Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-65.94.50.112-20131215233249/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140114004132

I doubt we will see her start using Dust. Pretty sure she may already know how to use it efficiently given that she notes that the WF "never needed that much dust before" implying that it is common for WF to steal dust for it's members to use. Aura, I see a member of Team RWBY teaching her about it, though aura seems more like a passive ability to most, only really being used by Ren to any kind of offensive degree and I don't think Blake is the type to go on all-out offensive. I do see her rely more on her inner feline when it comes to detection and movement.

As for becoming better: I still say that she's still on level with Weiss in terms of actual skill with her weapon. The only reason Weiss can be considered stronger is because of her dust supply. Also no one has proven successful whilst fighting one of the more powerful monsters solo (Ruby almost got killed by the Deathstalker whilst Pyrrha ran away from it), however she has proven her ability against them easily outmaneuvring the Spider Droid and Nevermore at times and even dealing a fair few strikes. As for Roman... I'm almost certain he is not just another weak crime syndicate. Roman seems to be a very skilled fighter and it should be interesting to see how anyone else does against him.