Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-108.214.113.232-20151015061142/@comment-27087951-20151117020743

Because it would be too expensive in the long term.

Basically, they use their Aura to prevent their weapons from breaking appart when attacking. Their weapons are tough enough that for the most part, they don't need to use too much Aura when reinforcing them. But bracers don't have that durability and blocking capability, so they need more Aura reinforcing them to block effectively.

Let me try to explain in RPG terms: -You got a sword that can block up to 7 damage, anything beyond that breaks it, and get hit by an attack that causes 10, which would break the sword if you tried blocking with it. So you only use 3 Aura to prevent the sword from breaking.

-You got bracers that can block up to 1 damage, any more and it breaks, and get hit by an attack that causes 10, which would break the bracers if you tried blocking with them, so you use 9 Aura to prevent it from breaking.

The cost would be far too much, too impractical.