TBN & WD probably wont be fundamentally changed (in 6.xx)

[Faafetai]

If it had some benefit to successfully healing it off -- like, "the target becomes invulnerable for the remaining duration and gains an additional bonus for X sec" if healed early -- then I could see the argument for rewarding team synergy. In such case we would still need a UI element and argue to reduce the healing requirement as not to leave healers who have actually been using their CDs until that point in the dust, but it would actually be a boon to seek out and coordinate with rather than just a penalty for failing to. Ample reward to justify taking a risk.
Because as now, it's a huge risk for equal or lesser value as other tanks get.

This is fair And depending on level and healer your playing it can be horrible. I was fumbling around in ala mihgo on scholar even with a heads up, I think a emergency tactics adloh and one lustrate cleared it off, but it was an already rough pull my first time healing that. I do enjoy level 50 dungeons talking it out with the tank and them giving me a heads up on white mage. "I am going to living dead" "Okay I have bene". I know though this is not the normal case scenario. Even been in the bad situations where I feel like all six of my lustrates at 50 were not enough I still have to do the math and see with server ticks because it can get freaking rough.

The times it is pulled off are great but the times it is not are not very fun. I do like those times, but if it means less times in full on panic I would be fine with it either being changed or give drk a way to sustain or heal out of it on their own. Holmgang you can heal yourself back up no problem most of the time especially after raw int you don't even need to worry about stressing the healer. I am torn on this because it is really fun, but the stress it does cause people is not fun.

The worst thing to come out of living dead would have to be the time snarky tank decided to tell the healers as if they were infants that they need to heal them out of walking dead when they were being sliced to bits in Niddhogg extreme. They had I think 5 stacks possibly 7 of the magic down vuln debuff thingy and were bene'd by both healers and still died because they yeeted their voke and shirk off their hotbars. You need to swap for that similar to many of the alex fights. I was the co-tank paladin just watching with disbelief while covering for their inability to voke or shirk by stealthily voking when I seen they had 4 stacks after my ad was killed sometime 3 I think it might have been. It was just a bad situation all together. Asked by a friend to run niddhogg extreme for the first to prog it with the drk throwing the entire wikipedia into chat at the start to begin with >.<

I think all together though it is fun to pull off when it happens, but it is unfair that drk is literally the only tank with this disadvantage, unsure if I mentioned that. There is a point where 'stream lining' is a good thing like say giving everyone a moment ability at the same time and the warrior change where your movement now no longer wastes beast gauge. It is similar to how I feel whm and astro's potencies and mana costs should be fixed to be more fair. It is like playing favorites randomly.

I like your idea and wish they would implement more synergies. I would like for it to be less punishing unsure if I mentioned this before sometimes I have more thoughts in my head than I can put into words and lose track. When I heal it usually 'shield healer' and healing living dead though at many levels it is trivial with a communicating tank via voice chat or hyper awareness sometimes that surprises me sometimes(though this is equaled out with many moments of derp on my part). It kind of just stinks more times than it is fun. Early levels whm and astro I feel have a better chance than sch or sage and I am talking 50 or prior. One button or two to solve over multiple buttons with precious time to spare as you see living dead is at 3 seconds now and you cast time will not save them.

It all reminds me of people being sad positionals are gone that made certain classes more 'skill based' but you have literally every boss spinning on a five second timer and there are not enough true norths in the world to rid anyone of the pain. I think the 'fun' is not worth the unfairness and bleh I feel sometimes know drk is done for and I wasted swift on something else. Usually adloh for the emergency adloh and it was not enough time! Server ticks also make me a bit salty about this and at first I was thinking maybe make the walking dead portion longer same with other cooldowns because you lose at least 3 seconds of most if not all cooldowns including invulns to server ticks.