Living dead improvement ideas

Hell, you could just remove the healing requirement entirely. Yes, being able to pre-emptively apply it, along with that 10 second duration once activated, would make it better than Holmgang. But considering how every other defensive cooldown of DRK's is the worst in the game amoungst the tanks, I'm pretty sure we can get away with giving DRK one that's in the middle of the road.

One thing.
Make "Walking Dead" status healed by Raise.

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Originally Posted by Reynhart

One thing.
Make "Walking Dead" status healed by Raise.

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Shouldn't it do 99999 damage to you instead?

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Originally Posted by Kiteless

Shouldn't it do 99999 damage to you instead?

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Do heals damage you ? :p

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Originally Posted by Reynhart

Do heals damage you ? :p

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That's a reference to old final fantasy games, where when you had zombie state, heals would be reverse. Raise = Death, etc.

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Originally Posted by Kelg

That's a reference to old final fantasy games, where when you had zombie state, heals would be reverse. Raise = Death, etc.

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I know. But with that same reference, heals would damage you :p

Have healing have no effect while in living dead and make one heal on walking dead take it off that way we actually get use out of it and healers will stop wasting mp when they see our macros.

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Originally Posted by Agrieus

Considering that you can just turn holmgang off whenever you wish

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actually no holmgang's bind cannot be cancelled because it is an enfeeblement and it has killed me plenty of times when used incorrectly.

a great example is twintania progression. holmgang wrong time, twisters come out and boom dead.

so for one, walking dead lasts longer than holmgang. for two, that root can be extremely hazardous. sometimes it's like flying out of the frying pan and into the fire.

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Originally Posted by Giantbane

I don't have a problem with how it works, I do have a problem that it becomes harder to recover from as the tank gears up and gets more HP. Eat food? That's extra hp that needs to be recovered if you use living dead. Doesn't that seem off?

If the amount needed to be recovered were some reasonable, fixed amount of hp based solely on level, that would be great.

I would also really appreciate some easier visual indication to the healers so that they *KNOW* when you're in zombie mode and they know they need to pour on the healing to clear it. If, as was suggested, the HP bar changed color to some obvious sickly green or something like that, that would be great. It would very clearly communicate that something was wrong that the healer needed to fix.

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certainly wouldn't hurt, especially the visual adjustments. but i think making a macro saying you have used it will help a lot.

but really i am mostly addressing complaints about the execution of the ability. i'm not really worried about things like that as it is currently not a problem. eventually, it may be. but i think 10 seconds is enough time to heal a tank to full.