Talk:Amet Revfold/@comment-4773581-20131225025430/@comment-8182065-20131225055116

Not entirely. I'm thinking of it more along the ways of it as a required course needed to graduate (think like highschool and credits), where at least the credits for the intro class (or a certain amount of credits in the Forging category) is necessary to move on to Beacon. And they can just make the weapons, they don't have to train with them if they don't want to. Of course the material will have to be tested out, as they're not masters at the skill, but it probably won't be the first thing they pick up when sparring class comes up.

I don't even see it as that extreme and that example is a bit off; saying "why would someone play basketball when they want to be a professional soccer player?" would be a lot closer. True you spend your time doing one thing, but it's not like forging would take up the majority of learning in the semester, keeping you from doing certain other things (if that was the case, then going to Sanctum would be a better option). If they decide to go to Beacon afterwards, which these students most likely would, then of course Signal would have other classes that have equal or higher priority to the forging class; the goal for these schools is to train Hunters and Huntresses, not blacksmiths.