Quote Originally Posted by Kabooa View Post
As happy as that would make me, that's busted beyond belief. The duality of TBN means it can never be DPS positive, or it must be a negligible amount of positive value. That's a disgustingly high potency boost.
Not disagreeing with you, as I don't know the math here: but do we know what % of our damage comes from Dark Arts'd Edges/Floods? At most, it's one every 15s. Realistically, it's probably closer to every 20-25s (as you need to wait to use TBN when you know it'll get broken). Checking FFLogs (and I might be doing it wrong here), looking at an E1S and E4S with a DRK in it, the DRK only cast TBN 4 times and 2 times, respectively. So in E1S, that was 4 out of 19 Edges + 7 Floods, or 4 out 26 attacks. In E4S it was 2 out of 41 Edges + 4 Floods, or 2 out of 45.

Given that a Crit is somewhere around 55-60% buff, and a DHit is a 25% buff, a Crit DHit is ~100% buff. But if you're only looking at anywhere from 2% to 16% of your Edges/Floods having Dark Arts, and Edges + Floods make up 13-15% of total damage in those two fights, you could be looking at something as low as a .26% increase in dps, up to a 2.4% increase in dps (overall).

My math here is pretty fast, so it could easily be off. But a 2.4% buff to dps isn't insane, right? Or is it?