Actually, a hard rez isn't as bad on a derv as people might think in PvE. I used to use it (though to be fair, that was back when I thought AoG was good). If you don't have SY!, it can be okay. Remember, heroes are stupid, and near-wipes happen, and when they do, you'll be kicking yourself if you're the only one left and you don't have a hard rez.
I ended up swapping Chilling Victory for Mystic Sweep. Whirlwind Attack would actually have been a bad choice, because (due to being an adrenal skill) it would have interfered with my SY! spam.
However, I have to say, that PvE build Fall posted itsn't very good. It reminds me of my AoG days, when I saw +17 life stealing as awesome. Specifically, it makes me think you lack experience in what the profession can do well and what other professions can do.
To start off with, a dervish build without either AoHM or at least a conjure is just gimping itself. There's a reason everyone who uses a scythe takes AoHM. It adds an insane amount of damage.
Second, Heart of Fury is a requirement for dervishes in PvE. Scythes attack far too slowly normally for any decent DPS. Sure, you might think you're doing DPS, but without HoF, you're not. Trust me. Play as a warrior or a sin for a while, and you'll find out.
Conviction is a feeble attempt at matching the warrior's tanking capabilities. But guess what? He can go W/D and take it too, and he'll easily outtank you (technically, he can tank at least as well as you even without it). Same with Mystic Regeneration and Mystic Vigor. Any skills your dervish could possibly take to tank outside of AoB, the Warrior can potentially take as well (and more, which is why AoB sucks; even with it a dervish won't tank as well as a warrior who takes any kind of armor-increasing skill), and he'll beat you at it. Meanwhile, he'll also be doing more damage, making you completely redundant.
Oh, and you know what else? The Sin can outtank the dervish as well. Once again, it has access to the same tanking skills as an A/D, as well as a myriad of blocking skills that make it much more effective as a tank than the dervish (to say nothing of SF). And he'll be doing more damage than you as well. Seeing a pattern here?
Vital Boon essentially does nothing there except make up for the HP you sacrificed to get that armor and self-healing you don't need. But all the while, it and all the other enchantments are eating up your energy. You're wasting time and energy maintaining those when you should be killing stuff.
And as for the self-heals, why are you bothering? Do you know why there are separate professions, instead of one profession that does everything? To encourage specialization. Melee tanks and kills stuff. Healers heal. Nukers nuke. However, at the end of the day, they all try to do one thing: survive. They each do it in separate ways, however. Healers do it by keeping the damage dealers alive. The damage dealers do it by killing the things trying to kill them. And there's synergy there. 8 nukers or 8 healers or 8 melee characters is not as effective as a well-balanced party.
When you put a lot of focus into healing yourself, you're sacrificing damage-dealing capabilities. You're giving up what your profession is GOOD at to do something that another class does better. You're making yourself redundant. And in the end, you're hurting yourself more than you're helping, because while you may have a couple more HP now, those enemies are gonna live a lot longer, and do a lot more damage to you, as well as to the squishier members of your party. Even if you can keep yourself alive, it's meaningless if your party dies, because you need them to survive, and death penalty is a big problem. Those enemies aren't going to kill themselves (well, unless they've been hexed with Spiteful Spirit or something
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In other words, to quote something I once read somewhere on this board:
"You're frontline melee. Kill shit"
Can you get by with a build like you were running? Yes (I got all the way to the realm of torment running AoG and some really crappy heroes). But it'll be much worse than what your profession is capable of. If you really want to make good use of your dervish, you need to learn about the few things he CAN do better than the competition and do those, rather than trying to copy their strategy (MOAR TANKING) and failing.
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.) As you may be aware my build is centered around only dervish skills and nothing from another. Oh before i forget about your comment about a warrior using those similar skills.... it just wouldnt work out as well as it does for the derv for via dervish mystism attribute would allow the dervish to replish energy way faster and use the skills more effectively while the warrior would die when all enchantments ends for he wouldnt have enough energy for 1.) to cast them all in one go. 2.) to recast them a few secs later.