Talk:Bending arts/@comment-24.86.174.110-20120718184824/@comment-65.30.139.112-20120721084859

Personally, I think waterbending is too over powered in itself, though only a select amount of waterbenders are included, they have the ability to bloodbend (Having the ability to control numerous other benders) which of course is insanely powerful, and healing which is powerful on the other end of the spectrum where as numerous times through both series firebenders pelt others with flames, occasionally skiming them, but instead of lighting them on fire (Which makes complete sense seeing as how cloth and materials of that sort are so common) or having their skin charred to death, it's like fire bending has no power unless it strikes someone completely, and even then no because where someone would usally run around in flames screaming, they just brush it off and go on, plus where a bloodbender needs only to place his thumbs on a forehead to block bending, an avatar has to learn a rare energy bending skill and blast epic beams of light out of peoples orifaces at great cost to himself just to un-block it. If some waterbenders can bloodbend, I think it would should be possible for an earthbender to control all minerals, if not just metal in addition to rocks, for they're both in the earth, they both have the same "personality" traits of each other, metal is just really rocks proccesed in the earth to for ore, it makes no sense why they can't fully metalbend.