Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26064215-20150127201253/@comment-74.194.230.101-20150223032927

LiveandSound wrote: 1-That only makes it potentially OP. Not much better.

2-The effects are rather too effective though, if we take what you said to the letter. Eating Lightning Dust to become as fast as lightning? Which means, as fast as a flash of light?

3-Still OP. And Pyrrha showed that in like the 7th episode. 1) Not really. to be able to do godlike abilities, one would first have to be able to manipulate godlike flows of energy, which again, is physically impossible because no single being could have that much aura. The physical limitations are physical limitations. The primary reason this would be OP is because it is versatile. One just can't raze a city because they feel like it, they'd be limited to say, a small AoE fire effect. Really it would be little more effective than Weiss' glyphs.

2) again that full does would be for only one quick burst movement, and I meant that metaphorically, as in they get a brief burst of super-speed from a full dose of lighting dust, and then they would be suffering detrimental effects if they used this too much. My general guess is that the body would only be able to internalize a few doses

3) How is it OP? One is still using their aura to supplement another's. At most one could A) briefly stun an opponent, but it would exhaust them, so not really useful in a fight B) they could maybe give someone about 1 1/2 times their normal aura levels, the primary function of this would be to have a benevolent overseer manipulating your own aura to aid and supplement you, but it isn't like any one person could give someone immeasurable defense, and it still uses both people's aura, it just allows one to control another's aura to their benefit, in case they fail to see an opponent coming at them from behind or some such thing, or to supplement their shielding effect fi their aura alone won't be enough, but the effect is additive and still costs just as much aura to use, but allows one to divy up the source. C) one could maybe heal a broken bone at best, but the healing will clearly not go far, as aura is limited.

You keep assuming the characters with these semblences will have godlike auras, but they won't they will be regular people with regular levels of aura, and as such their semblence, like anyone else's, will be limited by their aura levels. Just like how running glyphs up the wall for Ruby at the end of the initiation story arc nearly KO's Weiss, trying too much will be the defeat of the people with these semblences. Trying to manipulate an energy flow to drop a mountain on someone? Your brain will literally melt, and you'll die, trying to consume lighting dust like 15 times in a matter of minutes to allow yourself constant super-speed? Your body will be severely taxed and you'll barely be able to move because your muscles will be completely out of it. Trying to heal someone who has a gaping hole in their chest but somehow isn't dead yet (because if they are dead their aura will obviously be gone), you might live but you become dead weight for the entire group. The semblences themselves may seem OP, but you are failing to look into the physical components of the actual character. like all other character's they will have a limitation on how far they can use their semblence. Phyrra couldn't use her polarity to just pick up a f*cking train car and throw it at someone, nor could she levitate a plane for an hour straight, why should you assume that the characters who have my semblences would have that godlike level of aura?