Quote Originally Posted by Tigore View Post
I have been able to let a few DRK tanks I know of proc their Living Dead, but it does require tight communication. During the Endwalker times for the end of expansion, I literally have to stop all healing period for it to proc. Just putting up any Regen from my WHM could ruin the proc. We already bump heads with the Holy stuns possibly making TBN fizzle with no free Dark Arts too. It got to the point where my savage DRK tank friend just gave up on trying to time it. Since we might confuse new PuGs to stop all healing then all of a sudden heal.

If I had to guess which of your proposed solutions would be preferred, it might end up being the latter actually to shut down heals while using your invuln. It might need to have a 50% max HP heal tagged on if it expires without you "dying" to make up for the heal shutdown. That way there is still a reason to try and keep the DRK damage higher than the WAR and PLD. Whether the patch addressed this issue for you or not we will see soon enough. One could make a point for DRK to be the highest DPS tank if they are to have the lowest defences compared to the others.
You sound like you at least mostly understand, and that's great. I would actually prefer to not even need Living Dead in dungeons. But, since getting a healer that doesn't put me in the situation of using my last resort is a rare occurance, the only way that's happening is if dark knight gets some self sustain. The patch only addressed dark knight damage balance, but gunbreaker is still doing to be top dps and still have better self sustain. If we are going to continue being taxed more heavily than gunbreaker for being a high damage tank, then dark knight should at least be the highest dps among tanks, so you hit the nail on the head there.