The Definitive Dark Knight Guide

[Giantbane]

I'm not sure how people are using DA + SE all that often when tanking unless they're dropping Grit and Using Blood Weapon. Since DA + SE is such a low priority, I rarely find I have enough mana to use it more than 1x per minute (maybe) in a single target fight.

This is with only using 1-2 power slash combos to start the fight and doing siphon combos (SE / DL) from that point on.

I think that's right, but I don't mind using SE without DA if I think the heal wouldn't be wasted.
For most content, going for potency is usually fine because the healers are gonna top you off anyway.
I've found that in Savage, every bit counts when it comes to helping the healers because I'm usually not topped off.

On lower level content like EX: DR, I find the extra SE's allow healers to stay in cleric longer.

[Leigaon]

I just started to play DRK. I did tanking in 2.0 but stopped a while before 3.0. I took a look at the job and tried to learn things on my own. So far I'm getting the grasp of it, maintaining MP while keeping hate. I was looking at this for macros, hoping the OP would update the main post.

24 pages is a lot. If I missed a thread please point me to it but I'm trying to gather up any useful macros for this job that I do not currently use on WAR and PLD (both 50 but still have all the stuff ready to go.), I have a general idea of what I want to use but you often find very rare and golden egg macros.

[Daega]

I just started to play DRK. I did tanking in 2.0 but stopped a while before 3.0. I took a look at the job and tried to learn things on my own. So far I'm getting the grasp of it, maintaining MP while keeping hate. I was looking at this for macros, hoping the OP would update the main post.

24 pages is a lot. If I missed a thread please point me to it but I'm trying to gather up any useful macros for this job that I do not currently use on WAR and PLD (both 50 but still have all the stuff ready to go.), I have a general idea of what I want to use but you often find very rare and golden egg macros.

In PvE never use macro's unless addressing the group to incoming damage or using certain abilities to help mitigate.

In PvP I have 3 macros. (DPS) Blood weapon+Bloodbath+ Convalescence (Melee Def) Shadowskin+Foresight+Parry buff+Blood Price (Magic Def) Shadow Wall+Dark Mind+Blood Price.

These all have a /wait 1 in between to be used effectively. Using this macro's while using keys and clicking may ofset and cancel certain skills so it may be nessecary to click it several times to make sure. In any situation you never want to macro, but use each ability as needed. That's very very easy to do in PvE. In PvP things are incredibly fast pace and can last a matter of seconds so you need to burst skills.