Thread:Saris Khan/@comment-24384232-20141211031559/@comment-3403804-20141212133541

Probably misunderstanding on everyone's part, it's dreadfully common on message walls, part of why I prefer Chatango. Anyway, to make sure there's no further misunderstandings, I'm gonna use Kazuya to explain a few things about specialized Kido Masters.

Kazuya is an offensively-oriented dual-skill character. He has no knowledge of Hakuda, and is only passable at Swordsmanship. But he's great at both Kido and Hoho. His strength, as a Kido Specialist lies in the ability to fabricate dangerous situations, traps and obstacles, he also possesses tremendous destructive potential. But the weaknesses of Kido still remain.

Even if he can use Kido with the ease and simplicity of a swordsman swinging a sword, there's still the fact that Kido draws upon his own energies, which while very tempered and fuelled by energy drawn from his surroundings is still finite. It's also slower, much slower, although he can quickly string together a chain of spells, a zanjutsu or hakuda specialist would likely be able to strike him at LEAST five times for each spell he casts. This is why he and other Kido Specialists have wards, a ward is a protective spell applied before combat, it's purpose is to defend against attacks pre-emptively.

If an attack strikes these, the damage is absorbed but the ward is weakened or broken depending on the strength of the attack. I always have a predetermined number of wards, which I share with my roleplaying partner, a fight against a Kido Specialist is a battle or survival and attrition and it plays out very differently from a battle between a standard Shinigami and a standard Shinigami. Which I think is the strength of it, it provides an alternate battle. Because Kazuya relies so heavily on his wards and protective spells to defend himself, he'd be in deep trouble if his wards were broken sooner than he anticipated, which is often the case when fighting speed-based opponents.

Let's take your Espada as an example. Due to his focus on excessive speed in his attacks, he'd fare well against Kazuya due to a type-advantage. Even without his Ressurecciòn, which only adds to his advantages, Voldan would be capable of destroying several wards at once in one fell swoop, while also having the speed to evade the powerful spells thrown his way. This would prevent Kazuya from setting the pace himself and likely have a profound effect on the way he uses his magic.

It should also be noted that Battle-Mages like Kazuya only rarely use high-ranking spells, most of his spells would range into the thirties or early forties. Spamming spells in the nineties would be ridiculously tiresome, troublesome and inefficient. Instead, he'd develop diluted versions of high level spells and play around with those instead. As low-level spells are often very easy and simple to cast repeatedly. These mastered low-level spells would be powerful enough to kill his opposition of course, but they'd likely not be able to do so instantly, and while they would probably wreak havoc on the surrounding environment, they wouldn't shatter any galaxies or worlds anytime soon.