[MA] Technique Mastery for DWA?

[vierasmarius]

Originally Posted by the_matrix_walker

Sure DWA would become your default if you improved it to Skill (or higher), but I think that's true of any widely useful technique you've bought up to skill (or higher).

And it does have it's drawbacks, no benefit in resisting feints, or bonus to parry, doesn't help with skill on added attacks on Extra Attack or AoA, and you loose the benefit if you drop a weapon or are disarmed... so that's why I thought it was at least possibly legal.

I'm with you there. It seems bizarre to me that DWA would be barred as a "core use of skill", when techniques like Kicking are explicitly allowed.