Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20150706220753/@comment-25588729-20150822181042

Phantomlink959 wrote: alright, for one thing, it wouldn't detonate, that impies an explosion of some scale, they would combust. i assume you chose the word detonate because of the name you gave it. The name is somewhat misleading, yes, but as part of her arsenal, she also uses 'dry bombs' - compact powder spheres that she uses her semblance to detonate remotely.

this is the shitiest pyrokinesis i have EVER seen. seriously. Admittedly, that does sting a little. However, I'm quite willing to put to use any constructive criticism you have in mind.

Or, instead of attaching a semblance with limited range and/or physical contact t o a bullet, you can use incendiary bullets. Point, granted her image/motif is supposed to be that of a multi-faceted bounty hunter with an overarching association with fire.

I'm going to assume these 'trippwires' are directly connected to her somehow, otherwise i'm going t say she probably couldn't use them to extend her semblances range. Yes. these tripwires are wrapped around the hilts of her weapons. Alternatively, the 'physical-contact' caveat could be removed and instead by replaced by a 'within a finite radius' caveat, with the semblance's effectiveness decreasing with range?

considering the semblance skips heating up and goes straight to ignition, the air wouldn't heat up. it would have to be burning hot, which is insanly dangrou, and thus not a good idea. A logical fallacy on my part. Duly noted.

That's a pet peeve of mine (and admittedly i used it on a semblance at one point myself) but dust is a literal elemental effect, not the traditional magical elemental effect that is used by other series. since it is a literal, not a figurtive lelement, it would not do things like augment physical abilities, unless it is something that can be done by the raw element, such as using wind to propel yourself, or earth to physically reinforce your body. lightning would not improve your reflexes or visual accuity, and fire, regardless of the semblance, would not extend the effective range. Alright. So this addresses my spin on VedranThell's semblance as well. I suppose I ought to just keep in mind what happened when Blake used that dust attachment to her Gambol Shroud - her semblance literally became that of the corresponding dust element used.

I guess Weiss is just able to make different glyphs whose abilities are influenced by dust usage, making her a different case altogether? Or is there something in this rationale that I'm still missing?

tl;dr:

- aside from some faulty logic in describing my fire-based 'Detonate' semblance, what traits seem to be the most deplorable? The 'physical contact' limit, mistaken interaction with dust? Other traits?

- I need to treat dust applications in semblances as literal manifestations of said dust element.

ACWeapons wrote: @Phantomlink: That pretty much sums up a lot of problems. By the way, wouldn't the amount of energy needed to make objects combustible without any ignition be very high? You're the expert on the science out of all of us here at the moment.

@TestPilotVG: Also, doesn't Cinder have combustion abilities as part of her pyrokinetic abilities?

In my opinion, some reasonable Dust augmentations for a combustion ability might be incendiary explosion for fire, air vacuum for wind, freeze for ice, and so on. Another good point. The amount of the user's raw aura that for the use of a combustion-based semblance could be its primary weakness? Granted, if we apply such logic to other characters such as Pyrrha, wouldn't an extensive amount of aura be needed to not only exert a magnetic field, but reverse polarity at will (ad infinum) as well as minutely direct the resultant vectors of any metallic objects she chooses to affect? And yes, combustion definitely seems to be a subset within Cinder's pyrokinesis. I actually wanted this OC of mine to have a minor connection to Cinder (perhaps a former protege of hers?), but I also consciously nerfed my OC's semblance for the sake of balance.