Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4010415-20170717151617/@comment-4010415-20170718210714

PisceanWaterbender wrote: The problem is, both of those Dust types seem to be very...useless, in comparison to most other types. Especially water. Like, I get Earth dust increasing defense, but how would one use Water Dust aside from combining types or just shooting it out at high pressure like a fire hose? And Earth seems like one of those very situational things...like if your Semblance creates barriers, adding earth would make it rock-hard and near impenetrable. I don't really see how well it'd work with glyphs, unless it's literally just a carbon-copy of a radial Ice Dust effect like Weiss did here.

And Chish, I wasn't necessarily declaring what she has, I was pondering what it would be if both swords have a crystal, which I haven't looked for yet. I'm pretty sure we had Dust color conversations before like that. I specifically said "If both did have one." My bad, I misread.

Also, hmm...

Throw things into the air with rock pillars, make a rock dome to trap an enemy, make a rock wall to defend yourself, make a rock platform to give yourself the high ground, hell maybe even litter the battleground with rock formations to give yourself hiding spots.