What's the point of defeating the Tormentor?

[Kiuh]

From what I understood, after you take a lot of damage trying to beat a super regenerating near-immortal cube, be it by yourself or with the strongest teammates having to come together to take that down, only the WEAKEST player on your team gets the shard, and NOT the strong people who put a whole lot of effort into beating that thing?
It reflects a load of damage, regenerates more health than a pudge who was eating midlane afk Luna for breakfast, lunch, brunch and dinner for 40 minutes, and all that for you to give a tiny boost for the most useless teammate on your team?
Would be a ton better if it dropped the shard on the floor and let the team decide who grabs it.

[DoubleOHHH7]

The point is to develop your team. Not a self centered single player...

[Mirror]

team based goal for a team based game...

your supports and other less farmed heroes get 1400 gold item for free. I dont understand the question you are making. we trying to bring people up, not keep them down.

[Bianco Angelo]

Capitalist?

[Artek [General]]

It removes a weakness from your team composition instead of pushing your strongest traits further.

The weakest player is the hero who's behind on both gold and exp, so a hero who doesn't land a hard impact in a fight or doesn't have time (or right) to farm himself an upgrade.

Tormentor fixes that and gives them a free 1300 hold upgrade. So instead of increasing your highs - it cuts your lows. That is very useful too - lots of supports become much stronger with a new spell.

[Dark Sun Gwyndolin]

Most supports benefit more from their Shard than Carries do.