My Dervish healing

Faithful is kind of a waste honestly by the time it kicks in it is usually too little too late and you get killed anyway. the only use it has is to give you an extra perma enchant for those +damage per enchant skills. Vital boon and signet of pious light should be all the heal you ever need honestly. every 8 seconds you can cast and then strip Vital boon for a big heal using Signet of pious light for another good heal. Much more reliable than Faithful intervention and does more to actually heal you than Mystic regen If you read earlier posts, you would have seen that I've already decided to get rid of Faithful Intervention. Also, spending 3.5 every 9 seconds (including cast time) just to heal yourself when under pressure isn't too good compared to laying down a few enchants in 3 seconds and continuing to attack for 20 seconds while being healed.

yes but you're relying on regen to heal you primarily which won't help you if you catch a damage spike or against increased damage in HM. also 5e every 9 seconds netting you a total of 279 health sounds like a great investment to me. I don't think there is a monk heal that can boast that kind of healing for that cost. considering both of them have a 1 second activation time. So you end up laying down one enchant and then the strip in 2 seconds and getting a better return than your current heals are netting you with only 2 skills slots used. Vital boon also has utility against degen in that it gives you more health until you strip it. Contrary to popular belief the best counter to degen is not regen. Yeah, I see what you're getting to with that. The thing is that Monks are in the game for a reason though. Regeneration and the health I get from Mystic Vigor (54 health per attack if 3 foes are around me ) helps a ton with pressure, and Monks can simply heal the spiking with Infuse/WoH/ZB whenever I need it. Why use up about 2 seconds when you can still keep on attacking and let your Monks heal the damage? Besides, either all the enemies are all focusing on you (which should allow easy protting), or your Monks are done for if multiple people in your group are getting hit by a massive spike at once >.>

If you are going to rely on your monks for your primary healing then honestly you can dispense with healing skills entirely and use armor buffs like conviction to mitigate damage and stack on a few more attack skills. It's sort of a fine line there. Me personally I have yet to find a monk worth their salt and so I just do my own healing 90% of the time and let their party wide heals help with mop up damage. I guess it is just a difference in play styles. As far as health gained per energy invested though it's hard to beat the Signet of pious light+vital boon combo. [skill]Healing Signet[/skill]

Divide by zero, beat that.

[skill]Healing Signet[/skill]

Divide by zero, beat that. [skill]Mending[/skill]

Can heal an infinite amount of damage

[skill]Mending[/skill]

Can heal an infinite amount of damage Over an infinite amount of time. You lose, [skill]signet of pious light[/skill] wins.

On a more serious note, Faithfull Intervention is really only good as a free perma chant for [skill]Mystic Sweep[/skill] and a couple of other skills. But sometimes I'll run it with [skill]vital boon[/skill] and [skill]twin moon sweep[/skill] or similar skills because it can be really usefull to recover from spikes. But as far as verstatility and pure healing power, [skill]signet of pious light[/skill] is your best bet in a lot of areas of the game. The casting time isn't as dreadfull as it looks.

The only reason why I use Zealous Renewal is that I usually have 3 standard attack skills on my bar: Reaper's/Wounding (8/3 second recharge), Mystic Sweep (4 second recharge), and Crippling Sweep (6 second recharge). So yeah, I do tend to have energy problems . I'll give the Zealous Scythe idea a try though.

So maybe something more along the line of this?

[skill]Mystic Vigor[/skill][skill]Mystic Regeneration[/skill][skill]Heart of Fury[/skill]

Any ideas what another good attack skill is for me to use now that I've freed up a slot? These aren't bad if you are having energy problems with your scythe attacks:
[skill]Lyssa's Assault[/skill] and [wiki]Zealous Sweep[/wiki]

These aren't bad if you are having energy problems with your scythe attacks:
[skill]Lyssa's Assault[/skill] and [wiki]Zealous Sweep[/wiki] No, actually, Lyssa's assault is bad.

I like Lyssa's Assault tbh. If you are running an EDA build, or any build with HoF you will have enchantments on you pretty much all the time (mostly that's not the problem though ><)

My usual combo is [skill]Lyssas Assault[/skill]+[skill]Victorious Sweep[/skill]+[skill]Chilling Victory[/skill]
I like to spam attacks and Lyssa has a nice +damage and it let's me spam even more skills. Lyssas Assault is baed in PvP though.... And anything works in PvE so meh... I'm against all this e-management business: Zealous sweep / [skill]Zealous Renewal[/skill] / [skill]Lyssa's Assault[/skill]. You already have Mysticism. Put that at a suitable breakpoint and it's all the e-management you need, and it's not taking up slots on your bar. A zealous scythe is also pretty standard unless there is a good reason you need something else (ebon for EDA for example).

If there is some dire rare case i need such a skill, zealous sweep gets my vote. Although i'd probably resort to running a totally different build with zealous vow in that case.