Suggestion with Darkness for Acolyte of Chayula

I feel like all of the problems with Darkness right now can be solved if it actually reserves damage AFTER ES and Life (reserve only on damage that would make your life go below 1), because it definitely has problems right now.

The only real way to make use of Darkness right now is with evasion build; being that it takes hits before ES and no real way of protecting it without not getting hit, in any other style of it will pretty much stay deactivated because of its extremely long 10 (or 5 seconds) cooldown, except removing all spirits means no Wind Dancer, and evasion build just feels really bad without it.

Also, the rest of the Chayula revolves around leeching (Waking Dream, Ravenous Doubt, Consuming questions) your non-Darkness resources like Life and ES, so it makes very little sense to have Darkness take the hit first and have your leeches stuck in limbo.