Living Dead change idea

[Lyth]

Just for reference with regards to the Live Letter Q+A that comes out later on today/tomorrow (depending on your timezone).

Here's a listing of all the questions that I could currently find on the English forums specifically raising issues with Living Dead. That's not too shabby given that there are roughly 2000 distinct entries.

1 (155 upvotes)
2 (81 upvotes)
3 (52 upvotes)
4 (33 upvotes)
5 (30 upvotes)
6 (29 upvotes)
7 (24 upvotes)
8 (24 upvotes)
9 (11 upvotes)
10 (10 upvotes)
11 (10 upvotes)
12 (8 upvotes)
13 (8 upvotes)
14 (8 upvotes)
15 (7 upvotes)
16 (7 upvotes)
17 (6 upvotes)
18 (6 upvotes)
19 (4 upvotes)
20 (4 upvotes)
21 (4 upvotes)
22 (4 upvotes)
23 (2 upvotes)
24 (1 upvote)

I'll be interested to see if they deliberately avoid the issue again. If they do, it would fairly conclusively demonstrate that the dev team really isn't interested in listening to the playerbase's feedback.

[Danelo]

I'll be interested to see if they deliberately avoid the issue again. If they do, it would fairly conclusively demonstrate that the dev team really isn't interested in listening to the playerbase's feedback.

I’m pretty sure the jury has come back on this question but everyone sure did make it hard for devs to not do something or at least respond.

[Terhix]

For an extra dose of hopium: it's also worth noting that JP forum has a relatively popular thread on Living Dead post EW launch, the buffs to Holmgang and Superbolide really did highlight how far behind LD is.

[The_User]

Ah and finally the question about "which side am I on?"


I did not take side.



But since the claim you used to requested for LD to be turned to such a strong invul is because Dark Knight don't have a reliable self heal, then what will be your claim when you requested for a reliable self heal?


Good Luck with the Live Letter tho, could be a quite a sight, talking in front of the camera about the problem that for the first time in 6 years they stop pretending it never existed.

[Veranolth]

Well good news apparently they did address Living Dead and said they'd rework LD and Blood Weapon.

[FoxCh40s]

Well good news apparently they did address Living Dead and said they'd rework LD and Blood Weapon.

No no, they said they were LOOKING at Blood Weapon. Don't let that fool you.

[Veranolth]

No no, they said they were LOOKING at Blood Weapon. Don't let that fool you.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...tes_from_live/

[Rollout]

I had an idea on how they could fix and simultaneously make Walking Dead worse.

When you die with Living Dead active, you don't die and are inflicted with Living Dead, as per normal.

Now, however, Living Dead acts more just like Holmgang, you can't be brought below 1 HP under most circumstances.
But instead of dying after ten seconds, if the debuff isn't cleansed, Living Dead instead acts like Brink of Death.
So, now you won't die if your healer can't heal you an equivalent worth of your max HP.
But you'll hit like a wet noodle because you're basically a zombie.

[JisKing98]

my idea of changing LD would be to make it a aoe invul that your allies can also benefit from. So now drk can save not only themselves but the other tank/group members during a big tank buster or shared buster.
Drk pops LD, a big 10yalm wide aoe appears below them, now the drk and any ally standing in the circle gains the benefit of walking dead where they cant be reduced to 0hp. At the end of the timer (10's) every ally including the drk recover hp equal to 50% of their max hp.

[Seife]

my idea of changing LD would be to make it a aoe invul that your allies can also benefit from. So now drk can save not only themselves but the other tank/group members during a big tank buster or shared buster.
Drk pops LD, a big 10yalm wide aoe appears below them, now the drk and any ally standing in the circle gains the benefit of walking dead where they cant be reduced to 0hp. At the end of the timer (10's) every ally including the drk recover hp equal to 50% of their max hp.

good joke made my day