The Definitive Dark Knight Guide

^ yea i see what you mean.

Way back use to use Mercy Stroke macro'd into an ability or another. Stopped doing that.

Tried Macroing Blood Weapon & Blood Price together - didn't like that either (I'd have to hit the macro repeatedly between GCDs, as tapping it just once doesn't seem to make it trigger if I hit it too soon)

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Originally Posted by Giantbane

I'm not sure how people are using DA + SE all that often when tanking unless they're dropping Grit and Using Blood Weapon. Since DA + SE is such a low priority, I rarely find I have enough mana to use it more than 1x per minute (maybe) in a single target fight.

This is with only using 1-2 power slash combos to start the fight and doing siphon combos (SE / DL) from that point on.



On lower level content like EX: DR, I find the extra SE's allow healers to stay in cleric longer.

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Wth are you using the rest of your mana on lol you should be able to throw out at least 3 or 4 a minute not just 1. Hell I find I usually have enough mana to throw dark arts onto CaS for the dps gain.

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Originally Posted by Allyrion

What are people using in A1S for the Plasma buster? What do you save for it?
I don't know if it's cause we have an AST or just me, but the boss hits pretty hard outside of the buster.
You can use anything at the start of the fight and it'll be up by the first Plasma, but what have you guys been using to survive it?

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Yes, you can pop every ability except Living Dead & it will be up in time for Plasma. I actually do so I can tank without Grit until the Oppressor 0.5 spawns.

Hydrothermal Missile cast ends -> Shadowskin
Royal Fount -> Dark Arts
Begins casting Hypercompressed Plasma -> Dark Mind

As long as you didn't burn Dark Arts on another ability by accident this reduces damage taken to 11000~11800 damage. I prefer to save Shadow Wall to eat Pod/Fount so I can keep Grit off longer.

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Originally Posted by Drtoxicmedica

Wth are you using the rest of your mana on lol you should be able to throw out at least 3 or 4 a minute not just 1. Hell I find I usually have enough mana to throw dark arts onto CaS for the dps gain.

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unmend if i'm ever away from the boss and it won't break my combo > dark passenger > DA + carve & spit

maybe DA + Dark Mind depending on the fight?

only use DA + SE if I already have enough for all of the above.

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Originally Posted by Giantbane

unmend if i'm ever away from the boss and it won't break my combo > dark passenger > DA + carve & spit

maybe DA + Dark Mind depending on the fight?

only use DA + SE if I already have enough for all of the above.

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Are you literally running out of mana or sitting on a decent amount? I find once I know the fight well I can usually run my MP pretty low without accidently losing darkside should at least be able to DA SE everyother combo or so.

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Originally Posted by Drtoxicmedica

Are you literally running out of mana or sitting on a decent amount? I find once I know the fight well I can usually run my MP pretty low without accidently losing darkside should at least be able to DA SE everyother combo or so.

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Try to stay around 50-60% unless I absolutely know I'm not going to want to use it soon, need to burn something down fast, or want a big self heal.

But it shouldn't make any difference, spending all your MP doesn't make you get it back any faster, so as long as I'm not running out of MP completely, keeping myself at 20% isn't going to make me regen mp faster for more DA+SEs.

It takes ~15s for 2 siphon combos to cover the cost of 1 dark arts. So assuming blood price was going to cover the cost of darkside every minute (kinda doubt it against a single boss), we only generate about 4 dark arts worth of mana per minute if we have 100% up time on the boss. 1 DA is going to be for C&S and another DA's worth of mp is going to dark passenger. Which leaves at most 2 DA + SE's per minute under the best conditions. Even throwing out sole survivor on adds isn't even going to give you another DA's worth of MP to use.

Hello

Any lv60 DRK using controller could share his bars?

thx!

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Originally Posted by Allyrion

What are people using in A1S for the Plasma buster? What do you save for it?
I don't know if it's cause we have an AST or just me, but the boss hits pretty hard outside of the buster.
You can use anything at the start of the fight and it'll be up by the first Plasma, but what have you guys been using to survive it?

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I've been using Shadowskin + DA Dark Mind on first, Shadowwall + DA Dark Mind on second, third same as first again. Living Dead if healers are in a bad spot or I want to stockpile CDs back up. I usually take 7-9k from the plasma, so I don't really see a reason to stack more CDs than that.

My computer keyboard layout is as per below (without explanation for the reasoning).

Hotbar 1:
1 = Provoke
2 = Unleash
3 = Unmend. Macro icon = Plunge
4 = Low Blow
5 = Macro: Reprisal --> Plunge --> Dark Passenger. Macro icon = Dark Passenger
6 = Macro: Mercy Stroke --> Hard Slash. Macro icon = Hard Slash
7 = Syphon Strike
8 = Macro: Blood Weapon --> Blood Price --> Soul Eater. Macro icon = Soul Eater
9 = Scourge
0 = Defensive macro: Dark Dance, Shadowskin, Foresight, Shadow Wall
- = Carve and Spit
= = Dark Arts

Hotbar 2:
Ctrl 1 = whatever you want
Ctrl 2 = Salted Earth
Ctrl 3 = Abyssal Drain
Ctrl 4 = Sole Survivor
Ctrl 5 = whatever you want
Ctrl 6 = Spinning Slash
Ctrl 7 = Macro: Blood Price --> Power Slash. Macro icon = Power Slash
Ctrl 8 = Delirium
Ctrl 9 = whatever you want
Ctrl 0 = Dark Mind
Ctrl - = Macro: party chat on use of living dead + Living Dead. Macro icon = Living Dead
Ctrl = = Sprint

Hotbar 3:
Alt 1 = Reprisal
Alt 2 = Shadowskin
Alt 3 = Foreskin
Alt 4 = Shadow Wall
Alt 5 = Convalescence
Alt 6 = Awareness
Alt 7 = Dark Dance
Alt 8 = Blood Price
Alt 9 = Blood Weapon
Alt 0 = Mercy Stroke
Alt - = Darkside
Alt = = Grit