Wind Prayers. A Use?

In PVE, I use featherfoot grace with Avatar of Dwayna when fighting big hexes/conds applying mobs.
Use this combo also in RA, so I'm hex and condition free (bye blind, bye necro/clumsiness mesmer). But that's RA.

Some running skills are worth the spot. And Grenth grasp is used on trampling Ox sins.

All in all, this Skill tree does exactly what it needs to do: add nice utility skills to many builds. Attributes don't need to be powerful by their own.

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It isn't useless against assassins with particularly annoying enchantments (i.e. raptor packs), but in most cases it isn't worth taking.

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Please buff this baby [skill]Onslaught[/skill]. I remembered how many deaths I have to go through in order kill this boss who uses this skill.

Would be nice - 25% doesn't really justify the elite slot. Except for a Ranger, since it ties in with Expertise pretty nicely.

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Attacker's Insight synergies very well with Lyssa's Assualt. And usually you have spare att points so you can pump WP to 3 to get a decent effect of this enchantment.

Onslaught should be 50/50 and last twice its recharge. Alternatively, you could add a +33% IAS component to it.

With the loss of LoD, self-healing on frontliners begins to make more sense. However, given that the Dervish is primarily a damage machine I still don't see the point of sacrificing significant offense for defense. If I really wanted to play defensively-on-offense, I'd take a W/P with SY and WY ... not a D. If you're running a bar with EDA, Armor of Sanctity, and Mystic Regen, you're doing a lot less damage than, say, a Lyssa build.

Not if you combine your EDA with Unseen Fury. EDA + Unseen Fury has seen its uses against those nasty scarabs in Vabbi who always like to use Escape.

And Avatar of Grenth's duration should be increased for god's sake. It is useful to have somebody to remove those nasty enchantments but the duration is too short.

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The 2 above posters beat me to it

Quote: Originally Posted by Stormlord Alex 55s use Healing Breeze.
Does that make Healing Breeze good? Breeze is good for a totally different reason. This is the Dervish forum; ergo, regen is l33t, remember?

@Terra: You can run pure damage in HM also. I know a lot of you like to run around screaming, "BUT WE ONLY HAVE 70 ARMOR"; my answer to that is: you do have midliners, right? Standard builds for paragons, necros, etc. all have offense+defense components. An SS necro with Reckless and Enfeebling Blood will match, if not exceed, the utility of your single-target defenses and EDA. Hell, you could even take a warder/blindbot if you really wanted to.

My problem here is that balanced offense/defense builds typically have significantly reduced damage output compared to full damage builds, and EDA even replaces the elite. Again, If I absolutely need that kind of bar on a frontliner, I'm taking a warrior with omgwtfh4x shouts, not a Dervish.

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No, they're really not that different. Doing regen "a hell of a lot better" doesn't mean much. A pile of shit is still a pile of shit no matter how high you pile it.

The problem with breeze was always the way it healed, not the maximum healing efficiency. If you think about it, at 14 stat, Breeze heals for a potential 18*15 = 270+DF for 10e. This is actually pretty good if you compare against other non-elite heals. So why the bad rap?

If Mystic is the only defense you're taking, I don't have much problem with that. That's not what I'm seeing here though - EDA? Armor of Sanctity? Combined with Res Sig that's half of your skill bar devoted to just keeping shit alive. You're a RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOing frontliner.