User blog comment:Nice Things/The Difference between PvE and PvP and what People seem to Forget/@comment-24572299-20160204023838

It's a nice blog Jord and I can tell thought went into this but I don't fully agree. While I understand what you are getting at the fact of the matter is that not every hunter is supers specced to fight Grimm. For one it's not even until they get to Beacon that most normal students even fight a Grimm. As Weiss says in the second episode regular Combat Schools don't really get past sparring and practice. Meaning that for the first 4 years before they hit Huntsman Acadamies most students have a lot more experience fighting people than they do Grimm.

Secondly it's how PvP vs PvE works in terms of RWBY. Like you said characters good at PvE would probably transer poorly to PvP. However characters good at PvP tend to be also very good at PvE. Because being good at beating other hunters tends to translate to being good at beating Grimm, guns or no guns. Hunters can be fast, tanky, powerful and a whole host of other adjectives. A character who can reliably deal with those kinds of people probably eats Grimm for breakfast. Also while you examples of Semblances show what is wrong with using those kinds of Semblances against Grimm they are the kinds that are banned by default here so it's slightly misleading. I highly doubt it's on purpose though.

I guess what I'm getting at is that I think a character can be a good Hunter even if they are PvP specced. What I think we agree on is it's bad if they are PvP ''optimized. ''What I mean by that is that everything about them is specifically to fuck over humans at the exclusion on almost anything else. A character who is PvP specced can still be good at killing Grimm and might actually be better at killing Grimm than a few PvE specced characters. PvP optimized characters tend to be shallow and are usually about trying to counter PvP specced characters. I don't think PvE optimized characters are all that hot either as unless they were out in the wilderness fighting Grimm for years no student should be PvE ''optimized. ''Especially since that kind of fighting style in a Combat School would shoot them in the foot as they would not be very good in spars or practices and would as a consequence fall behind.

I...think that was it. Hope this didn't come off as rambling like an idiot.