Quote Originally Posted by Link594 View Post
Dark Knight isn't a priority based system at all. Your rotation is very simple, its Hard Slash, Syphon Strike, Souleater. You Bloodspiller when you have enough blood gauge, and you dart arts when you have enough MP. You use Plunge and Salted Earth and Carve and Spit on recast and thats it. It doesn't matter when you Bloodspiller or what you Dart Arts, (with the exception of Carve and Spit) What priority are you talking about? The only priority in the entire class is Dark Arts Carve and Spit. As long as you aren't capping on MP or Blood, you are doing as much as the class allows. What is the whole picture for you?
You have 50 Blood. Blood Weapon/Price have 7 seconds left. Delirium is going to be ready to use in 5 seconds. Do you Bloodspiller? You have 2400 MP, your last hit was Syphon Strike, Carve and Spit is not ready yet, The Blackest Night is. What do you press? You have 50 Blood, You have less than 1320 MP, you have 4 targets. What do you press?

Except its not where Unleash is at. You aren't supposed to use Unleash at all, are you really telling me you use Unleash to establish enmity? You can take it off your bars and your performance wouldn't drop. Power Slash has a use, Unleash doesn't. They aren't comparable at all.
Unleash is a x 20.6 enmity move. Abyssal Drain is x5. 1030 vs 600. I will Unmend pull if things are too spread, I will Abyssal Drain pull otherwise, the first ability used once everything is in range is Unleash. Possibly twice, depending on what sort of DPS I have. After that, I will Abyssal Drain.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/wiki/enmity

You don't pair it at all, Dark Passenger is a waste of MP. Some people don't even have it on their bars. Same with Unleash.
During a Blood _ Quietus spam period on trash you are generating FAR more MP than you can spend on Dark Arts Abyssal Drains alone. You could Dark Arts Quietus itself, but then Dark Passenger is worth more potency at that point, and DADP worth even more.
The MP is more wasted by letting yourself hit 100% and gain nothing. You could also just keep doing ADs and not bother with Quietus, but then you're depriving yourself of raw potency, MP, self healing, and mitigation.
Some people don't have Limit Break on their bars just because the purpose of it is scarce. Doesn't make them right.

Except Power Slash combo and Souleater have different functions. One is to establish threat and the other is to do damage. What would you do if you wanted to do damage without establishing threat....like an OT does?
If all the tanks only have enmity combos because we rolled everything together to save buttons, what does it matter? Again, it's an insane suggestion I admit, it's just also the logical conclusion of you wanting to roll things into one for being even slightly similar.