Quote Originally Posted by Lyth View Post
1. If your HP visually reads 0, then you have been KO'd. Your HP never actually reads "0" at any point if the ability executes correctly. I know what the wording is trying to say. The common parlance for this is "cannot reduce your HP to less than 1". That's what Holmgang states. That's also what other parts of the same tooltip state (it's not even consistent across the text). It's just the one part of the ability on the tooltip and buff text that uses this misleading wording. I suspect that this is a localisation issue.
Ah, here it is. There's your problem. You think that Living Dead is the buff that gives you invulnerability. It's not. Living Dead only does one thing. If you would be reduced to 0 HP, it replaces itself with Walking Dead. Now, since Walking Dead only ever exists when Living Dead is triggered, it gets described in Living Dead's tooltip, just like MNK's Brotherhood or PLD's Divine Veil. And we all know that Walking Dead says "most attacks cannot lower your HP below 1."

It's fairly clear. There's no localization issue. It does what it says. The only possible change I could see being made is changing "When HP is reduced to 0" to be "If HP would be reduced to 0" but it's still perfectly understandable as is.

(I'll admit I forgot that overhealing used to not count, but that was years ago and I forgot one point. Sue me.)