Burning damage? No. Waterbenders can't control the temperature of their water. (or in this case steam) They can't make this steam extremely hot, hot enough to leave a burn on someone, and I doubt that the steam they produce is hot enough to burn someone.
And lets make sure people can disabled them, via in the options menu with optifine install. The Only particles I know of are the default airbending ones that aren't turn offable, but adding those to steambending won't differ from airbending. '_'
I don't think that it is proved...
I don't know. I just don't think waterbenders can alter the temperature to the extreme point of burning someone with steam.
That's why they call it element of changePicture this:
A waterbending making smoke (most likely airbending particles) and then it blinds people and burns them. This is like a water - fire - air - chi move combined in 1
No, ripping the water out of someone.
How about instead of doing an argument over this topic which has been debated in other topics, how about you show me a scene of a waterbender heating water by themselves.
Um....
Im not sure if you are trying to prove that steam bending isn't possible or you dont know much about phase changing.
I was just stating that we have seen waterbenders manipulating the state of water in two ways. I haven't said steambending wasn't possible neither I said it was a true fact waterbenders could manipulate temperature. I only used facts seen in the show to prove that waterbenders manipulating temperature in the show is very ambiguous.
This proves that they can change the state of water by manipulating its temperature, its pressure, and, probably, both at the same time.
Okay, but my point is that the steam shouldn't deal burn damage. Sorry to tell you, but that feature sounds like something the major waterbending community wants, but really isn't needed. Addon? Sure. But in the Core? No. I don't see how exactly it'd improve waterbending as a whole.
I agree in saying this isn't needed, but steambending should really get some consideration in being implemented or not. Waterbenders have water, ice, plants, healing and blood. Steambending is the only sub-style to be implemented.
This ability or Steambending in general?
The ability to burn people- seems unnecessary. I think the idea of potentially freezing people is cool though.
(I see what did you did there.)
The main problem I see with steambending is the particles- I think a large cloud of air particles could do, however in 1.8, particles lag some people considerably. I think the blindness effect would look strange, though that's just me.