Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-85.130.101.225-20130816112245/@comment-10390252-20130918082026

I'm sure that it's possible to kill a Grimm without a Dust-enhanced weapon, but you need luck and a lot of skill. Otherwise, you're probably in trouble. Oddly enough, that's the lesson that I think Professor Port's 'demonstration' with Weiss as a 'volunteer' is going to teach.

Look at the carvings outside of the Death Stalker cave. There must have been a dozen tribesmen involved in that and the most they were able to do was trap it in the cave. That's the sort of odds pre-Dust humanity were facing. So, what Dust and Aura makes possible is that only a moderatel-trained soldier can kill a Grimm where, without it, the kill/loss ratio probably turns the monsters way with several human soldiers being lost for every Grimm killed.