Walking dead should be a gift not a curse

[Cabalabob]

Not sure if you're trolling or not, but you're basically taking our death-cheat ability and turning it into the most powerful offensive cooldown in the game, bar none. There's no basis for it and it would outdo both HG and Holmgang by lightyears, and create more balance issues than it fixes.

Most powerful offensive in the game?? Hardly, 50% may sound great but it comes at the risk of killing you. With grit on (and if you want to survive without a healer like a WAR or PLD could you'll need grit on) that's only a 30% damage increase, the same as fight or flight with only 1/3 of the duration. And let's not even get into triple berserk fell cleaves.

The basis for it is simple. If it was just a 10 second holmgang with a 5 min recast then fine. But it's not, it's a 10 second holmgang with a 5 min recast that kills you if someone else doesn't intervene. This suggestion makes that extra baggage on living dead have a benefit and also gives you a way to counter it without a healer's intervention, something neither of the other tanks need with their moves.