Quote Originally Posted by Cabalabob View Post
Situations where you have no healer are becoming more common and in these situations living dead might as well not exist because you can't use it without dying unlike a WAR or PLD.
*AHEM* That's actually false. Palace of the Dead was intended to be done with basically any party regardless, it just comes to the point that if you have other crosskills available and use them properly you can have an easier time in 40F onward. Generally, there is no real situation where having no healer is common unless you want to refer to A4/A4S which have a mechanic included to remove the OT and one random DPS. Same goes for A7/A7S with jails for a Tank and DPS.

Living Dead exists for the purpose of allowing YOU to survive for 10s, and is the longest Undying ability in the game(10s vs. Holmgang's 6s) at the cost of having to recover HP equal to the DRK's Max HP, which makes WHM normally a requirement(if the SCH and AST are coordinated they can pull it off) mainly due to saving the hassle with a single use of Benediction.

Frontlines in general is, well, Frontlines. Nothing you can really do it about it there if people always choose SMN.