Dervish melee boss farmer

k.. thanks for ur comments.. i`m also now trying it out on other bosses. (i will update the 1st post shortly)

The thread has had a nice update and i`d like to hear some more comments about my build thnks

this looks very promising, i haven't been on the game in awhile, but i will try this soon.

pffff you suck anyway ... (good job m8 )

lmao.. more comments pls.. (btw fiddler is my guild leader ;P)

still on noob island but looks good.

well.. don't get me wrong, but what do u want to hear? "great job for soloing a melee boss with stupid ai, after taking down the mob with a whole group"?

you could easily achieve this with almost anything.. mo/me, n/any, e/any, even with a mesmer..

anyways.. nice, extensive guide..

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Nice build, I didn't see acolyte of melundra on there, so I went ahead and tried (but I switched out Avatar of Melundra for Lyssa for extra dmg) and killed her quite quickly, although I may have been lucky, once I had the hench flagged away her avatar dropped so no extra health and she started bleeding.

k cool, thanks for telling me, i must have skipped accidently while going through the acolytes.. i`m still trying on alot of different bosses, the listed are what i done so far .. not much time to do so atm tho coz of new years etc.. btw HAPPY NEW YEAR !!

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Nice Guide, Detialed i like guides with pictures i'm lazy and dont like reading :P

Nice guide and build. But just a question - is it better than the W/N grenths build? Or worse?

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Thanks for the guide -- it worked!

I'm trying to farm Suli's Scythe and the dam boss is not dropping it (6 runs already) .... guess i gotta be more patient.

ye been a while since i got a green too.. i checked updates to see if drops are still split even if hench are far, didnt find anything.. i guess we`re just unlucky

Okay your combo is cool. Personally I run a D/W and use in 7 slots all D skills. The reason I do this is because of how they Build upon each other and keep the Dervish moving. I have collected all of the skills for the Dervish including all the Elietes for that Profession. In so doing I found three Warrior skills very beneficial to the Dervish Class, these skills are Wild Blow (this skill has proven very beneficial to me ecspecially when dealing with the Margonites and wanting to do some serious butt kicking), Victory is Mine (nice boost on this and the benefits are nice, the downside though is its an Eliete skill and you're only allowed one, and last one that was nice was Watch Yourself (now this is a GREAT skill to start this particular class with and I used it for a very good portion in the game, it was only very recent that I changed it out). But the way your skills are set up is decent but I would think more along the line of the quickness of the Dervish class versus the Strength of the Warrior.

Okay I noticed the issues that you were having with the Avatars. Their is a bit of a trick here regarding these Avatars and I only had an issue with Greneth the rest fell like clock work. I also killed these solo with just a handful of Hero's.

**Dawyna - the secret I feel with this particular Acolyte is don't draw her out to you too quickly. Take your time, pull the guards in the front of the Gate where she is. But when it comes time to kill her focus solely on her no one else and hit her with the Big Guns (Wild Blow disrupts her and don't neglete the Dervish Defenses either such as VITAL BOON {this skill is needed all the time, boosts the HP and it has a nice touch when it wears off}but look at Mirage Cloak as well as Conviction and Armor of Sanctity. Take a look at your Runes as well and focus on the recovery aspect. Many, many people are very concerned about the Energy Recovery rate of the Dervish but don't realize that Vow of Zealous Renewal is not the Answer, it is a solution only until you can get Lyssa's Assult. Keep your heals up for yourself and go at her with Victorious Assult and keep hacking she will fall.

*** Lyssa - I love hunting this Acolyte I get a real charge out of her and I love just going out their and clearing her little Fortress all by my lonesome. To do this you gotta focus on the Walls first. Come in on one side, the Acolyte is in the center of the Fortress so immediately pull the inital guards at the entrance to you so that you can take them out, I feel that the best way to stay on top of this particular mission though is go in with an Elementalist (nuker is best I haven't played with the Earth based ones yet in this mission to judge their sucess). Once you take out the entrance Guards go immediatly to the nearest wall, get your party to follow you make sure they don't draw the Acolyte. Clear out the wall, you may have a few roamers come into the area that you cleared out initially. Take them next. Now to kill the Acolyte you have to focus on her, she hits the hardest and is the strongest. So nail her hard, look at Vistorious sweep again, Vital Boon, the shields I mentioned and go at her hard and strong. If you have Balthazar's Avatar by now this is the way to nail her hard.

**Grenth - now this guy was the hardest and his skill stripping ability is the hard one to beat unless you turn it to your advantage. Again don't go directly in pull the initial and don't pull the Acolyte. When he attacks he'll attack with great force and strip everything, try to go at him with the Avatar of Melandru equipped and put up all your enchants that when stripped do damage to him like Aura of THorns, Dust Cloak, and the mighty Staggering Force. I will not deney that this guy is tough, but he can be taken. I was actually at one point thinking about trying him with your Ripost Combo and would very much like to know how that stacks up when instead of the Sword you try the Axe and you use the Eliete Warrior Skill called Decapitate. Also because of the power of this guy use two monks. And try with all your might to run to recover hp and nail him quick and hard. If you can't beat him run, to recover and hit him in a gurilla like fashion.

Another thing regarding all of the Avatars, is I have found that the Deathbringer Scythe that drops right near the Acolyte of Lyssa is really nice to take out these Acolytes just be certain to add a little more armor to compensate for the -10 armor while attacking of this scythe. If you are able to Mehdi's Vow will eventually become probally the end all be all of the scythes and should be a staple right now to the Dervish. But your combo is decent just don't charge in and try to ruch the Boss.

Great Build, great guide.

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