Quote Originally Posted by pandabearcat View Post
It just feels kinda boring spamming soul devourer.

I KNOW to use the syphon combo. If you guys read my posts, I use it exclusively. The problem is this still nets you roughly 2 dark arts a minute...kinda poopy.

I was hoping for more nuanced and liberal dark arts usage, esp since your defensive cds aren't actually useful unless you save DA for it, and Dark Passenger is an added mana drain.

I just feel that dark arts is way too little of an improvement for way too much cost, aside from using it with cds (and I'm assuming carve).

PS, do you guys spam delirium or go soul devourer? Soul is less potency but gives you healing. Do you notice the healing at all?
Only Dark Dance and Dark Mind are tied to DA. Shadowskin and Shadow Wall are useful all the time.

I use Delirium when I'm pretty topped off, and to keep the debuff up if there's no MNK.
I'll use SE if I feel like the heal won't be overheal and damage is a consistent.
The heal is noticeable but not really significant.

I get as much DA-SE as I can, but yea you do have to save it for CDs sometimes.
It's not that liberal, but I feel most of the DA effect is significant enough. I'd like if DA-SE gave more healing though.

Don't use Dark Passenger on single target. It's really not worth the mana.
And it's not a mana drain for AoE because of Blood Price.

There are a lot of fights where you can turn off DA to regain some mana, with minimal to no dps loss.
The biggest one is Ravana Ex. When tanking Rav Ex, I toggle Darkside a lot because there's a lot of waiting around between phases (and his damn reflect shields).
There are places to do that in most of the Alex fights too.

If they decide to buff DRK, then reducing the cost of Dark Arts would be pretty great.
It would be nice if it could be used more when Darkside already adds a drain.
But as it is, you can maintain with every 3rd combo which makes it a constant thing to do.

Add in proper Blood Price and Sole Survivor usage, as well as good Dark Side toggling, you get it a good bit more.