Quote Originally Posted by DWolfwood View Post
Yeah, but your stance is still one of an elitist.

Can Living Dead be dealt with by a healer easily without Benediction? Sure, theoretically.

But you really can't say you've played DRK enough if you haven't seen a healer fail to deal with your Walking Dead status countless times. I've seen even great healers mess it up when tons of other factors start adding up like having to raise others and burn through all your CDs to save a party.

It's just self-righteous arrogance to stand on the hill of "it's easy to deal with Living Dead." There's literally no need for the ability to be the way it is. It doesn't give the job any kind of sense of identity nor does it make playing the job challenging.

It merely shifts that challenge onto a healer, which is totally at odds with their approach of trying to make the game more accessible.

An ability shouldn't even be such a hot topic.
Guess what chief, everyone makes mistakes. Even the best of players fuck up sometimes. We're all human, it happens. You could have the greatest healer in the world and they would still, rarely, fail to clear LD just because they either screwed up or simply brain farted for a moment and didn't pay attention. That doesn't mean that LD is suddenly garbage or whatever other crap people in this thread may try to claim it is. Because, yes actually, it is easy to deal with Living Dead. Just because half of the community doesn't understand the ability doesn't mean it's bad, it means that those players don't understand it. On a side note, there is no 'theoretically' in "can LD be dealt with by a healer easily without Bene". The answer is a simple 'yes' and nothing more.