I've not been playing this game for too long but it seems the "H34L0R syndrome" has been around for a long time. People expect things from Defenders and hence now also from Corruptors that are really hold-overs from other games (and they're going to expect things from Corruptors that are hold-overs from Defenders). On the other hand, I'm coming more and more to the view that there's no such thing as a bad build, only bad tactics.
Personally I'm with PhroX on the healing/buffing balance issue - I think skipping the buffs/debuffs is missing the potential of the AT. But I've played with good "h34l0rs" and been very happy with their work. The Corruptor has a wide range of possible builds and I hope we're going to see the full stretch in the game. After all it covers the Blaster and Defender "slots" in CoV (if you want to look at it that way) so we should expect a lot of different approaches from players.
The main problem with "H34L0R syndrome" for me is the drive to conformity - the demand that every Corruptor/Defender H34LZ to the exclusion of all else - and the main cause of that drive seems to be simple ignorance that there are alternatives. Hopefully discussions like this can shed a little light on that particular black hole, but mainly we need to get out there and show the world!
Really, this is plea for variety - let the healer heal, the buffer buff and the bubbler bubble. Let the blaster blast even. I know you're all doing it wrong except me but that's my problem, not yours
Not sure where I thought I was going with that but that's my two penn'orth for you.
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Moonlit and Nite-mare - Dark/Dark on both sides of the law.
