Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4010415-20170717151617/@comment-30530552-20170718002427

Understandable view SYUTK. To me though...the way she used Fire Dust and how she moved through the fight seemed pretty noobish to me. With that Fire Dust, she put it onto the blade, and sent it out in a very uncontrolled manner, with a large spread, but danger of hurting anything in her way. Which, true...is kinda what Fire AOE attacks do, but since Weiss doesn't use Fire Dust a lot, and she seems to lack control with it, so I'd still classify her pre-Volume 1. Skilled from her years of training and studying, but with less control than Volume 1 Weiss' Fire Dust attack, which even though that was done in an uncontrolled manner, that wasn't intentional on her part, and wouldve been precise had Ruby not gotten in the way. The Ice too, seemed to lack control, though less so than her Fire Dust (which is consistent with her preferences). So overall, yeah, she's skilled but inexperienced, and when she got pinned, she was helpless.

That, and how she stabbed that one summon 6 times before getting it to die, seemed also very noobish. And how useless she was without her weapon....she could've at least used a Glyph either to protect yourself or get your weapon back.

I do agree that making it look like she cast it herself seemed a little weird, but maybe for her, sicne Fire Dust would be harder to use, she has to have her Aura closer to it since her usage of a conduit for it seems a little low in this situation. Again, that's me playing a devil's advocate, and personally the thing with this trailer was mostly just anime's "Rule of Cool" and "Oh look, Weiss is back in action agaon, how cool!"