Quote Originally Posted by Ninster View Post
For Dark Knight, MP management is an issue. I pop Blood Price when I can, yet I rarely end up using most of it (mostly Unleash spam), but when I start trying to use Dark Arts, I end up almost starving myself. Also, I just got Plunge: do I need to pull with that instead of Unmend when it's up? I'm a bit confused how it's used other than extra damage.
Count off dark arts in terms of syphon strikes. It takes two syphon strikes to get one dark arts back, so you should be monitoring how many syphon strikes you need so you don't blow through MP too quickly--in some cases it's kind of unavoidable, like if you're trying to burn something quickly and need a bunch of DA souleaters.

If you're running out of MP on trash pulls, you're probably using blood price too early in the pull. Pre-casting blood price does you no good, because it's not a defensive and you want to get hit literally as often as possible while it's up. Also, DRK is probably the best tank for trash pulls because their threat generation comes from unleash/dark passenger spam, and blood price makes those abilities free. It's so limiting going back to PLD and having to actually worry about MP after drowning in it as a DRK.

Also, yeah, you're gonna be using Unmend for pulling, forever. Plunge has its moments of use, but they're super niche and I can't really come up with an example of a time you'd want to save it for anything besides extra off-GCD damage.