Dervish

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Serving the gods as holy warriors, dervishes stand confidently in the whirlwind of conflict. Martial techniques perfected in the deserts of Elona allow a Dervish’s scythe to lash out quickly at multiple opponents, surrounding the holy warrior with a swath of destruction. Initiates often learn spells of self-protection, prayers that rush a combatant into battle, and invocations that empower attacks with elemental fury. Masters of the profession can assume the form of a god, enacting divine will with holy blessings. Keenly aware of the conditions of a fight, a Dervish can reap great benefits by using multiple Enchantments. Wandering the savannahs and deserts of Elona, the faithful Dervish chants prayers to the earth and wind... and the fury of the sandstorm answers in response.

Dervish characters can only be created on accounts that have access to Guild Wars Nightfall.

Bolstered by the blessings of the gods, these holy warriors reap the benefits of multiple Enchantments. With a sharpened scythe, the Dervish can unleash a whirlwind of destruction.

–In-game description

[edit] Attributes

[edit] Mysticism (Primary)

Mysticism, the Dervish's primary attribute, gives you 1 Health for each rank of Mysticism and 1 Energy for every 3 ranks of Mysticism whenever an Enchantment on you ends.

[edit] Earth Prayers

Many Dervish spells, especially those dealing with defense or Earth damage, become more effective with higher Earth Prayers.

[edit] Scythe Mastery

Scythe Mastery increases the damage you do with scythes and your chance to inflict a critical hit when using a scythe. Many skills, especially scythe attack skills, become more effective with higher Scythe Mastery. When attacking with a scythe, you strike up to three adjacent foes in front of you.

[edit] Wind Prayers

This attribute increases the duration and effectiveness of the Dervish's Wind Prayer skills, including prayers that speed movement and lash enemies with cold damage.

[edit] Common usage

[edit] Melee

Dervishes wield scythes, a weapon with a high damage output. With the ability and skills to inflict damage upon multiple adjacent foes, movement and positioning, as well as careful maintenance of enchantments, become very important for maximum effectiveness. This can also work to their advantage in PvP.

While dervishes can easily devastate high-leveled groups single-handedly and sport excellent prowess in battle as well as the ability to embody the gods of Tyria, they are not all-powerful or invincible. Many of their skills affect only those that are adjacent to them.

[edit] Running

The Dervish can be combined with the Assassin as a secondary profession to create an elite-runner that can escape from and survive extremely dangerous situations. The best Dervish runners primarily ferry other players through the Southern Shiverpeaks.

[edit] Tanking

While only having an initial max armor rating of 70, a dervish's use of multiple enchantments to sustain increased health regeneration and armor makes it an excellent profession for tanking. Because of its larger energy reserve over the Warrior the dervish tank is becoming especially popular for high level farming in areas like the Underworld and the Fissure of Woe.

[edit] Healing

While considerably less popular usage the Dervish can be quite capable healers; with the magic of Mysticism, Earth Prayers and Wind Prayers. Healing themselves comes naturally but a dervish can quite effectively heal their party in pvp arenas. Wind prayers offer light in area healing whilst the earth prayers and mysticism have some of the most potent allied target heals.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

The origin of the word Dervish

Professions
Core: Warrior • Ranger • Monk • Necromancer • Mesmer • Elementalist
Factions: Assassin • Ritualist Nightfall: Paragon • Dervish