While I understand that, I don't like passive boosts like that. I understand why you'd want it, but how can you defend against a Forbidden rank Earth technique passively boosted by 20 and then boosted by some other boost like...I dunno... Sage mode or something? How can you, without YY, ST, etc defend from a 150 damage Earth technique? With a Forbidden rank Lightning? Ok. If you don't have it? Die?Tbh, i always thought that something cool would be, a boost to an element or kg for a spec. Like +20 damage for that. Like we see with a lot of cannon characters. I know samurai in their rules get it for Kenjutsu, which is great. But say you wanted to specialise in wind. Yes you can go apex handseal, but would be cool to have your extra spec as a boost to your elemental affinity, to fully streamline your bio, as reflected with cannon characters. For example, how Onooki gets +20 to earth.
Just a penny for a thought to bridge the gap. Of course you'd have to apply something like: "Needs at least two specs in the chose element/skill" to warrant the buff, and show you're dedicated to the ability...
The problem with boosts or the problem I always had with them is how they can stack to a point where it can easily get out of hand which I feel is a bad idea.
Now, if the passive boost was say... all Earth techs A-Rank and bellow gain are upped by a rank? so a B-Rank becomes A-Rank? By default? That makes more sense to me. And it would need to be up to A-Rank. Otherwise, you'll have the whole "boosting war" type battle. Those who win are those who can boost their techniques higher.