Dervish Skill Updates

Dervish

[Onslaught] : increased Energy cost to 10. Functionality changed to: "(5..20 seconds.) You attack and move 25% faster."

Okay, so pretty much a perma ias and speed buff, but still tame compared to radical skill buffs. I would suggest simply making it 33%.



[Vow of Strength] : functionality changed to: "(20 seconds.) Adds +5..35% damage to your attacks against foes not suffering from any conditions."

Pointless in PvP (which is where I assume anet intended this update to shake things up, and still less effective in PvE than before. In fact, if you look at other skills in the Earth Prayers line, you'll realize that you can hardly use another spell, such as: [aura of thorns] without loosing the effect.

If they planned on changing this skill (which was unneccessary), I would have suggested making it similar to this [shield of force]. It would sound something like: For 1...10 seconds, your next attack (notice attack skills are still OK) does +5...41% damage. And give it something like a 5 sec recharge.



[Zealous Vow] : increased Energy gained per hit to 1..7; decreased to -3 Energy degeneration.

Fair enough, makes this skill a little more appealing, but not by much.


Really though, I feel my main got shafted during this "monster update" that was designed to make unused skills somewhat usable. I'm quite disappointed at this, and have written anet a very nice letter about their bias' and that this much anticipated update has in retrospect, been of little importance to my dervish.

I've heard from ppl that buffing skills from a "strong class" would be pointless, but this update was meant to make unused skills useful. Instead of anet buffing dervish skills like [arcane zeal] and [pious renewal] which are only useful in VERY rare occassions, they buff what doesn't need to be buffed, at even more appaulling, they only buff 3 elites. Considering dervs are on the lower list with only 15 elites, we really don't need this kind of overlooking.

/pve perspective

[onslaught] - An improvement no doubt, but not awesome. More of a "I've-got-nothing-better-to-do-with-my-elite-slot" elite. I'd have added something else to it like "every second all adjacent foes are set on fire for 0..1..1 seconds).

[vow of strength] - Rest in Peace. Reducing incoming attack damage by 66%, causing attacks to miss 90% of the time, making enemy casters easily interrupted, reducing enemy healing by 20% and even causing degen are all more useful than having 1/8 of the team give up their elite slot to do +30ish % damage.

[Zealous Vow] - I've never needed more energy than a zealous scythe can provide. I guess if one could come up with a good one then this could be useful.

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I'm pretty disappointed that nothing exciting happened to Dervishes.

Anyone else think that Aura of the Holy Might should've been buffed at lower ranks in the +damage% part rather than the PBAoE damage?

Guess I'll stick with Wounding Strike being the only useful non-form Elite in PvP. I REALLY want to make Onslaught useful now though. It feels like it should have potential.

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ANet. Please give Dervs something to smile about as well.
Thanks.

First: dervishes did not need a buff at all. we have always been one of the most overpowered classes in the game. No one else auto-attacks for 100+ damage. stop complaining, other classes did need buffs.

[Onslaught] - WOO WOO! this owns face for AB, i suspect it will see its way into some GvG play as well. Just need a good way to inflict deep wound...

[Vow Of Strength] - totally useless. make it unconditional, and reduce the damage bonus if need be, but the current form kills team play.

[Zealous Vow] - this would be nice if we had expensive, low-recharge attack skills to power out... but we dont.


As far as PvE goes, im sticking with Lyssa and Wounding.

Zealous Vow is a pretty good skill on a 130 derv bar imo. Definitely beats out essence and balthazar's spirit considering u hit 3 foes=18-21dmg considering how high wind prayers is. Great for a farming build, not much better anywhere else.

[Vow of Strength] might as well read, "Changes to [Wounding Strike]"

Hell if anything VoS is only good for sins now, to boost their spikes since it affects attack skills.

They need to change it back or at least make it so its conditions on "yourself". It was a perfectly fine elite, now made useless. We already lack elites as it is.

This kind of update, really makes it easy to call them complete morons. Conditions are like what 70-80% of the game.

I swear all they want us to use to WS.

I like [Onsaught] now tho. Have a reason to invest in wind prayers.

personally I hope they change VoS back, there was no reason to change it in the place. Now its pure crap in both pvp/pve. So everyone QQ VoS!!

Let's not kid ourselves: frontline dervs aren't going to take any of this shit over Wounding Strike, period.

Zealous is good for scythe warriors, that's about it. The other two skills are complete garbage. Onslaught at 33% might see play. VoS would have to be +200% damage or more @10 Earth to make up for losing Deep Wound.

You do realise VoS no longer disables attack skills? So it can be used with Chilling, Mystic/Eremite's and other. Unfortunately, VoS should have unconditional +%dmg to make it worth using, as WS is still the most overpowered Dervish skill.

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