Talk:Dust/@comment-28189972-20170408231502/@comment-4010415-20170408234122

I can see some types being harder to use, especially if you master one type and then try to learn how to use another type that behaves nothing like the type you mastered. Like, if you master ice and then try to learn lava. Ice is solid and rigid and cold, while lava is liquid and gooey and hot. Fire could also be harder to learn after mastering ice, as it spreads quickly and, if not contained and controlled, can spread on its own. With this mentality in mind, maybe ice and earth could actually be easier to master together since they both form solid, rigid manifestations - ice chunks and rocks.

I assume the harder-to-master Dust types are more commonly used in bullet form.

It seems that most Huntsmen and Huntresses don't go through the trouble of extensive Aura training beyond the simple "passive armor" stage, and thus aren't quite as prepared to use and control raw Dust.

Even Weiss uses tricks to make up for her lower control, but she's only a student, so that makes sense. It makes sense that Weiss relies on disturbing powdered Dust by swinging Myrtenaster or using her glyphs to force the Dust to behave in the way she wants. But she has probably gotten better. The control she maintained over that tornado was great. It'd be nice to see if she has gotten any better at fire Dust, but she favors ice so much. Though, favoring ice has led to her getting a lot better at it. She didn't even need glyphs to make that ice fist or the ice ramp in the tournament fight (the black glyph was for disorienting Nadir and Bolin and keeping them in place and probably used gravity Dust).