User blog comment:VedranTheII/Pretentious Diaries 1: Are my semblances worthy?/@comment-10380701-20150628005714

Oh yea. I wanted to speak on you with regards to the semblance types. I actually have a less complex variant of the semblance types that you may want to look into.

I only categorize my semblances into five types, Offense, Defense, Utility, Glyph and Elemental.

Offense-type Semblances are non-elemental Semblances that can deal physical damage to their enemies or increases the damage the user deals. (ie, Yang)

Defense-type Semblances are the opposite, supporting the user and maybe even healing them, or increase their defenses (ie, Jaune)

Utility-type Semblances are the more gimmicky types that can be used in a variety of ways, being limited by the cleverness of the user. (ie, Ruby, Blake)

Glyph-type Semblance refers to the semblances often utilized by Dust sorcerers. (As seen so far). Closest thing we have to "magic". (ie, Weiss, Glynda(?), Cinder(?))

Elemental-type Semblances are the types that can manipulate elemental forces. Though this is very redundant thanks to Dust, there ARE some potential types here that aren't confirmed to have Dust counterparts yet. (Plant, Light and Dark manipulation, for example.)

Very rare cases can happen where a semblance can be categorized in two types. That would be Pyrrha's Magneto semblance. Both a Utility and Elemental Semblance.