The Definitive Dark Knight Guide

[Ladon]

Here is an OT rotation that I've found very effective:

-pre-cast DA
-Salted Earth
-Plunge
Scourge
-Carve
Hard Slash
-Low Blow **
-Dark Passenger **
Syphon Strike
-DA
Souleater
-Blood Weapon ***
Hard Slash
Syphon Strike
Delirium

This is way too late for Blood Weapon. Something like this would be more effective:

-pre-cast DA
-Salted Earth
-Plunge
Scourge
-Carve
Hard Slash
-Dark Passenger
-Blood Weapon
Syphon Strike
-DA
-Low Blow
Souleater

This will give you more mana with Syphon Stirke after using Dark Passenger so you won't top yourself out, and then you will also get blood weapon mana back from the Low Blow after DA.

Even then, in most fight I will use Blood Weapon before the first plunge because you still will not cap yourself on mana after pre-casting DA and you get 238 manax3 back from Plunge, Scourge and C&S and I have been finding by doing this, later Blood Weapon use aligns much better with the OGCs coming off of cooldown to be used with Blood Weapon up.