Dervish tank build -- suggestions?

I will explain why tanks are baed, even in PVE.

AI targets the lower AL, then the lower Health. Thus, tanks can only be good if you plan to do tank-nuke-heal, which is very fragile in Hard Mode, as a single error of a mob sighting one of your softies will degenerate into complete wipe, cause your tanks have big AL, while your monks/eles don't, and mobs will come after your softies, letting your tank with no damage alone.

Your monks are here to heal and protect you. And they do that really better than you. Logically, you shouldn't need so much armor and defense skills, cause theirs are better (provided they have a good skillbar). However, any armor/health coming from your equipement is welcome.

Your warriors and paragons have "SY!" and many shouts giving defense to the whole party, minimizing the need of a dedicated tank. Giving AL to all your party is largely superior than stacking defense skills on one character. Monks as well have aegis, eles have wards. Any defense skill that can affect multiple people is one hundred better than self-centered defense. Any defense skill affecting the whole party is ten thousand times (*999999999) better than a self centered defense skill.

Thus, some dervish non-self targeting healing skills are good. For example, Watchful Intervention is superior ro Faithful Intervention, for the reason you can put it on your monks and not only on you so they will have an emergency heal. Imbue health can also be good for this reason.

But you should really go offensive, with attack skills, that will trigger any weapon spell / shouts /necro enchants your friends rit and paras and necros would put on you. If you take defensive skills, take some that let you do your job of slaughtering better: Melandru in conditions heavy areas with blind and weakness that could stop you from executing mobs (like plants in Vabbi that blinds you), Dwayna in Hex heavy areas (like in Realm of Torment), Lyssa to improve your killing ability.


Killing mobs fast is the best protection you need.

EDIT: it is unclear to me why you want to tank. Is it to solo farm? Is it because you die in PVE? If you die in PVE, the issue might not be that you lack defense, but more that you monks/support character skillars need improvement.