Quote Originally Posted by Allyrion View Post
You're not counting Darkside. One of your syphons every 20s is paying for the drain, not rather than refunding a DA.
It's still roughly 3-4 a minute. Possibly more with Blood Price, but many Bosses have fairly spaced out attacks.
Sole Survivor can bump it up in most fights, and Carve and Split if you want to sacrifice the potency of that.

I agree it's definitely more than 2 a minute, but you can't talk about mana management without accounting for Darkside.
I also remember Dark Arts feeling more expensive while leveling.
I'm not sure how mana scales while levelling in this game. I do know your mana pool grows a lot post 50, but if it's all % based it wouldn't matter.
When I mentioned 4-5 times at least, and 6-8 times if tanking a trash pack, that's with Darkside on. I never turn Darkside off.