We really need to talk about Living Dead

[NobleWinter]

I'm a Scholar Main and Living Dead is not my favorite ability to put it mildly. If I could just redo the whole skill over Living Dead would cause you to gain Walking Dead status immediately upon execution and last 12 seconds with the benefit of keeping most attacks from killing you. It would also cause your damage to be reduced by 20% since you are a zombie while simultaneously increasing the potency of any healing you receive by 20%. The requirement to be healed for a total of your max hp to remove the effect or death after 12 seconds if not achieved would be much more manageable. It's a window healers could work with in a dungeon that would actually help the DRK stay alive. In Savage you would have to play around the benefit of the invuln compared to the damage lost. Ending it by healing as soon as it is no longer necessary to get back to full power would be the point of contention for groups trying to maximize.

The fact Living Dead has two separate icons with two separate descriptions bothers me immensely. If all you ever saw was the Walking Dead symbol it would be easier to learn as a new healer. The red debuffs means my heals are stronger and they die in 12 seconds if I don't step up. The mandatory death seems to warrant increased healing potency received but I would be so thankful for a little bit more time to cast the necessary spells to make it useful.

[Lucy_Pyre]

It would also cause your damage to be reduced by 20%

I cannot explain in words how much I ***HATE*** this suggestion, but this will have to do. In XIV damage is king. If you made Living Dead do this it would literally never be used, EVER, unless the DRK was literally forced to hit the button to avoid an otherwise 100% unavoidable death.

[DWolfwood]

If I could just redo the whole skill over Living Dead would cause you to gain Walking Dead status immediately upon execution and last 12 seconds with the benefit of keeping most attacks from killing you. It would also cause your damage to be reduced by 20% since you are a zombie while simultaneously increasing the potency of any healing you receive by 20%.

This is literally a much worse Superbolide.

Honestly, while a lot of people would hate it. It would probably just be easier on everyone if every ultimate tank CD was the same and was just like Hallowed Ground.

As I said in another thread, balancing defensive CDs is a futile struggle with not much reward.

Just give us cool, unique aesthetics, and different DPS rotations and I'll be happy.