Quote Originally Posted by Drtoxicmedica View Post
Are you literally running out of mana or sitting on a decent amount? I find once I know the fight well I can usually run my MP pretty low without accidently losing darkside should at least be able to DA SE everyother combo or so.
Try to stay around 50-60% unless I absolutely know I'm not going to want to use it soon, need to burn something down fast, or want a big self heal.

But it shouldn't make any difference, spending all your MP doesn't make you get it back any faster, so as long as I'm not running out of MP completely, keeping myself at 20% isn't going to make me regen mp faster for more DA+SEs.

It takes ~15s for 2 siphon combos to cover the cost of 1 dark arts. So assuming blood price was going to cover the cost of darkside every minute (kinda doubt it against a single boss), we only generate about 4 dark arts worth of mana per minute if we have 100% up time on the boss. 1 DA is going to be for C&S and another DA's worth of mp is going to dark passenger. Which leaves at most 2 DA + SE's per minute under the best conditions. Even throwing out sole survivor on adds isn't even going to give you another DA's worth of MP to use.