Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20170410034737/@comment-26397825-20170604071637

I believe we've rejected semblances whose main point of balancing is negating the base function of aura for those exact reasons - the passive shield is the base function of aura, even before you discover your semblance. To remove it is to handicap yourself purely for the sake of balancing a semblance, and if you can't find a way to balance your semblance without removing the base function of your life force, then perhaps you should rethink whether the semblance is OP or not.

Though some have been rejected not because they were OP but purely because it's completely unnecessary and just turns the characters into a special snowflake glass canon type.