Teardown

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A teardown skill is a type of Dervish skill that removes one of your Dervish enchantments to gain a stronger effect. These skills still work if you do not remove an enchantment, but the great benefits you gain from removing an enchantment make it advisable to always have a Dervish enchantment active before using them.

— Nagozi, Expert Dervish

Teardown skills consume a Dervish enchantment for a stronger effect. An enchantment used to fuel a teardown skill is called a feeder enchantment.

Notes

• The Dervish enchantment is removed before the teardown skill's effects take place.
• The game always removes the most recently applied enchantment, so feeder enchantments will generally be the last applied before use of a teardown.
• Similar mechanics exist in other professions, where skills grant additional effects when a beneficial resource is sacrificed:
  • Monks are rewarded for losing enchantments using Contemplation of Purity or Release Enchantments.
  • Mesmers can forfeit their hexes for a benefit using Drain Delusions or Shatter Delusions.
  • Necromancers can harm or kill their minions to fuel Feast for the Dead, Putrid Flesh or Taste of Death.
  • Ritualists can destroy their spirits for Feast of Souls, Reclaim Essence or Rupture Soul.

List of teardown skills

See also: Removal effect#Skills with a removal effect

See also: List of enchantment removal skills#On self

Icon	Name	Description						Attribute	Campaign
	Eremite's Attack	Scythe Attack. Deals +1...8...10 damage and removes a Dervish enchantment. Removal Effect: Deals +1...8...10 damage and strikes all adjacent foes.	0	055	0	0066		Scythe MasteryZ	Nightfall
	Irresistible Sweep	Scythe Attack. Deals +3...13...15 damage. Remove 1 of your Dervish enchantments. Removal effect: unblockable, removes a stance, deals +3...13...15 additional damage.	0	055	0	0066		Scythe MasteryZ	Nightfall
	Irresistible Sweep (PvP)	Scythe Attack. Deals +3...13...15 damage. Remove 1 of your Dervish enchantments. Removal effect: unblockable, removes a stance.	5	0	0	0		Scythe MasteryZ	Nightfall
	Pious Assault	Melee Attack. Deals +10...18...20 damage. Removes 1 of your Dervish enchantments. Removal Effect: this skill recharges 75% faster and adjacent foes take 10...26...30 damage.	0	055	0	01212		Scythe MasteryZ	Nightfall
	Pious Assault (PvP)	Melee Attack. Removes 1 of your Dervish enchantments. Removal effect: this skill recharges 75% faster and adjacent foes take 10...26...30 damage.	0	055	0	01212		Scythe MasteryZ	Nightfall
	Pious Concentration	Stance. (5...17...20 seconds.) Prevents interrupts. Prevention cost: you lose one Dervish enchantment or Pious Concentration ends.	0	1010	0	01010		Earth PrayersZ	Nightfall
	Pious Fury	Stance. (1...6...7 second[s].)You [sic] attack 25% faster and remove 1 of your Dervish enchantments. Removal effect: this stance lasts twice as long.	0	055	0	01010		MysticismZ	Eye of the North
	Pious Fury (PvP)	Stance. (1...4...5 second[s].)You [sic] attack 25% faster and remove 1 of your Dervish enchantments. Removal effect: this stance lasts twice as long.	0	055	0	01515		MysticismZ	Eye of the North
	Pious Haste	Stance. (1...6...7 second[s].) Lose 1 Dervish enchantment and move 25% faster. Removal Effect: Run 50% faster instead.	0	055	0	01212		MysticismZ	Nightfall
	Pious Restoration	Spell. Gain 80...136...150 Health and remove 1 Dervish enchantment. Removal effect: lose 1...2...2 hex[es].	0	055	01.001	0088		Wind PrayersZ	Nightfall
	Reaper's Sweep	Elite Scythe Attack. (3...13...15 seconds.) Cause Cripple. Lose 1 Dervish enchantment. Removal Effect: cause knockdown for 2...3...3 seconds.	8	0	0	0		Scythe MasteryZ	Nightfall
	Rending Sweep	Scythe Attack. Deals +5...17...20 damage. You lose 1 Dervish enchantment. Removal effect: struck foes lose an enchantment.	6	0	0	0		Scythe MasteryZ	Nightfall
	Rending Touch	Touch Spell. Deals 15...55...65 cold damage. Lose 1 Dervish enchantment. Removal effect: target foe loses 1 enchantment and you gain 1 strike of adrenaline.	0	055	00.750.75¾	01212		MysticismZ	Nightfall
	Signet of Pious Light	Signet. Heals for 30...126...150. Removes one of your Dervish enchantments. Removal effect: recharges 75% faster.	0	0	01.001	02020		Earth PrayersZ	Nightfall
	Signet of Pious Restraint	Signet. Inflicts Crippled condition (5...13...15 seconds). Remove one of your Dervish enchantments. Removal effect: also causes Cripple to foes nearby your target and recharges 75% faster.	0	0	01.001	02020		Wind PrayersZ	Eye of the North
	Signet of Pious Restraint (PvP)	Signet. (5...13...15 seconds.) Cripples target foe and removes 1 of your Dervish enchantments. Removal effect: recharges 75% faster.	0	0	01.001	02020		Wind PrayersZ	Eye of the North
	Twin Moon Sweep	Melee Attack. Remove 1 of your Dervish enchantments. Gain 10...42...50 Health. Removal effect: unblockable, attack twice, and gain 10...58...70 more Health.	7	0	0	0		Scythe MasteryZ	Nightfall
	Twin Moon Sweep (PvP)	Melee Attack. Remove 1 of your Dervish enchantments. Gain 10...18...20 Health. Removal effect: Unblockable, attack twice, each strike doing 25% less damage, and gain 10...26...30 more Health.	7	0	0	0		Scythe MasteryZ	Nightfall
	Wearying Strike	Scythe Attack. Remove 1 Dervish Enchantment. Removal Effect: Inflicts Deep Wound condition (3...9...10 seconds). You are Weakened (10 seconds) if an enchantment is not lost.	6	0	0	0		Scythe MasteryZ	Nightfall
	Winds of Disenchantment	Spell. Remove one of your Dervish enchantments. Removal effect: all nearby foes lose 1 enchantment and take 20...68...80 cold damage.	0	1010	00.750.75¾	01515		Wind PrayersZ	Nightfall
	Wounding Strike	Elite Scythe Attack. Deals +5...17...20 damage and inflicts Bleeding condition (5...17...20 seconds). Remove 1 Dervish enchantment. Removal Effect: inflicts Deep Wound condition (5...17...20 seconds).	0	055	0	0033		Scythe MasteryZ	Nightfall
	Wounding Strike (PvP)	Elite Scythe Attack. Inflicts Bleeding condition (5...17...20 seconds). Removes 1 Dervish enchantment. Removal effect: inflicts Deep Wound condition (5...17...20 seconds).	0	055	0	0033		Scythe MasteryZ	Nightfall