DRK skill: Living Dead

[Fynlar]

Honest question as a new DRK.

Should I make a macro to notify party chat that I’m using LD and to cure me?

Any rule of when I should or should not use LD?

I don't think anyone would fault you for having a /p line for it, given how it works. Just don't jam the button multiple times when you use it or anything, and it should be fine.

You use it whenever you're expecting to take a fatal hit (because if you don't, LD doesn't actually do anything for you at all). LD never does anything *bad* for you; the only times it will kill you are in situations where you would have died anyway, so you should still never be afraid to use it if you feel like a fatal hit is coming.

The only potential drawback comes in the form of healers trying to spend MP/resources on you to heal you before WD kills you but failing to heal you enough in time, so then you're dead AND the healers are worse off in MP/resources than they might otherwise have been if you had just died immediately. That is admittedly a big potential flaw of the ability, but that's more of a healer failing than a tank failing, though, and it is most often caused by healers stuck in "dps mode" rather than actually performing the role they're named after.

No, the 'invuln time' is 20 seconds because the concept behind it is to stop spending heals on a DRK once LD has been activated.

If someone is planning to use LD for an anticipated fatal hit though, like I said, there is no difference between activating LD immediately before it or activating it 10 seconds prior. Either way, you can stop healing them until WD is triggered by the tank buster or whatever. Again, any time before WD activates, LD is doing nothing for you, ergo it does not count as artificial extended "invuln time".

The 20 seconds thing is a myth, whether you care to believe that or not. I understand that it is a flawed invuln skill and that people want to desperately cling to any sort of thing they can that will make the ability sound better than it actually is, but the 20 seconds thing just isn't it. It's easily refuted.