Originally Posted by
CABAL
But if you could take only one: Armor, or HP. What would you take? REEE! ARMOR IS INFERIOR! What I will do when marine with flamer will show up!?
In this situation Hive is cornered. Nothing will help them, besides big amout of FF. But lets just say it's fair fight and that one lurker would make a change. Why isn't he harassing backlines? Marines still have to come on foot to the caves, so it's the perfect opportunity for lurker to take some of the pressure off hive. Mature/elder lurker can easly sneak/run past a squad of marines. He would make more good for the hive by attacking the backlines, that fighting on the front.
Even despite all of that: You described one situation. In that situation this sidegrade is indeed worse, but imagine other situation:
Hive was pushed to the caves and there is heavy fighting. Every drone and its evolutions are helping in defence. Queen orders you as a lurker to harass backlines, becouse marines are getting hurt and they can't evac everyone by medevac. How you are supposed to harass backlines, when there are no weeds around (marines cleared them as they do)? You could take one/two/three marines evacuating, but your wounds would force you to return to caves, to heal.
In this situation, that mutator is better than not having it. Isn't it?