Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20170410034737/@comment-25936766-20170603190259

JadenLan wrote: "You have this powerful attack, but you have to drop your shields to use it" or "really powerful attack but drains your energy" is a pretty common way of fixing a balancing issue of a powerful attack. So if you have a semblance like Adam's that's powerful but drains your aura when used... I guess that works. 2 problems:

1-Literally all Semblances drain Aura when used, it's their equivalent of MP.

2-Last time I checked, Adam's Semblance wasn't implied to be so costly that it could be used as an example of "Powerful but Expensive" Semblances.

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@Ray: A Semblance that makes the user more vulnerable or weakens them is fine.....

.....Though unless the character has some severe self-steem problems and/or is the bad kind of masochist, it would be pretty weird if the Semblance did nothing but weaken the user.