Quote Originally Posted by Kaidam View Post
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Grit is the only stance, Darkside is just a buff with no time limit. Stay in Grit and keep Darkside on as much as you can, it should be 100% or near 100%.


You should not use dark arts everytime it's up.

For single target you generally use dark arts for Carve & Spit, Souleater and Dark Mind. Depending what you need. I generally use dark arts every 2-3 Syphon Strikes.

AOE, just use unleash, if there are a lot and you are taking heavy damage i would do dark arts + dark passenger but this hurts your MP a lot. Only use if you pull one group too many
Abyssal drain looks cool but the MP cost doesn't make it that much better than Unleash, there is only one pull I use dark arts on abyssal drain, and it's mostly to see big healing numbers.
No real point in using dark arts for aoe. Just use weaponskills between every few unleashes. Don't use too much MP.