Quote Originally Posted by Giantbane View Post
Unmend is currently the absolute best thing you can do as a DRK when you're out of TP. It's the most damage/mana move we have. And don't overstate the amount of damage we get from mana. All excess mana gets dumped into DA + Soul eater. It takes 5 unmend to use that much mana. So for every unmend, you're losing the potential to do about 32 potency worth of damage (DA souleater adds 160 potency, 160 / 5 = 32). This isn't really destroying your damage.
hard slash: 150 potency, syphon strike: 250 potency, delerium: 280 potency, Da'ed souleater: 400 potency.
unmend: 150 potency.


150x3 is 450 potency, 150+250+280 is 680 potency, 150+250+400 is 800 potency.
150x5 is 750 potency, 150+250+280+150+250 is 1080 potency, 150+250+400+150+250 is 1200 potency.

what?
you were saying? tp or mp is irrelevant. a resource is a resource. don't cherry-pick if your trying to make an argument.

Blood weapon is irrelevant. You use unmend when blood weapon is on cooldown so you don't have to use it while blood weapon is up.
irrelevant, blood weapon spamming unmend would destroy our mp, the point is that we don't get mp steal (for obvious reasons)

I'm not saying unmend is the be all/end all. I would prefer we had a stronger/single target version that would result in less of a DPS loss (and also applied a useful debuff for some much needed utility). But barring that, it's functional and what you should be doing right now.

Clemency/Stoneskin are good, but sometimes you just want to do more damage. PLD has limited/no options for this now. It's not really in any better state than DRK as far as TP is concerned.
clemency and stoneskin can potentially save you from a hard hit. unmend doesn't do that at all. a pld could spam stoneskin, bottom out on mp, and be none the wiser. DRK spams unmend for too long to regain mp, and darkside falls off and they have to spend a few seconds resources starved again trying to get to a safe threshold recovering.