Quote Originally Posted by pandabearcat View Post
Where are you getting the mana for that?

Lets assume no blood price for now, and full grit/darkside.

in 60 seconds you get 8 full syphon combos.

Like people have previously said, you use 3 syphons for darkside.

You use 2 syphons to pay for dark passenger, which is more efficient than darkside.

This ends up with 3 syphons remaining. Of course you are still starting with a full mana pool, so in shorter fights you can use more, but even with blood price, starting from 0 or near 0 mp, you will only get 2 dark arts a minute, MAYBE 3.

And then at 60, I'm assuming you use 1 of those dark arts for carve.

So then you have 1-2 left. If you have to use any of those for a defensive, you're left with 0 or 1 DA a minute for souleater.

EDIT: also I'm confused on how salted earth works. Is it a one time hit? Is it a dot like shadowflare? Its confusing to me.
Here's an example minute:

HS > Spin > DA+PS. Pop BP. HS (DA+C&S) > Syphon > SE. Salted somewhere in there. Scourge. HS > Syphon > SE. HS > DA+Syphon > SE (Better to activate DA before the Syphon generally). HS > Syphon > SE. HS > DA+Syphon > SE. Scourge. HS > Syphon > SE.

And that gives 5 seconds to spare, I believe. That's 4 DA in there, with your MP nearly full still. I could still use it at least 2 more times without being in danger of running low on MP. And you've probably noticed I don't have Delirium in there. That's because it's only 20 Potency higher than SE and the extra HP, even without DA, is more beneficial when MTing, IMO. If there's no MNK, I'll mix a DE in there.

You don't have to keep your MP at full.