Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20190630171456/@comment-36926079-20190830002738

People's auras have been broken many times without them dying.

Even then, the amount of martial skill they have alone should keep someone of RWBY's skill alive unless against particularly difficult foes.

Armor is useful from a utilitarian standpoint as it not only helps deflect blows with its convex shape, but prevents the user from feeling as much pain or receiving as much knockback as one without armor. In real life, a decent suit of armor is left completely unscathed by a bullet of revolver or pistol caliber, which is way stronger than a strike from a beowulf against armor because of the sheer amount of concentrated force compared to a deflectable paw of considerable size. Now imagine that same suit of armor being supplemented by aura or dust.

So yeah, aura is a supplement for combat skill when it comes to keeping yourself alive against the grimm, and armor can make you Hazel if you had that insane level of aura regeneration.

Puts things into perspective doesn't it?