Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25253032-20140912013821/@comment-25417499-20140920221400

The point is, even though some semblances have the capacity to be used alone as an offensive technique, the vast majority of the time they're used to augment and enhance one's fighting style, working in tandem with physical combat. Also, I think the point to using Dust would be that Dust can harness the powers of the elements, fire, water, wind, earth, electricity, whereas currently it seems semblances cannot. Plus, you can't put Aura in ammunition can you? Nope. But you can shove Dust in a bullet, put that bullt in a gun, and shot fire! 'Nuff said.