It’s hard to believe that spending health for damage would be an option nowadays for PvE. It feels like the devs don’t want to allow us to troll our healers, even if 3% per GCD doesn’t sound like much. If it was a more significant amount that would ideally deter us from abusing it, it’s still something that’s someone else’s problem to deal with rather than our own problem. Maybe someone who has been playing the game for a while can comment on how things were back when Dragoon had Blood for Blood?

I also wonder how the combos would work with the mana economy and the burst phases - would it we be worth it to use Edge to get more Darkside to do another Power Slash combo at the expense of not having that Edge be during buffs? If so, would there be any point to putting Edge in buffs unless we really have “extra” ones? It might be something interesting to think about during the filler phase, at the expense of having less button pressing in the burst windows.

I’d definitely generally appreciate more happening in the filler phase than just the 1 2 3 and Bloodspiller, so a second combo or a branching combo would be nice if it works out.