Quote Originally Posted by Nosaji_ View Post
If DRK was to have the 600mp on Syphon Strike taken away and moved to an alternate finisher, it would be made necessary to do that finisher to regain MP in order to maintain Darkside and also use your main mitigation tool, I'd say that's enough incentive to use it.
So here you run into two new issues:

1. How many GCDs are you spending generating the Darkside buff? Because those are GCDs necessarily being taken away from Blood Gauge.
2. Is the decision-making here esoteric to the point casual players need to look up a guide to understand how to play the job at a basic level, or may end up suffering choice paralysis when faced with a branching combo?