Quote Originally Posted by Seku View Post
Because a single DA + Power slash combo or w/e it is called will throw DRK far ahead in comparison to a PLD's RoH. So they only need to do it 1-3 times in comparison to PLD whom would have to continue to use RoH through out the entire fight.
But the DRK loses so much more than the PLD doing a DA + Power slash combo. For a DRK, excess mana will be spent on DA + SE. The effect of this is to boost their siphon combo finisher from 280 (DL) to 400 (DA+SE). So 1 DA's worth of mana is worth about 120 potency.

By using the power slash combo, the DRK is not generating mana via siphon, which is 1/2 of a DA. So by using the PS combo, they're losing about 60 potency worth of damage. By buffing PS with DA, they're losing another 120 potency worth of damage. The PS combo is 650 total potency, while the DL potency is 680 total potency, another loss of 30 potency. So, by using DA + PS combo to secure threat, they are losing 210 (60+120+30) potency of damage that they would otherwise get if they were using their siphon combos. In addition, this is all under the effect of Darkside, so you have to multiply the effects by 115%, which means the loss is closer to 242 potency.

When a PLD does RoH instead of RA, he just loses 80 potency, or 88 potency if you include the average damage boost provided by FoF. This means that for every DA + PS combo the DRK does, they're losing a little less than 3x the potency of a PLD who uses RoH instead of RA.

If you're throwing out 3x RoH for every DRK's DA + Power slash combo, I think the PLD will come out ahead in terms of threat generated.