DRK Change in Patch 3.07

[TouchandFeel]

Yeah, it is amazing how Living Dead doesn't have any of Holmgang's flaws (requiring a target, getting rooted, lasts only 6s, having a slight animation delay, etc.) yet it still manages to be worse!

Living Dead does have an animation delay, same as Hallowed and same as Holmgang.
Holmgang has a shorter duration, but also has a much shorter CD.
The root is a valid negative of Holmgang as is the target requirement in some situations, but Living Dead killing you if you are not healed for your max HP is also a very valid negative.

To me there are a couple things that tips Living Dead into being by far the worst of the Tank anti-death abilities.

First is that it has two separate stages to it and has virtually no visual messaging for the activation of the Walking Dead state or when the kill-you debuff falls off. Right now it is only shown via small buff/debuff icons that can easily get lost in the UI jumble. The visibility of these state changes need to be better messaged by the usage of visual fx, for example when Walking Dead gets activated a large spectral reaper fx appears above the DRK player and disappears when the death timer debuff goes away.

Removing the debuff that kills you also removes the buff and no healer in their right mind would risk waiting until the last second to remove it to try to maximize the uptime, therefore it's 10 seconds of functional uptime (once Walking Dead is activated) is never fully realized. With this in mind, it makes the much longer CD of Living Dead a bit hard to justify. Two possible solutions I see for this. One, keep it as is with the buff going away when the debuff does, but drop the CD to be inline with Holmgang. Two make it so the buff stays for its duration even after the debuff goes away and the CD stays the same (or it could be shortened just a bit imo).