How many more times must our Living Dead get griefed?

[ConantSivrha]

ConantSivrha / DRK / Against

I can’t tell which specific idea this post is counting votes for and against, so I’ll clarify my own position on a few of the things that have been mentioned in the original post and the thread:

I think healers sabotaging Living Dead is almost always an innocent mistake instead of intentional griefing. OP said, in one of their later posts, that they weren’t asking for healers to be punished for healing a dark knight during Living Dead, but this part of the original post…

I'm curious how many more times our Living Dead must be griefed before SE finally steps in and tells these healers enough is enough.

…initially came across to me as “Square Enix/GMs should take action against healers who heal DRKs during Living Dead, because healers who do this are griefers”, which is a position that I was/am opposed to.

I also don’t want Living Dead to lose its uniqueness so it can become foolproof (and/or “normal”). Other invulns may not require the same timing and party cooperation as Living Dead, but other invulns also don’t heal you. Living Dead is powerful, and more importantly, cool as fuck. It’s a fair trade-off, and the last thing we need is more homogenization.

Regarding the idea of Living Dead gaining an effect that blocks outside healing until Walking Dead activates…honestly, there’s a part of me that’s curious how something like this would pan out, and I think it would make DRK more fun to play. But I can also see its potential to cause problems for the party, especially if the blocked healing was simply lost without creating any beneficial effect at all. My focus on the potential downsides for other players was an attempt to correct for personal bias. I’d say I’m neutral towards this idea, and my opinion could change one way or the other depending on the details.

I wouldn’t mind a little extra sustain on DRK. Personally, I would like a regen effect on Oblation.

Lastly, I think a visual indicator for Living Dead (aside from the buff icon by the dark knight’s name), as mentioned by Kaixern, would be an improvement.

With all the flashy abilities, auras an so on that classes have in this game it is still weird to me that living dead doesn't have an ongoing visual indicator that would show that your character is under this certain debuff
(like a veil of darkness surrounding them or even anything else)