DR Cap

I forgot about the Knuckles, Gloves, and soul ring--I guess I hadn't considered the stuff that isnt openly available. That being said, the only way to curb that would be adding the max of +1.5 DR to Advanced techniques like previously proposed--if you make a hard cap of, say, 8 or 9, that's still a huge issue for Flame Shield in particular. I like the idea of changing Flame Shield to defensive only (though like you pointed out, a Flame Shield above 5 or 6 is kind of an issue by itself and you can still get it to that point even if its defensive).

I feel like Flame shield might need it's own thread, since you cant really balance both regular techniques and Flame shield simultaneously--you'd need a dedicated thread for it by itself to properly balance at this point. I only really brought up Time Freeze because this was addressing techniques in general.

That being said, I'm not really sure what the correct answer is here. I suppose like Damage Reduction and Ki Reduction, a cap on DR increases in some form might be necessary. What if we made a cap for attacks, but specifically annotated that undodgeable, AoE, and multi-target techniques cannot have their DR boosted by anything? Would that really change anything?