Living dead must change

[Liam_Harper]

From a healer PoV, even if you have a WHM in the group it doesn't make Living Dead great. Benediction is not just a rare emergency button, it's an extremely potent oGCD and great to weave in on a tank who is low or a dps who got hit by a mechanic to save heal GCD's. When your tank is a DRK and assigned to immune a tankbuster, you lose free access to that part of your toolkit. Other tanks don't have to be healed to full, you can throw a lily and a tetra on them or let the AST ED and any HoT's up or passive raid heals can handle the rest.

Holm is almost too good now. In some fights, having a WAR lets you immune more busters than a non-WAR comp. That's a huge advantage and makes healing so much easier, especially with an AST and because the tank can move the mitigation elsewhere. I'm surprised LD doesn't have the shorter CD so DRK could at least have filled that niche of an extra buster immune instead. But tbh immunes in general probably need looking at.

[Danelo]

From a healer PoV, even if you have a WHM in the group it doesn't make Living Dead great. Benediction is not just a rare emergency button, it's an extremely potent oGCD and great to weave in on a tank who is low or a dps who got hit by a mechanic to save heal GCD's. When your tank is a DRK and assigned to immune a tankbuster, you lose free access to that part of your toolkit. Other tanks don't have to be healed to full, you can throw a lily and a tetra on them or let the AST ED and any HoT's up or passive raid heals can handle the rest.

Holm is almost too good now. In some fights, having a WAR lets you immune more busters than a non-WAR comp. That's a huge advantage and makes healing so much easier, especially with an AST and because the tank can move the mitigation elsewhere. I'm surprised LD doesn't have the shorter CD so DRK could at least have filled that niche of an extra buster immune instead. But tbh immunes in general probably need looking at.

I don’t check on the healer forums often but I wonder if there is this kind of sentiment, generally, on that side? It seems it would certainly be helpful if there was an outcry from healers to talk about LD being a less than desirable invulnerability that it would push the devs and Yoshi p to do rework it considering the symbiotic relationship between the two roles.

[Lyth]

I don’t check on the healer forums often but I wonder if there is this kind of sentiment, generally, on that side? It seems it would certainly be helpful if there was an outcry from healers to talk about LD being a less than desirable invulnerability that it would push the devs and Yoshi p to do rework it considering the symbiotic relationship between the two roles.

The last dedicated discussion on the subject was this one: Link

The answer to your question is Swiftcast + Raise.

I think that a stat squish could either ease or worsen the healing requirements on the ability. The proposed 'pure'/'shield' healer split doesn't bode well, unless it gets reworked such that shields count towards the effect.

[Sqwall]

From a healer PoV, even if you have a WHM in the group it doesn't make Living Dead great. Benediction is not just a rare emergency button, it's an extremely potent oGCD and great to weave in on a tank who is low or a dps who got hit by a mechanic to save heal GCD's. When your tank is a DRK and assigned to immune a tankbuster, you lose free access to that part of your toolkit. Other tanks don't have to be healed to full, you can throw a lily and a tetra on them or let the AST ED and any HoT's up or passive raid heals can handle the rest.

Holm is almost too good now. In some fights, having a WAR lets you immune more busters than a non-WAR comp. That's a huge advantage and makes healing so much easier, especially with an AST and because the tank can move the mitigation elsewhere. I'm surprised LD doesn't have the shorter CD so DRK could at least have filled that niche of an extra buster immune instead. But tbh immunes in general probably need looking at.

Holm is just as bad to heal from a healer perspective as superbolide. The WAR has an advantage with it's crazy healing skills. Thril + Equal + Nascent is around 150k ish. Healer won't need to bene. I run AST so one essential is really all I need to top them off. The rest I can Lightspeed Benenfic 2. Celestial intersection is REALLY good for low HP tanks, and gives me time to heal them up.

Living Dead in my opinion is ALL on the DRK when it comes to timing. If they do in fact die, then it's up to me as a healer to get them back up. When I have a DRK in the group I make it a point to watch for Living Dead. Lightspeed is a perfect skill for DRK's popping Living Dead. Just stop them from dieing and it's all good, and if they do die? I have 10 seconds of the DRK taking no damage until I can raise them to full HP. AST has no problem fully healing form 0 as I can do this with GNB, and WAR. Because 1 is only 1 more then 0. I don't see the issue bringing a GNB back from 1 to full health vs. brining a DRK back from 1 to full health.

If anything...they just lower the percentage of health required from 100% to 75%. Fixed.