opinion.

Personally, I'd still read 7, 8, & 10, if only because there are some good bits.

Sanderson, who completed the series after Jordan's death, is not a terrible writer, but he's not anywhere in the same league as Jordan was. Jordan's prose, when he wasn't deliberately dragging his feat and describing things in painful detail, was exceptionally good and well paced. Books 1-3 in particular stand out (though for myself, I've re-read Eye of the World so many times it's become something of a chore).

, despite the hard criticism isn't too far wrong. I disagree about the cardboard cutout characters (for men, anyway), but female characters tend to be exasperating Except based Moiraine and Verin in varying levels. Of particular mention are Egwene, Avienda, Nynaeve, Elaine, and all Aes Sedai save the two in the spoiler.

Several of the male characters have some silly "the grass is greener on the other side" opinions of their friends, that when they first crop up are somewhat insightful into their characters, but quickly devolves into a trope within the series because of how frequently the thought "[So and So] is so much better with women than me. Why do I suck so much at this?" comes up.

Source: Another WoTfag

>Jordan's prose, when he wasn't deliberately dragging his feat and describing things in painful detail, was exceptionally good and well paced.
Different user, and I'll grant you that. But God damn did he drag and over-describe.

What's interesting about the series, though, and what I think makes it worth reading, is that it's taking the most hackneyed plot imaginable --- dark lord, farm boy, prophecy, overpowered protagonist etc --- and then taking that plot seriously. What's a world where everyone knows that only the protagonist can save them like? Does being an OP protag actually let you do any lasting good in the world? How does being a novel protagonist screw with your life? Etc.

Hell, he could just wrap him up in weaves of air and stab him, no need to erase him

Also that's something almost any magic user in the setting could do, how's lannister gold or blade skill going to help there?

If he'd had a better editor Wheel of Time could have been god-tier.

Originally, he meant to write a trilogy, and as time went on he basically got to indulge himself because let's face it: There's not a whole lot of authors who write fantasy who will write a series as long as the WoT is, with the quality that it has (despite some of the things we all find annoying, Jordan was clearly a master wordsmith, and his world building is epic).

His editor was his wife. Which really begins to make you wonder not only about the quality of that editing, but also the way in which women are portrayed in the series.

I still don't find the women that bad with a handful of exceptions. Mostly any person in power in the world is insufferable and the country folk are GOAT, and losing those folksy charms is a theme through many characters. Min is never comfortable, Elayne becomes humble as does Nynaeve, while Egwene uses slavery and political power to become one of those people.

Mat is literally unbeatable. He has more martial training than anyone who has ever lived and he's luckier than anyone alive. Any answers that don't put him in the top spot are objectively wrong.

I kinda don't want it to be HBO. Putting up with all the people suddenly really into ASOIAF and dealing with the show continuity (show Stannis) is not an experience I anticipate repeating with my favorite fantasy series.

Jordan was like that guy who made wonder woman. He had a weird bondage relationship with his wife. He's also from the era of Conan so ya know

At least there would be money behind it. I don't want to see a whole series like Winter Dragon.