Was bored and had thoughts about LD

[Cabalabob]

The problem with LD is just that it requires input from someone else other than the user, the DRK has no way to heal through walking dead on their own it HAS to be the healer who potentially doesn’t even know what living dead is since levelling DRK is completely optional to playing healer. This game is not designed around moves like this.

From level 1-50 there are NO moves that require you know another jobs kit and in the entire game there are only 2, divine veil and living dead. Nothing about this game suggests that you need to learn the move set of another job. In divine veil’s case it’s not so bad, the PLD can proc it themselves if need be and if it’s not proced you’re just wasting the CD and not getting a shield, no big deal. In the case of living dead it is much more severe, your main tank DIES.

That is what the issue with living dead boils down to, so the simplest fix would just be to make it work like holmgang, can’t drop below 1hp for 10 seconds (the trade off being the extra minute on the cooldown).

Yes homogenisation blah blah blah blah.... But frankly I’d rather have a move that’s the same and does a decent job than a move that’s unique and is terrible. They can figure out how to make it unique in the future while actually making it a good move, but until that day comes, give us something functional.

Edit: as for my personal thoughts on what living dead could be. Living dead: 5min cooldown, 15s duration. For the duration the user’s HP cannot drop below 1. The user can’t be healed by outside sources (the healer, potions). All the user’s weaponskills restore 100% of damage dealt as HP for the duration. (Stacks with souleater).

And even this idea I recognise is not perfect, in situations where you can’t attack the target you’re putting yourself in a lot of danger by removing the ability to be healed entirely which will leave you at 1 HP when it wears off (ruby weapon comets).