DRK: How to Play?

[Age_of_Oblivion]

Remember, it makes no real difference if you use dark arts in syphon strike or soul eater, so just use dark arts before your MP gets too high.

The bump in potency increases the amount of lifesteal health you gain back using Souleater, so use it on that one preferentially. SS gains no benefit beyond potency.

[Ashur]

but he was saying with grit off. you don't gain heal back from souleater without grit

[RyuujinZERO]

A general cheatsheet for DRK-knighting

Building Threat:
Multiple targets: Use Abyssal Drain and/or Unleash
Single target: Unmend -> Hard slash combo.

Defensives
Magical tank buster?: Dark Arts + Dark Mind
Physical tank buster or under pressure?: Shadow Wall or Rampart
Lots of needling hits?: Anticipation
Really desperate and got MP to spare?: Dark Arts + Dark Passenger

General rotation:
Is carve and spit off cooldown?: Weave Dark Arts + Carve and Spit into rotation, be careful not to clip dark arts with syphon strike.
Do you have lots of MP?: Hard Strike -> Syphon Strike -> Dark Arts + Souleater
Otherwise: Souleater combo without dark arts.
Unless you gotta burn fast, MP be damned: Hard Strike -> Dark arts + Syphon Strike -> Dark Arts + Souleater

Heals plox!:
Lots of enemies near me: Dark Arts + Abyssal Drain
Just one?: Dark Arts + Souleater combo, like you should be doing anyway
Convalescence off cooldown?: Convalescence and pray to your healer to notice...

Darkside should always be active
Blood Price or Blood Weapon should be used on cooldown pretty much
Grit should be active when tanking, but disabled when helping DPS/burn phases
Crawling - Linkin park should always be playing in the background

Havn't got the 70 skills yet, at a guess though. you're going to use blood to boost duration of your buffs through delirium on cooldown, burn excess blood by weaving in quietus on LARGE groups, or bloodspiller the rest of the time, and use Blackest Night as an additional defensive cooldown)

[Grafeit]

I love this, buuut, Carve and Spit? I don't seem the have that one..

[Xehmnus]

I love this, buuut, Carve and Spit? I don't seem the have that one..

You'll get Carve and Spit from the level 60 DRK job quest. It's an oGCD skill that does 100 potency damage and returns some MP. If used with Dark Arts, it does 450 potency but no MP return.