Quote Originally Posted by FlavoredSoul View Post
I had the same reaction to Zombie form at first but it's important to not look at any ability in a vacuum and look at what you're giving up for it, remember that this locks you into zombie form (poor bonuses to DC casting), and is also locked behind a Tier 5 ability (12 levels of wizard + T5 so useless for multiclass melees and locks out EK T5s so useless for pure wizard melee dps) so there is definitely a lot of stuff you're trading away for this, optimized melee dps wizards are still going to be going T5 EK, Zombie seems like a powerful tanking option but Arti with fighter or pally and 1 wiz splash will still be better tanks than a zombie wizard, overall it ends up being an option that makes you a tanky dps that's still not tanky enough to keep up with multiclass mastermaker tanks, while not being as good at dps as eldritch knight.
You lose 1 potential DC from being in Zombie form. At the payout of 20% HP. I can get behind some form of percentage-based hp for zombie. But 20% is just too much. Tanking isn't even part of the discussion at this point.