Why I love Dark Knight...

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Originally Posted by Claire_Pendragon

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LIVING DEAD
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the actual effective "invulnerability" of its effect isnt actually 20seconds. Nor is it actually 10 seconds.
If I activate it 9 seconds before the tank buster, those 9 seconds didnt need to be spent healing, regardless of which tank pops their invulnerability on the last second tank buster.
If the tank buster comes early, then the remaining seconds disappear, as they now start the next phase of living dead, which requires you to heal them up to full in the next 10 seconds.
If you heal them to full at the very 1st second, then their invulnerability ends.
So technically it "can" be a literal 1 second duration invulnerability.

You're not wrong! This is why I mentioned that Living Dead requires more coordination. There are very few fights that have unscripted tank busters anyways, the only ones I can think of being Ramuh EX and more recently A9S, in which more than "unscripted" the TBs, if you wanna call them that, are powerful and frequent cleaves. Throughout the other fights, practice will let you know exactly when a tank buster or big hit is coming, so if you pop Living Dead 8-7 seconds before the tank buster hits and you communicate about it with your healer, they can get into cleric and let you take chip damage that won't really matter for the TB anyways, since you'll be invulnerable to death.

The 20 seconds extension is a mathematical stretch, yes. In reality, the most uptime you'll get out of Living Dead is probably around 15-16 seconds, which is still quite lengthy in MMO-land!