In canon only The God Of Shinobi had 5 without resorting to hacks, IIRC. It's...fine if we want more magic, I guess, but then mechanics have to be seriously readjusted, because right now it is very much not every jonin that can(and, perhaps more importantly, should) learn 5 elements.
Nah, so did Kakashi. And lot sof others, I'm sure.
Well, than either Kakashi cheated, he is stupid, there is some non-obvious advantage to having so many elements that would balance out the enormous drop in personal power from not putting that XP into skills, or current element skill cost entirely fails to reflect the world.
Remember, Kakashi has the Sharingan, which drastically reduces skill XP costs. Really, the Uchiha should all have five, but for everybody else, there's no real reason to take more than two; you have a primary and a secondary. Your primary is your go-to technique, but if someone hard-counters your primary you switch to your secondary, which hard-counters your opponent's hard-counter to your primary.
I expect it will be something like how Roki works: either Athletics + Syrup Trap Aspect Bonus (3) or Syrup Trap + Athletics Aspect Bonus (also 3).
Recall that some of Kagome's security measures are things like "ensure that the entire field is flat within a tolerance of 1 inch" and "do the special 'Please Don't Let the Creatures From Beyond Spacetime Notice What I'm Doing' butt-wiggle dance". It's possible that Kagome is right and all of these things really do contribute to safety because chakra is weird. It's also possible that he's got some magical thinking going on.
No. There's no reason you couldn't go over 80 but the cost of doing so means that there's probably more efficient things to do.
No. Water Whip will work fine if you don't have a water source, it's just that it will then be a chakra construct and therefore not eligible for draining through. Hōzuki's Mantle is the same. In fact, I can't offhand recall a jutsu we've shown thus far that requires a source of its element.
Without making any specific statements about what is or isn't true in-setting, may I point out that neither of those two are known for their meek and humble natures. Neither are they known for their strict adherence to truth, and humblebrags are a thing.
Citations needed? I am far from an expert on canon, but the only non-Kakashi ninja that I know of who have all 5 elements are epic level. In Kakashi's case it makes perfect sense for him to have all 5 because he wants to be able to steal and use any interesting jutsu he comes across. If you can point to some garden-variety chūnin or jōnin that have all five elements then I'll revise my beliefs on the subject.
Elemental affinities don't work like that -- they are stunts, not skills. You don't level them, you simply buy them.
I believe the proposal is precisely to make affinities into skills, and then have the various individual jutsu be stunts?
I saw it as having to buy the affinity, then level it's "effectiveness"-i.e. how good you are at controlling that kind of chakra bending. Individual jutsu are then bought as stunts.
The QMs have been pretty clear that we do not agree with this idea. You've proposed it several times and I believe @Erolki has also been pushing it but it really hasn't moved us. I understand that you do not agree with our reasoning, but this may be a case where you just need to let it go. Still, I'll try to respond to your specifics.
Disagree. "Throw object" is a single skill that any human can learn. "Do specific piece of magic" is different. Also, as mentioned above, the jutsu does not have the disadvantages that you were claiming for it.
It's really not a matter of personal preference. At all. Not taking counterattack damage is a major advantage. And, again, you don't need to have a water source available -- that's been established multiple times throughout the story.
I don't understand your thinking here well enough to respond to it, so I'll just offer a general "do not agree".
You caught me. I was lying to you.
Fuck it, I'm asking.
Mmn... not sure I agree with the first bit: Chakra Boosting uses a ludicrous amount of chakra relative to the actual cost of the techniques. For it to be WORTH learning a new technique over a current low level one, it would have to be strong enough relative to the chakra cost for there to be no reason to use the weaker one.
