Quote Originally Posted by MerlinCross View Post
Really cause that's what I seem to recall the community saying at least around launch. Have to keep your buff up so make sure you're at least doing it once every 30 seconds.

But here in lies a small rub in using them. I won't go into the issues about MP but ask a different question. How often should we be actually casting them and how often should we be getting them for free from TBN? Checking how well TBN should be worked into the rotation for a DPS gain(And not like a defense skill with a bonus, no it's a free damage skill that gives a shield up front), is that you can't really test this against say, training dummies. No there's only a few places where you can practice just how many Edges you actually should be getting. Especially now if people have better gear scores and thus TBN is actually harder to break.

So I'm just asking, how many Edges should we be getting, from Normal Cast and Free TBN casts?
Normal casts range from 10 seconds to 25 seconds based on either Blood Weapon or Delirium thanks to removal of the haste effect among other things, and if you are using only 1-2-3 with Carve and Spit... as for TBN, I never use it unless I really need to but by then I have no MP to use for TBN... also using Edge and Flood after somehow losing Darkside is only a minor DPS loss, like 35 potency for Flood and 50 potency for Edge is lost... so DPS gain is so small with Darkside that you might as well not have Darkside as a a job mechanic for Dark Knight...