Living Dead change

[Seraphor]

More DRK play, especially the Titania example posted above, has made me appreciate LD a lot more.

But I still hate that you can still die if another player doesn't support you, and I think death as a penalty for that is far too punishing.
I'd suggest, making the penalty for not being healed to full as:
You're inflicted with Weakness, as if you were just raised.
You're inflicted with reduced healing, meaning heals recover X% less HP on you. (this makes it more of a penalty specific to the healer)
But not for the full duration of a normal weakness, only about 30s.

[Rakshazi]

More DRK play, especially the Titania example posted above, has made me appreciate LD a lot more.

But I still hate that you can still die if another player doesn't support you, and I think death as a penalty for that is far too punishing.
I'd suggest, making the penalty for not being healed to full as:
You're inflicted with Weakness, as if you were just raised.
You're inflicted with reduced healing, meaning heals recover X% less HP on you. (this makes it more of a penalty specific to the healer)
But not for the full duration of a normal weakness, only about 30s.

Hey, I like this solution. And it's, probaly, far more doable than mine. Nice one, mate!

[HyperiusUltima]

Hey, I like this solution. And it's, probaly, far more doable than mine. Nice one, mate!

It’d be a pretty bad penalty though; esp. in raids. It would make it sound even more of a liability than KO PENALTY because of fight design, meaning you could have even less people playing DRK.

[Seraphor]

It’d be a pretty bad penalty though; esp. in raids. It would make it sound even more of a liability than KO PENALTY because of fight design, meaning you could have even less people playing DRK.

How? it's significantly LESS punishing than it currently is.
If you die, you get weakness anyway, but for 100s, and lose aggro, and use up healer time and MP.

It's currently:
Die
Lose Aggro
Healer forced to raise you. Time and MP costs.
Meanwhile someone else takes damage.
Someone else dies, possibly a healer.
You get raised.
You have weakness for 100s.
Have to regain aggro.

Or it could be:
You get weakness for 30s.
That's it.