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This is what happens when you play the game correctly.
The Way of the Gear was designed by the Coalition of Ordered Governments to help their elite fighting force (the gears) overcome what were ordinarily deemed inhumanely impossible obstacles (notably the post apocalyptic, locust riddled land scape).
Ordinarily, this discipline would be deemed 'wild and without focus' by any one of the original founders of the temple of nine swords - in reality, it helps combine typical squad fighting tactics and communication into something so cohesive, that the ideal initiate becomes a self sufficient killing machine in the name of the COG.
Side effects of training in such a discipline include the excess of developing a particularly muscular frame (or curvy tones if female), and the desire to do manly things like growing beards (doesn't necessarily apply to women, although it can *shudders*).