A cool rework for Living Dead and Superbolide

[Vandso]

Living Dead
Ability Instant 300s
Grants the effect of Living Dead.
Your HP can be reduced below 0 without being KO'd under the effect of Living Dead. The negative HP can be healed as normal HP. If your HP is below 0 before the Walking Dead timer runs out, you will be KO'd.
Living Dead Duration: 10s
Additional Effect: Restores HP with each weaponskill successfully delivered or spell cast
Cure Potency: 1500

Superbolide
Ability Instant 120s
Reduces HP to 1 and creates a barrier which nullifies damage equaling the reduced HP.
Duration: 15s

Yes, this is not an invul. However, they gain another ability:

Role Reversal
Ability Instant 360s
Converts all damage taken into healing and all healing received into damage.
Duration: 10s

[PredatoryCatgirl]

Sorry, no. GNB is enough like a DPS already without practically removing its invuln and swapping it for a damage buff. I like being unkillable for a few seconds, not just swapping HP for a shield.

[Jeeqbit]

Superbolide
Ability Instant 120s
Reduces HP to 1 and creates a barrier which nullifies damage equaling the reduced HP.
Duration: 15s

Yes, this is not an invul. However, they gain another ability:

Role Reversal
Ability Instant 360s
Converts all damage taken into healing and all healing received into damage.
Duration: 10s

I always thought that DRK could have this before they improved Living Dead. I thought that Living Dead could just be a massive version of The Blackest Night as you described.

[Absurdity]

I always thought that DRK could have this before they improved Living Dead. I thought that Living Dead could just be a massive version of The Blackest Night as you described.

It would add some variety and fit thematically, the problem is currently it would create a massive balance issue and I'm not talking about some minor inconvenience like "tank job X does 200 less dps than tank job Y".

Right now invulns allow you to survive mechanics that would kill you 10 times over, changing one of them to just provide a barrier would make a massive difference because now you have to decide between a job that just brings a big shield and a job that let's you potentially ignore a mechanic entirely.

We would have to change all invulns to no longer make you unkillable, which I would be fine with tbh.

[Saraide]

Arent all of those like massive nerfs?

[Atelier-Bagur]

Who cares, dark knights will never, EVER FOREVER EVEEEER be as cool as Death Knights.

[Espon]

If the Gunbreaker uses Superbolide when they're low on health then the barrier will will do almost nothing and they'll die from the next hit anyways since their total effective health is still the same. Role Reversal's cons are obvious as it means healers will HAVE to immediately stop healing you. All it takes is for a white mage to accidentally hit you with Benediction while you have this buff and now you're dead. You also cannot use these abilities together as healers will see your HP drop to 1 and will likely start chewing apart your shield as they panic to try and save you

That Living Dead change is just a nerf all around.

[NekoMataMata]

Arent all of those like massive nerfs?

They are.

They literally just took LD and gave it the old downside back.

[Vandso]

Sorry, no. GNB is enough like a DPS already without practically removing its invuln and swapping it for a damage buff. I like being unkillable for a few seconds, not just swapping HP for a shield.

The second ability that I mentioned is an invul. All the damage that they take from the enemies are healed instead, and healers are the ones who do damage to them.

[CidHeiral]

No thanks.