What Makes a Paladin? An Essay on Paladin Identity

[Freyyy]

Sorry, but no. Maim and Eye will fall if you don't reapply them, Blood of the Dragon will fall if you don't manage it properly. Darkside is a stance, it changes the gameplay of DRK (Again, something that no oath does, wether you have one activated or not) and it will never fall by itself.

A stance cannot be activated alongside another stance, it's the basic thing of "stances". You have to choose which one you use (try to stand in two different stances at the same time in real life, it's impossible). MNK fists are stances, NIN poisons are stances. A DPS stance for DRK would be something that cancels out Grit, costs the same MP, is on the GCD and doesn't conflict with Darkside either. DRK doesn't have anything like that. Darkside is a Maim equivalent, that's all. Saying that Darkside is a stance is like saying that Aetherflow is a stance. Aetherflow also changes the gameplay of SCH/SMN, and will also never fall by itself (as long as you don't USE the stacks).
And DRK doesn't need a DPS stance because of what Blood Weapon brings to DRKs kit when used. More speed, a little less TP consumption, and mostly a lot more MP which means a lot more Dark Arts. Which means a lot more DPS.

Edit : I'll also add that Maim never falls off when you do your rotation properly either, just like Darkside. The argument of "Unless you never use Syphon Strike, it won't fall off" is moot because, unless you never use Maim, it won't fall off either. And guess what ? Maim and Syphon Strike are both at the same place in the rotation. Second tier of non-enmity combos. It's just that for WAR, your enmity combo is also your most damaging combo, so you're most of the time alternating between a BB combo and a SE combo, where DRK will use as little Power Slash as possible. But it's to compensate the fact that Syphon isn't only here to compensate Darkside's cost, but also Dark Arts, Dark Passenger, and all that stuff -alongisde BP and BW-.