New player, feedback and stuff

[bricks]

It may be obvious, but it's better to open with Drain on an enemy that will only take a few hits to kill, since the Vim gained is proportional to the damage dealt (which might mean less Vim recovered if you over-kill) and there is no bonus Vim recovery for getting the killing blow. Plus, in a longer fight, it means Drain will be available again sooner.

I found I had the most Vim management issues when I needed to use a lot of AoE talents (Sandworm Queen was rough). The more powerful talents use too much Vim, IMO, to be useful at low levels. I can only justify using, for example, Bone Shield on my reavers when I've completely drained my Vim and I need to survive a few hits.

[DarthImbreedous]

After what I was told here I've been testing a bit more throughly vimsense (I don't have a decent shield rune but I have a somewhat high level barrier, thanks to Cornacs and their free category point) and it DOES provide quite a bit of vim. I'm not saying I've fully changed my mind about corruptors (you have to be willing to withstand a pummeling in order to leech, which can be bad) but I admit it's not as unplayable as I thought

[Toxic_Chicken]

Corrupters are easy. I'm not sure how you're having such a hard time managing vim.

[DarthImbreedous]

*shrug* maybe it was common early game difficulty combined with being too used to the near-flawless stroll I had been taking with my skeleton alchie, which can crush adventurer parties with ridiculous ease

[DarthImbreedous]

I formally withdraw most of my former objections. I wasn't putting enough emphasis on Drain. With 4 points I'm getting enough vim for most of my spells. And, considering that, with careful use of blood boil and domination hex, I'm successfully vaporizing adventurer parties, I can't really say corruptors are underpowered...

EDIT: till an archer mauled me. Damnit.

Still, I successfully nuked about ten parties full of spellcasters and warriors. Despite the fact that I had gotten unlucky with my escort quests (really, I've tried FIVE corrupter characters, and the three last ones haven't gotten any before old forest. This sucks bad, I like to do cornacs in order to get the anorithil tree ASAP