How is this for Melonni's builld?

Just for a change of pace, I want to trade Koss for Melonni.
The character I'm playing is a Barbs/MoP and AP build, so I need a hero that does physical damage, and the faster the better, but I want that hero to be pretty self sufficient.

I have very little experience playing a Dervish, and being new to the game, I'm still not quite sure how well the AI will play a build vs how I would play it as a human (I don;t have access to the Elite as the human player at the moment, so I cant' fully test it).

I was trying to go for plenty of useful enchantments since they're a big part of what Dervishes are about, and synergize wtih Mystic sweep. I also wanted decent damage, both physical and not, energy+health management, and attack speed boost since the faster they hit, the faster Barbs/Mark of Pain does its damage. I read in the hero sticky that Derv Heroes don't know how to properly self-strip enchantments, so I didn't go that route.

scythe: 12 +1 +1
Mysticism: 11 +1
Wind: the rest

[Heart of Fury][Whirling Charge][Zealous Renewal][Mystic Vigor][Reaper's Sweep][Chilling Victory][Eremite's Attack][Mystic Sweep]

not the PvE versions by the way, it's jsut an artifact of the forum skill icon system.

I made the mistake of testing this in Shards of Orr with just me and a Monk and we got creamed, but I guess it's a not a fair test.

First, if you want PvE versions of skills just add (PvE) to the skill - for example, [Mystic Sweep (PvE)]

Second, way too energy intensive. You're expecting at least the first three, if not four, skills to go up at the start of each battle, which is at least 30e from a 25e pool. 4 pips of regen, sure, but that's not gonna matter too much.

Zealous Renewal is an awful, awful skill. Think of it this way - you sacrifice 10e away from your attack skills at the start of your battle. 20s later, when the battle is either over or essentially over, you get some energy back. [[Attacker's Insight] is much better - it's like Glyph of Lesser Energy for attack skills, and you get the Mysticism bonus from it ending. Similarly, Whirling Charge is nice, but the IMS isn't really necessary and the IAS is already overrode by Heart of Fury. I would choose one or the other - I personally go for HoF.

Since I'm being so critical, I'll throw my own Melonni bar out there for people to rip on:
[insert scythe elite here][Mystic Sweep (PvE)@14][Chilling Victory (PvE)@14][Wild Blow][Attacker's [email protected]][Heart of [email protected]][Faithful [email protected]][Resurrection Signet]

Chilling Victory also sometimes gets replaced by [[Victorious [email protected]]. Faithful Intervention is kinda iffy, but it's nice to have a permanent enchantment for when I use Wounding Strike as the elite.

s'ok, I wouldn't throw it out ther eif I didn't expect people to criticize, as I said, I need the advice.
regarding the PvP thing, my post mentions that it's a quirk with the forum, it seems that if you simply put the skill name in [] it seems to pick the PvP version.

AFAIK the most efficient dervish hero is the famous D/N orders guy:

[faithful intervention][arcane zeal][order of pain][dark fury][vow of piety][watchful intervention][mystic healing][dwayna's touch]

Now THAT is a bar that makes everyone else better!

But if I need to bring a dervish attacker, I use this D/W:

[faithful intervention][heart of fury][zealous renewal][conviction][victorious sweep][wounding strike][wild blow][resurrection signet]

Much less evil than the D/N, but a competent striker even in HM.

I really don't get why people insist on using Zealous Renewal. On a silly hero it will rarely be used in such a way that it provides a decent energy gain.

The OP's build isn't a bad start, and I'd agree with zelgadissan's suggested build. I've used just about the same build on my Dervish Hero for a while now, and it's a decent, solid build that they don't have much trouble using.

I don't understand why Zealous Renewal bars are considered superior to a necro spamming Orders or even an ele with Ether Renewal.

Zelgadissan's suggestions and reasoning seem sound enough. For an elite on a hero bar, I consider [Reaper's Sweep] and [Wounding Strike] to be largely equal.
I would suggest [Conviction] too, it's a sound form of defence that a dervish will really want, as their base armour level leaves them wanting. However, it does mean a spec into Earth Prayers.

If you're spamming MoP, I'd take some paragon heroes instead though.

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