Living Dead: Problem List

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(edit, whoops forgot I already commented in this thread a little while ago.)

+1 for this post, it's something that's really important to me as a DRK player.

I've proposed my own fix for Living Dead, might as well mention it again. Instead of killing you if not healed to full, Living Dead should grant 4 stacks of an effect for 10s. While under this effect, you get the standard invun effect.

When you're healed for 25% of your HP, you lose one stack. When the effect expires, you take damage equal to 25% of your max HP for every stack remaining.

With this change,

• the thematic concept of the skill is preserved
  
• its easier to track how close you are to surviving the skill by tracking your remaining stacks
  
• you only need to heal to 50% HP to survive because:
  
• shield healers are more valuable to soak that final burst of damage
  
• the DRK can delay TBN and use it to soak a stack and get a guaranteed Dark Arts

I've always thought this fix should be pretty obvious so I'm surprised we've gone years without a change like this from the dev teams.

Honestly, part of this is the self recovery. You can prevent an amazing amount of damage as DRK but you can't correct any mistakes you make in the way other tanks can, which is a huge issue.

To resolve this, DRK really should get more healing skills. Not more than the other tanks but something to flesh out the kit and recover from dangerous situations when TBN fails. Their new 60s 2 charge cooldown is screaming for a healing effect - would love for it to heal based on damage taken like Macrocosmos does.

Alternativly, Dark Mind would really do well to have healing folded into the skill so you have some regeneration at a low level (DRK should never have lost Soul Survivor tbh).

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Really like this idea for LD. Kinda reminds me of Stagger from Brewmaster Monk in WoW.

Refined out, this would be a really cool QoL update.