Just a thought. Earlier in this thread it was mentioned "never use Carve and Spit without Dark Arts" and I simply disagree with that. It's something that takes a lot of pre-planning and thought, but I tend to line up my C&S + Dark Arts combo any time I have a surplus of mana and want to just go full DPS.

There are times where you will need to play conservatively and C&S is a REALLY good catch up tool for that if you're in a mana hole for any reason.