Quote Originally Posted by Lyth View Post
WAR doesn't necessarily need outside assistance after using Holmgang. If you were setting up an 8-WAR clear group, you can just stagger your Holmgang uses and rotate out the tank afterwards, allowing healing from Path and such to tick their health back up. Even in solo play, you can still use Holmgang and follow up with burst healing from things like ToB, Equilibrium, and perhaps even IB/SC chains under IR. Saying that WAR "requires" healing after Holmgang is a bit like the assertion that tanks need outside healing in raid content. All of them generally do, to be sure, but there are workarounds. At the end of the day, you just need to reach some minimum threshold before the next attack.

What makes Living Dead objectively different is that the ability itself kills you. No DRK is capable of outputting their full HP worth of healing in 10 seconds. Nothing short of a prepared healer is going to ensure your survival. You can't use it in an 8-DRK group. You can't use it in solo play. Tanks hate it. Healers hate it. Unlike Holmgang, it generally doesn't provide a recast advantage over Hallowed, so there's nothing to be gained there. Is the 4 second longer duration worth the 2 minute longer recast and death penalty in comparison to Holmgang? Absolutely not.
I had no idea 8-class clears and solo play were the golden standards for judging a class. Learn something new every day.