[firehawk11]

Just build SAN on your corrupted. Start playing a race because you like their lore.

I've yet to see a compelling lore reason why corrupted races are worse at hurting things with sound magic than others. You can play whatever race you want for RP but that shouldn't mean you have to suffer mechanically for it.

I understand why the stat itself hurts Corrupted Races but the real problem here is the fact Elements (Elemental Attack) are tied to two mechanics, either a core stat or Luminary Elements but since not everything can be Luminary Element'd you cause a problem with trying to build some races as some things.

Yes, I agree some races will always be better then others but nothing should actively hinder your ability to play something compared to other combinations. A Dark Bard Corrupted should be borderline as effective as a Human minus the extra couple skill points, or as good as a Lich deciding to go Melee and not ranged. I don't see any other combination that comes to mid that is actively weakening your race/class combination outside playing a Dullahan dodge build but even that could be good.

As for homogenization, it doesn't do such a thing since it should be the expression of freedom. I would not like nor like to be made to change my race from a corrupted (Except Theno) if I want to play as a Corrupted Dark Bard since if I were to get into any PvP situations I'd be actively weaker therefor not having the same level of fun for wanting to try the newest class that Dev made for his game. That's the real point I am trying to make here.

If in PvE you can 100% get away with losing your racials and pretend you are a human with high Sanctity but at the point why not just be human? This is the biggest issue with being RP *Lore) vs Mechanics, one should be allowed even if Lore says otherwise since why lock off a small percentile of the community off from some content. Yes you could argue races do the same thing but why do any of us play races outside human? Do we like their lore or their abilities more and if it is the latter then why restrict classes under that same rule? Can you imagine if only Glykins, Phenex, Lispool humans got more bang for their buck for building Faith? What if making a Curate/Summoner Vampire actively weakened you by removing your essence pool if you built Faith, forcing you to either go grey mist or be weaker in all cases if you don't?

Some of us actively like the combat side of the SL2 and would like one group of races not to be murdered in their uniqueness for wanting to use a single class. (I'd like other examples of Races/Groups of races being actively bad for 1 or more classes, if anyone would like to give examples of such, please & thank you.)