Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20160319212213/@comment-26397825-20160320052909

She needs some sort of ranged effect, even if she just has a pistol she uses in her off hand. The problem with RWBY is that everyone except Jaune has some sort of ranged and melee effect. In the time it takes for your character to close the distance between herself and her enemies (the White Fang), they have already poured a magazine of bullets into her. She would burn through aura so fast in every fight just trying to get close to the enemy, and the enemy would be able to look at her and tell she's got no ranged effectiveness so they would work to keep the ranged advantage.

And the same problem applies to focusing on using her semblance for combat effectiveness. She'd burn through aura too quickly just trying to get close to them.

Just a separate sidearm she can dual wield for ranged effectiveness, even if she sheathes it for close combat to use her arm as a clawed gauntlet, would make her even just a little bit better off.