Except the entirety of this RP is built around the notion that these things will be used for PvP-style conflict in one way or another; be it in the Arena, or being used against Staff-managed NPCs in the NW through missions or raids. One way or another, having the larger-scale techniques and abilities is bound to want and require the user to have some understanding of how it works (and how the combat system works as a whole) before they can be given the means to use it and more than likely in an inappropriate way.
Don't get me wrong, I wholly understand your perspective and presumably your frustration; I'm very much the same in that I have very little experience with the combat system here, nor do I feel the motivation or desire to engage in it even if I felt confident in my abilities. I'm currently (and have been almost since I joined last year) vying for the CoT character trait/ability. Not because I want their boosts, not because I want their techniques or abilities. Literally, only because their allowed appearance descriptiveness benefits the appearance of a character I want to make, and nothing more. Horns, bony-like body, dark skin, abnormally tall and large. But I'm having to undergo the same tests and prerequisites that anyone else would have to go through to get only that out of the trait I'm wanting to have. A part of me wishes I could still just buy it with Kumi, but at the same time, it also gives me the opportunity to earn something that would have otherwise been super expensive (25,000 Kumi) while using that same amount to get other things that don't require tests, like Advanced Fuinjutsu, any of the Advanced Ninjutsu, Kinjutsu, etc. So it's something of a silverlining that's worth considering, at least for myself.
