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    Quote Originally Posted by pandabearcat View Post
    Drain is more efficient than Unleash if you factor in darkside, furthermore it is a dps gain.

    So unless you have mobs behind you or oddly spread (for instance, a very large mob that cannot be easily drained) you will never use unleash. It is a dps loss to do so.

    What do you mean factoring Darkside?
    Darkside should buff both equally.

    How is Unleash more efficient?
    It's 7.95 mana per potency while Drain is 8.1.

    And that DRK enmity table puts Unleash equal to Drain in terms of Hate.
    Making it much more Hate efficient as well, with the lower mana cost.

    I guess you mean time efficient.
    That is what it is, you get the 120 burst for one gcd.
    It's not hate or mana efficient, but it will give more dps.

    You sacrifice extra mana for dps, so efficient's just not the word I associate with Abyssal Drain.
    It's true you can usually spare that mana because of Blood Price, but it's not so cut and dry as Drain always being better.

    In cases where you can bottom out on mana with even with BP, Unleash would do more damage due to its efficiency.
    Alternatively, you can spend that mana on defenses like DA-Dark Dance (after Blood Price).
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    Last edited by Allyrion; 08-09-2015 at 09:18 AM.