How would a SCH heal Living Dead?

[Erakir]

So first off, yeah I agree LD is stupid right now. It shouldn't have stayed as it is given the difference in healing potency vs max HP in this expansion. I wouldn't put it *any* higher than 75% DRK HP, and do feel something around 50% is enough of a drawback for the healer. In my mind, a healer out of CDs should still be able to make it work spamming Cure 2/Benefic 2, maybe with a slight difference to SCH since they have to deal with not being able to Adlo spam for raw HP. There are many ways they could tinker with LD to make it still need attention to heal but make it less painful outside of benediction.

That said, if I had to, this would be my general approach-

First, Reci and Excog are bonuses if they're up. They're used frequently in normal dungeon gameplay. I won't make the assumption either of them are available as such.

Dissipation, though - despite having some optimal usage to squeeze out more AF, it's something you can reasonably keep in your back pocket for a DRK. If we're assuming WHMs save bene for it, it's not unreasonable to save dissipation for this specific scenario. I would also try my hardest to keep 1 charge of aetherflow until ~5s on AF's cooldown.

Lustrate -> Dissipation -> Physick -> ET -> Swiftcast -> Adlo -> lustrate lustrate -> physick -> lustrate

2400 (lustrates) + [400 + 675 + 400]*1.2 = 4170 potency with no crits. Without 4th lustrate, 3570, on the cusp of 3600 and may be enough with generous rolls on the heals.

The problem here is the 10s timer. It's a fair amount of hand-twisty fast casts, and in my testing on my sch with a 2.42s GCD I'm able to do that in somewhere around 9s. Maybe 9.25. That IS under the 10s timer, but ... It's very tight and does not give much time for reactions. You are not going to lustrate at t=0.00. You're just not. Heaven help you if you gotta move. If you can precast a physick that helps, if you have WD or SS HoT going they'll both help a tad. If you're able to fey illumination right before, that helps. Reci helps a bunch. Any healing from the DRK will help, super potion included. On-point-RDMs, if present, will help. Lots of little things that can help, but you won't necessarily have.

It's not easy, I don't know how consistent I could be in the heat of the moment, and to me LD is really dumb in its current incarnation, but that'd be a rough plan I'd try to stick by. This is a LOT to ask for in a 4 man. Outside of benediction it's a pain for everyone in a 4-man if they're not saving multiple CDs :/

Edit: Alternatively, IF you save Reci and dissipation, it becomes pretty feasible, as Reci ET Dissipated Adlo is 1890 potency and can be precast unlike the setup above. Adlo, physick, triple lustrate then nets you 4170 - or Adlo, physick, lustrate, physick, lustrate for 4050 leaving you with an AF charge at the cost of being closer to the 10s limit. Yes it sucks to not use Reci for other purposes, but I find this setup much safer without burning swiftcast. It also doesn't necessitate holding onto any AF charges.