And so enchant confusion begins....

With the addition of the dervish, it will be very hard to figure out which enchants to remove from the dervish at which time, as many of their enchants have effects at the end (such as crippling, bleeding, or blindness). Now how will us friendly mesmers tell the difference between that armor increasing enchant (ex: conviction) and a hurtfull enchant (ex: Dust Cloak)?
And so the confusion (and flaming) beings......

The Enchantment handling NF elites we got are pathetic. Least Mirror of Disenchantment is great but not really usable against Dervishes. Shatter Storm might, however, become more popular; it's ability to keep up with the spam might prove useful. Lyssa's Balance is always good, if you don't get chanted up much, attractive with its low cost and recharge. Drain/Shatter Ench are useless vs constant chant spam. I think our best bet is to try to counter the chant spam indirectly through Diversion and the likes. But Necros seem way more equiped versus D-s and Me and Ne are known to often borrow stuff from each other.

But to answer your Q, we will have to do what we have always done- learn the ins and outs of the profession and find the weaknesses to exploit. Focusing too much on which chant to remove seems counterproductive. I am not suggesting to remove all regardless, I am simply saying that no1) Necros are better geared to counter D enchantments, and no2) Me don't really need to use any chant removers (even if we needed to the options are limited and they bring us back to no1), we can simply utilize Diversion, Blackout, and all the other similar piss-people-off skills we got.

I never wasted a single chant remover on a D- it's not worthwhile, unless you can keep up. But I did kill many Ds with the above mentioned and Backfire, Soul Barbs, and many other wonderful and sadistic techniques.

I find it a little hard to memorize the dervish skills; somehow the icons have been confusing. With the advention of many enchantment related skills I guess we will get to learn to deal with dervishes. Tease on the other hand won't be that effective against them imo, since they have many area damage and you'd get hit right away. Diversion is still a safe bet. Drain/shatter an enchantment before a signet of piety is good as well. It's just a matter of time until we get used to them, we did with assassins, we must do with paragons (and their utility as spike power ups) and we certainly will get used to dervishes. I still think that after this events, paragons shined the most.

Just remove them all! It's not like monks that they have cheap enchantments like Reversal of Fortune.

But yes...Dervish's skills are hard to identify. But the best way is to look for the yellow up arrow, you'll know that is an enchantment and you'll need to interrupt/shatter it.

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I'm just wondering whether Power Block can actually shut the dervish down for a couple of seconds. Seeing as how they usually center their enchantments mainly on 2 attributes, perhaps 2 strikes of echo-ed Power Block can shut most of their skill bar?

Just a thought though...

EDIT: I forgot they actually bring some Scythe Mastery stuff... in this case i just do the usual empathy kite.. i know, i suck at PvP

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