16 Dec 2006 at 21:34 - 14
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Originally Posted by furbat
Dervishes are very self sufficient. I am not sure about the easier to play or more usefull comment. Thats really comparing apples to oarnges. Also I don't think your advice about kiting is very good. Depending on build, dervishes are probably the worst class to kite.
If a dervish makes his build to 1v1 a warrior, the warrior is going down. If the dervish is build for taking out a caster, ie avatar of grenth, it shouldn't be much trouble.
Also dervishes have no form of condition removal, so if you have blind it shouldnt be hard to take one down.
If you want to 1v1 a dervish as a warrior bring Your All Alone. Asside from avatar of melandru, the dervish should be very easy to defeat.
I was talking about higher level PvP. Dervishes are easier to play then warriors (the whole adren charging thing and frenzy/cancel and the coordinated adren spike, not to mention healing signet use makes it a lot harder to play a warrior). Also, the warrior build for higher PvP is pretty standard (damaging adren combo, frenzy/speed stance, self heal, self condition remove +- a sin teleport) and cannot afford defensive stuff like riposte & all.
The job of the meleers there is to kill targets not to win 1 vs 1 duels (flag battles aside)
The warrior is more useful there mostly because warriors are less enrgy vulnerable and can do spikes, which the devish cannot due to the slow weapon. That's why dervishes in higher GvG are mostly utility oriented and not damage.
A warrior in PvP should be able to kite a dervish. Except for Balth avatar (one of the worst avatars for PvP) the dervishes speed boosts are limited (pious haste, featerfoot, harriers and whirling charge).
While Dervish self heals are impressive, this is irrelevant for PVP where his job is to take down targets and monks can do the healing part better.
The only avatar I see that could cause problems in 1 vs 1 is indeed Melandru since it negates a lot of the damage coming from a War, Sin or Ranger. As said here before by others - you wait for his vulbnerability period and kill him then.