DRK at 60?

[BlueThunder]

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True, it's about discovering what moments Blood Price should be used for maximum benefit, but you cannot count you'll have Blood Price ready for every single of those moments.

Dark Arts consumes the same amount of MP that you recover with 2 Syphon Strikes, and it needs to be used at least twice every minute: For your Enmity Combo and for Carve and Spit. You'll also spend during those 60 seconds the MP equivalent of Syphon Strike recovery in 2 Dark Passengers (strange that a CD would spend resource for its use). You're left with a few Syphon strikes left that would actually recover the MP you've used, and not even the "full" recovery since Darkside keeps draining your MP constantly, and your MP regen in combat is slightly lower than what Darkside consumes.

[EdwinLi]

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Well Dark passage isn't something I let loose on Bosses due to its Large MP consumption.

I find Dark Passage to be best saved when Tanking Multiple enemies or at least when I feel there is enough MP to use it on multiple enemies due to its nature as a Multiple hitter.

Plunge serves as a better weaving skill to use when dealing with bosses since it doesn't consume MP nor TP and does 200 potency with it having the same cooldown time (30 sec cooldown) as Dark passge. It put less stress on my MP this way and saves plenty of MP for other uses.