Healers, will the VIT adjustment for tanks hurt Dark Knights somewhat?

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Originally Posted by Pells

(...) Benediction will heal their max HP minus 1.

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According to Fallens screenshot she got 6174/6174 hp and you can see the debuff msg " - Walking Dead" in the middle of the screen... so your statement seems just to be wrong... o.O

Benediction =/= max hp -1
Benediction = max hp

or did i miss something?...

No that's it
Benediction heal your max HP in the most simpliest way
You will always overheal at least 1 hp

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Originally Posted by Neela

According to Fallens screenshot she got 6174/6174 hp and you can see the debuff msg " - Walking Dead" in the middle of the screen... so your statement seems just to be wrong... o.O

Benediction =/= max hp -1
Benediction = max hp

or did i miss something?...

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This was actually changed in one of the recent patches, I believe somewhere in between 3.1 and 2? It's in patch notes, but I don't want to dig through them at this moment, though I do remember celebrating about it. Originally when HW was released Benediction wouldn't work for living dead if the DRK allowed the first server regen tick to go off first, and you'd have to follow it up with another heal even though they would be at full life. They made it so that when benediction is used it overheals by an additional bit of HP to prevent this.

ah okay i see, no need to be confused anymore than :3

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Originally Posted by LegoTechnic

I actually did a lot of testing with a DRK beforehand, and my general result was that if I didn't use lustrate and only depended on physick + fairy embrace then most of the time the tank would die. The exceptions were generally due to crit physick, and these were also conditions where I started casting immediately after the debuff popped on, as opposed to pre-casting before the debuff. Any cycle I used a lustrate though ended in a healed tank.

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Have you tried with an ET Adlo? Do you think that'll relieve the necessity for a lustrate?

Good to know that's how Benediction rolls. Thanks for the test. :)

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Originally Posted by Pells

Any overhealing does not count for Living Dead. So Benediction will heal their max HP minus 1.

Note that if the tank doesn't take any damage after LD triggers, you won't be able to heal that 1 leftover HP with any spell and they'll die when the time runs out. For scholars, this makes Adloquium a poor choice to use.

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This is so incorrect...

To put this in context, know I've raided savage with a white mage and dark knight, and part of our strategy was to benediction off living dead for one of the tank busters. So I've seen benediction flat out remove the living dead debuff a countless amount of times. It's literally impossible for living dead to kill you if benediction has been cast properly.

As someone who plays DRK in my raid group, I can vouch for this from the tank side. Benediction does indeed work if I need to use Living Dead.

I can also say that as someone who never went in for the STR tank trend that I don't think this is going to be a major issue the reason being is that I find that compared to our other tank, I rarely need to use my last resort ability. Most runs I never need to activate living dead, so I would expect that the stress of this ability going off for jobs like SCH would actually lessen rather than being more. Consider than your DRK is going to go up about 5-6k HP and the chances that they will need to use this ability go down dramatically.

To solve all these benediction doubts. Benediction did not work on living dead on release, it was only after some weeks after on alexander release (3.01) that benediction got tweaked to fully work with living dead.

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An issue with the dark knight action "Living Dead" wherein the "Walking Dead" effect could not be removed.

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If my Walking Dead is up I will always make sure to use Convalesence for the increased heals. Walking Dead is removed when 100% of you Max HP is healed. You can still sit at 50% HP and Walking Dead will fall off as long as the healer has healed 211500 points of HP during the period of walking dead being up.