Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-110.146.149.161-20150813074512/@comment-26018514-20150903012334

LiveandSound wrote: But only when actually trying to cross said limited range, no?

Let's say you have a gun and a sniper rifle. The sniper rifle can fire bullets to, say, 50m or more, while the ones fired with the gun barely reach the 20m. If you were trying to shoot something that is 15-20m away from you, why should you use the sniper rifle, which is heavier, more dangerous, and more difficult to use, instead of the gun, which is lighter, simpler, easier to use, less dangerous, and whose bullets are more common and cheaper? Because in this hypothetical the gun is unproven to be any of those things other than "more common" most likely distance = difficulty as the aura attempts to return to it's source, and dust will always be a physical rider.

Given this style of constraints, the more apt comparisons would be extending your arms(and possibly over reaching) throwing a beanbag, vs launching it using a sling shot, or slapping something with artificial limb that is also a gun when you require full extension of it to do so.

Do both work? quite possibly. are either use more efficient than the other? again yes. If both require training and you know how to do one well, does the other benefit you more? not necessarily.