DRK - Excessive Dark Arts

[SyzzleSpark]

People keep saying this but I fail to understand how. You're taking 140 potency of MP and turning it into 380 potency, the MP cost of which is paid for by the time you can even use TBN again. You're only delaying 1 SS/SE combo per minute, or half a dark arts and 10 blood, so you're not delaying your mp regen by any significant amount.

Provided you always have CnS paid for, I cannot understand how turning 140 potency into 380 as often as possible is a DPS loss.

You're not taking 140 potency and turning it into 380 because that 380 is on the GCD. DA is basically a 140 potency off-GCD.

Whenever you're mathing how much of a potency gain something that is on the GCD is, you have to weight it against the existing average potency per GCD.

When you spend a DA's worth of mana to get an extra BS by using TBN, you're only getting a net 240 potency (380-140). And that 240 potency is exactly 10 less than the average PPGCD. Ergo, its a loss. Yes its a small one, but its a far cry from the "spam TBN on CD to proc more Bloodspillers because its a 380 potency gain!"

Honestly someone should delete this thread. The problem with DRK isn't our DA usage, its that we're the lowest tank DPS and offer less utility than PLD.