Hrm. You have two options re: corruption there. A: you can just be careful about what corruptions you take. Since you probably won't be using SUPER GOD-MODE MASSIVE CORRUPTION abilities, you can just take corruptions that won't effect combat, like finding kittens really obnoxious. Option B I think would be... a lot of the powers are written in a way that with some creativity can be used other than the obvious way. If the abilities you are after are the physical stat boosts, you could do a Trangressor, that didn't receive powers that have anything to do with machines, but just use idk, demonic chemicals that would be toxic to anyone but a transgressor to alter body composition for strength or endurance boosts.
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