Living Dead and other DRK QOL in 5.3

[MariaArvana]

The main problems I have with living dead are that it's (a) a needlessly complicated effect that's hard to track, and (b) too heavily reliant on your healers dumping all their powerful cds on you afterwards due to drk's lack of on-demand sustain.

How's this for a simplification of the effect?

Living Dead
- Instant cast, 300s recast
- Grants the effect of Living Dead for 10 seconds (or 8, or 12, or 14, whatever's balanced now that it's not "layered"). While under the effect of Living Dead, your health value may be reduced to negative values without it resulting in your death. If your health is at zero or lower when Living Dead expires, you are immediately killed. Certain attacks may still result in your death while under the effect of Living Dead. (referring to the usual invuln-resistant stuff like enrages)

This would be a buff to casual content, but a hard nerf for high end content where balancing actually matters and LD is more likely to be used, since it means the DRK is 100% dead in certain situations without Benediction. An example:

In Alex Ultimate, He does Divine Punishment, followed by 3 Divine spear tank busters. Divine Punishment leaves a magic vuln+ on the tank that makes them take hundreds of thousands of damage from the subsequent Divine Spears.
Currently, you can easily have a DRK handle the divine punishment + following Divine spears using LD even without Benediction, as the healers can just heal you in the divine spears and then dump an OGCD or powerful tool into you to top off that remaining amount you need to be healed after the 3rd.

The issue with your redux, is that the DRK's HP would plummet to -900,000+ and be impossible to heal without benediction, meaning DRK can no longer handle many of the things the other tanks can with their Invulns. A more recent Example is Shiva, where one of the popular strategies is to have tanks Invuln Morn Afahs near the end of the fight, which do 600,000+ to a single target, also meaning the DRK cannot invuln it using your redux without effectively being sentenced to death without Benediction.

All LD needs is either a way for DRK to lifesteal/self heal more effectively to help contribute (like the 2nd idea you pitched), or a modifier on walking dead that increases the potency of the healing the DRK receives during its duration so that a single healer can reasonably manage it.