Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20161230201819/@comment-25936766-20170121030057

Ghost of Anon wrote: 1-How would one use Gravity dust to achieve this effect? If it's firing like Ruby does, then that doesn't apply to everyone.

2-Now the next point relates to the next point. Not everyone can use dust proficiently. Look at Roman in V1C1. He doesn't use the dust like a dust mage would, he shoots it.

Given that only a handful of characters are dust mages, I propose that not everyone has the talent to "use" dust.

Of course, you can do what Ruby does and use magazines that gives the effect, but how inefficient would it be to switch out everytime you want to use a different element?

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3- Referring back to the previous point, not everyone is able to obtain dust or able to use it proficiently. Following your logic, what's the point of Maiden powers? You can achieve the exact same effect by using a multitude of dust.

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4- What if I change the object powerboost to heating up objects? That could work as well. 1-Gravity so far is a Kinetic Burst....so let's say you add some Gravity Dust to the weapon. Boom, extra force, no Semblance needed.

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2-Wrong. Everyone with Aura unlocked can use Dust like a "Mage"....as long as they learn how and bother practicing at doing so, just like they would learn how to wield a weapon or use their Aura.

Some, however, don't bother for X reasons. Roman didn't. Ruby didn't. So they take the alternative: Dust projectiles.

As for the part of "Dust magazines"....it takes like 5 seconds at worst for one to switch magazines on a rifle. For a trained soldier, let alone a Hunter, a quick magazine switch is trivial. That's the most minimum of "inefficient", if we can call it that.

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3-Maiden Powers are magic, not something you can buy or are innately capable of using, they are irrelevant to all this. They are a special case, completely different from normals who need Dust to do even remotely the same as them.

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4-That is perfectly fitting, improves the weapon in a way, and isn't quite replicated by Dust (Using fire would set the weapon ablaze instead of just heating it up). I give it a thumbs-up.