Why it's impossible to drop Darkside (unless you are bad)

[DRKoftheAzure]

The reason why I am posting this thread is to prove once for all that dropping Darkside should NEVER be an issue you should even think about.

First of, Darkside is a 10% damage buff that lasts 30 seconds that can be refreshed and stacked up to 60 seconds applied to yourself on Edge/Flood of Shadow use.

So basically, every time you hit Edge of Shadow or Flood of Shadow, you apply Darkside to yourself. This should be a no-brainer.

Consider the following truths:
- Your max MP is 10.000;
- EoS/FoS cost is 3.000;
- Syphon Strike recovers 1.000 MP
- a GCD value of 2.4s
- EoS/FoS and TBN are your only mana expenders.

1# rotation: HS+(EoS/FoS -3000)>SS(+1000)>SE Total MP:8000/10000 Darkside: 24.8s
2# rotation: HS>SS(+1000)>SE Total MP:9000/10000 Darkside: 17.6s
3# rotation: HS>SS(+1000)>SE Total MP:10000/10000 Darkside: 10.4s
4# rotation: HS>SS(+1000)>SE Total MP:11000/10000 Darkside: 3.2s
5# rotation: HS>SS(+1000)... Total MP:12000/10000 Darkside: dropped.

As you can see, without considering any other source of MP other than Syphon Strike, you need to spend 5 Souleater rotations without ever using EoS/FoS to finally drop Darkside.
In a real scenario, your MP overflows much faster from natural regen, Dellirium and Blood Weapon.

You need to be completely negligent with your MP to even lose Darkside.
If you lose Darkside, it's because you deserve it.
Get Good.

Normally if Darkside was still button you had to press like Blood of the Dragon I would agree... but it's more like WAR's Storm's... Eye? Or was it Storm's Path? Regardless you need to prepare the buff like DRG's Heavy Thrust buff... or even SAM's Jinpu or Shifu buffs... and the above mentioned are all GCD weaponskills and actually flow nicely into each other, wereas Edge/Flood of Darkness/Shadow is oGCD(that have the same recast timer which they didn't even bother putting in the tooltip by the way) and don't even flow into anything really (same could be said about with Carve and Spit but more on that later on in the discussion)