Problems with DRK - Advice needed please!

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My suggestion is to stick with PLD. If you struggle with the tank busters, have your WAR tank more particularly on inception, but as long as your sch shields you beforehand it should still be doable. There are vids for references to have a good CD for every single Punishing Heat.

SSS is a poor indicator because of the 3mins limit and you need to understand the concept of pure damage output. You can do 1k dps and still clear in a12s, it does make it easier the more dps you can output though, mainly the last phase.

However if you feel you must clear the SSS part, you want to count how many casts you can get within that 3mins duration. For example, CnS is 60sec cd, you only get to use 3 times. As long as you reach that quota, you can pretty much delay it whenever you can. This makes DACnS combo at start not optimal because you are sitting at a lot of OGCDs that you want to use asap. Scourge should be applied first mainly because you want the full benefit of it ticking for the entire 6 casts for 3mins and you are alone anyway. See the maximum cast for OGCDs you can use and you play around those more, lastly DASE as often as possible. Just don't let your mana hit sub 300 or less or your Darkside will drop.