Help me chose a melee profession

I've owned Prophecies+EoTN for 2 weeks, and decided to get the other campaigns.

so far I really enjoy playing an Ele and a Necro MM. They fit my style of lots of damage to many people.

I'm playing with a PBAoE build for my Ele (using [Stone Striker] as the cornerstone of my melee survivability), but I also want to make a true weapon based melee character.

I believe once I have all campaigns my choices are warrior, dervish or assassin, and maybe a combination of them would make a great combo.

what are the combos that work "best"? Derv/W? Derv/A?


I'd like a pretty resilient character, which is why I tend to think Dervish primary rather than Assassin. Planning on soloing this one a bit (with Heroes)

Play Warrior. They offer huge damage capabilities and slots spare on their bar for utility/support.

[Save Yourselves!] Is an example.

go derv. you said you like AoE and scythes hit up to 3 foes and can still use "SY!".. earth prayers > NM PvE i solo tanked shiro the whole time my team got bonus during GoM...with AoB! and he was at about 10-15% health when they finished... in ya face AoB haters!

ps:AoB is a great skill especially for h/h it has 3 things every derv build needs and allows the rest of your bar to do whatever you want it to do

Derv Primary, They can do anything except cast spells but they can do more damage then a fire ele anyway!

Since you've got eight character slots, why not make one of each and see which one you like better?

If you still drool for my opinion, I would say Dervish.

If you want my opinion, it would be warrior due to their insane armor level and playing them will help you understand a lot of game mechanics.

Survivability: Warrior
Damage/AoE: Dervish

I would suggest Warrior because I believe them to be more versatile than the other melee professions.

Dervish! Assassins can be fun but they're very squishy for melee and can be easily screwed over if a chain is interrupted, and I find Warriors to be flat-out boring to play. But I absolutely love Dervish, and I'm going to disagree with the poster above me and state that my opinion is that Dervish is the most versatile melee profession.