Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24534644-20170213012304/@comment-31673087-20170405113048

SpiritedDreaming wrote:

7thSalamander wrote:

 -Name: Bubble Blast

 -Active ability: Tier One: Bubbles are summoned within a 50 meter radius. They are filled with pressurized air and can destroy most things they touch, namely limbs. They can be used defensively to slow down and mitigate or nullify incoming damage. I hope when you say it can take limbs off, you mean someone with their aura locked and it's comparable to a standard hand grenade in our world. Unlocked aura would shield the person from having their limb torn off, though it'd take a chunk of their aura with it.

And I'm not so sure about the Utility aspect of it; it's offensive in nature. Its base ability is that it creates exploding bubbles. I made a bubble Semblance that just generates bubbles that are capable of bearing weight on their own but only explode when combined with dust, which is utility, but this semblance is pure Offense. I was thinking in terms of regular humans with no Aura to protect them. Limb would be gone. With aura it would be closer to the pain you get with a bad hit on an aluminum baseball bat but like, 3 times worse.

I used Utility because I was thinking in terms of the character. She'd be using them in a mostly defensive capacity. I wanted something that could be used in both defensive and offensive settings, but I pushed it too far into Offense. At first I was going to make it so that people could ride a group of small bubbles or big ones in additon to everything else, but I dropped it becasue if the character messed up someone would get hurt.

I haven't been at this very long (Only started serioulsy thinking these through last week) but the criticism is helping me fit things together better.