Quote Originally Posted by Ignimortis View Post
If you don't spam Edge/Flood, you're losing DPS. You don't have anything else to spend mana on until TBN, and even then you should always dump mana at any point you're at 6k MP or above. It's free damage, and you earn enough mana even without Blood Weapon/Delirium to throw one EoS/FoS each 20 seconds. The only reason to not spam EoS/FoS is aligning it with Trick Attack's window, and after that's gone, you have some time in which you should still spam EoS/FoS. If you don't have a NIN, then there is pretty much no reason at all to not use EoS when your mana is at 6k or above. If you don't need to TBN (solo content/no shielding necessary/below 70) you just dump mana into EoS always.
Ok lets define spamming for a moment. You spam edge or flood until Zero MP let's say now if you play the job you lose darkside because of this spamming what then you just lose 10% buff with darkside and have to wait to bring that back. Hense why I said you don't spam edge or flood you manage it in correlation with your black blood. Another point if you spam edge and flood to 0 you can't do TBN so again another example of a dps loss since it gives you instant edge or flood at no mp loss. Now I won't factor trick attack because besides trail savage there is no content right now to try this out but I'm speaking from experience you should "spam" edge or flood that IS a loss and I am speaking this again from experience not theory.