Living Dead and other DRK QOL in 5.3

[bundythenoob]

"Muh stronk TBN"

That sounds like a pretty cool idea for DRK's invuln. Having Walking Dead be cleansed by the DRK themselves would be pretty nice. I would just add something like "the tank must heal 15% of their total hp, but can still receive healing", just because on the off chance that the tank manages to cleanse itself, it would only have 15% health and might get clipped by whatever the leftover enemies might throw at them. every other tank invuln allows the tanks to receive healing during their invincibility time, so I think DRK deserves the same.

either that, or further enable the "muh stronk tbn" meme by making it reset cooldown once walking dead activates, thus ensuring that the DRK still has an effective 40% HP once they cleanse and activate tbn after that.

[Nefimmyr]

That sounds like a pretty cool idea for DRK's invuln. Having Walking Dead be cleansed by the DRK themselves would be pretty nice. I would just add something like "the tank must heal 15% of their total hp, but can still receive healing", just because on the off chance that the tank manages to cleanse itself, it would only have 15% health and might get clipped by whatever the leftover enemies might throw at them. every other tank invuln allows the tanks to receive healing during their invincibility time, so I think DRK deserves the same.

either that, or further enable the "muh stronk tbn" meme by making it reset cooldown once walking dead activates, thus ensuring that the DRK still has an effective 40% HP once they cleanse and activate tbn after that.

That's a good point I didn't account for about them coming out of Walking Dead without enough HP because they got clipped by another attack. Since the time I made the previous post I had the idea that instead of Walking Dead needing to be cleansed at all, your HP just needs to be above 1 after it expires. Meaning any of DRK existing "self heals" in lieu with any new or reworking ones could meet this requirement. But the catch would be that DRKs receive no external healing from party members nor the natural server HP regen tick. AND during Walking Dead, MP actions will have no cost like TBN so it can effectively give you a buffer when needed.