Should Dark Knight get a Rework?

[Shurrikhan]

Ummm Duh? You hold it until you need healing that's what I said, I didn't say you hold it until you might as well use Living Dead.

Also very weird advice to tell someone to delay their 30% mit until they've already taken damage. When your HP is low, 30% mit isn't going to do anything for you.

That's... quite the strawman. I have not said to delay use of mitigation until low HP. I'm saying that delaying a 3-minute CD by those 5 seconds it takes to fit AD w/o overhealing will cost you a lot less than delaying a 1-minute CD by 10 seconds (as would be the case in blowing your big CDs first). Blow the lower CD asap as to inflict less total delay on your kit.

Open with pre-pop TBN (unless it'd be excessive and delay AD too much to use get an extra use between bosses) and then Oblation, Abyssal as soon as you can avoid overcapping it, then (i.e., in the same double-weave as AD) slap on your larger CDs, etc. With that, you're not stuck just waiting for your HP to get low enough not to waste AD, wasting some 10-20% of its recast time (as opposed to some 3% of SW's).

Adjust, of course, based on time between pulls in your given party (and the needs of said pulls), but generally one favors throughput-per-minute over throughput-per-use for total effectiveness, and low CDs over long CDs for sync if/when conflict arises.

Doesn't change the fact that AD isn't used on cooldown like C&S is

Both are delayed until they wouldn't overcap their outputs. C&S likewise shouldn't be used at full MP, as not to overcap its reward, just as AD shouldn't overcap HP or MP. Luckily, that's easy enough to design in and, on pull, follows what you'd have done anyways (generating Darkside before popping C&S). I'm only recommending you apply the same thought to AD; by delaying SW/Ramp slightly, you can sequence it in earlier, to less overall cost to your kit's total outputs. AD should be used as near to CD as possible, not treated as a reserve tool.