Survivor on Dervish

Go D/W and get Defy Pain as an elite. I only have 2 survivor toons and they are both Warriors. The other method is not worrying about that and skill cap the title. If you need Leg. Skill Hunter, work on both at the same time. I almost got my Rit there, but was actually playing the game working on it and died in Heart of Shiverpeaks.

Prot Spirit is your friend!. Your a dervish, so in areas with heavy enchant, pop up some covers for when you run in.

The build I use for dervish survivor via general PvE is:
Random Attack Skill (Zealous Sweep might be best)
Victorious Sweep
Conviction
Mistic Vigor
Heart of Fury
Aura of Holy Might
Eternal Aura
Avatar of Dwayna

12+1+1 Scythe, 11+1 Mysticism, 6+1 Earth
Full survivor insignias, Rune of Vigor (best you can afford), and a Rune of Vitae.
Zealous Scythe of Fortitude, HP > longer enchants for a survivor. If you have over 600 HP, mobs won't attack you too often. Take a MM hero, a healer hero (hybrid monk with Prot Spirit) and 2 healer henchies. You will progress slowly but safely.

I hope it helps, and good luck!

If you want to get real cheesy, you can just run SoS, or grenth avatar with spears or volley. But good luck to ya if you want to survive in melee... you might want an ER protter with life or protective bond on you constantly.

I don't have a Survivor char but on my Dervish I run Vital Boon, Mystic Regeneration, Conviction and Armor of Sanctity for tanking in HM, and I rarely get below 50% health.

Faithful Intervention--- my derv never leaves an outpost without it, if it ever goes down, that means its time to play defense

many peeps have told me this skill is not worth it, but it has saved me many times

Conviction and Faithful Intervention are absolutely sexy as has been mentioned, for obvious reasons. Assuming you have AoHM on that provides a failsafe so you don't lose Conviction's effect as soon as Faithful Intervention dies (ie when you are actually taking serious damage).

For harder areas, either take a monk hero to micro Protective Sirit onto yourself or take it yourself. PS is why I don't recommend armor of sanctity BTW, it reduces damage before PS comes into effect so its pretty much useless. I'm assuming you will have the foresight to know what areas have a damage output that would lend themselves toward recommending PS, of course.

For the 95% of the game in which you have corpses, run with 1 or 2 MM heroes. Not bombers, real AotL MMs that will keep almost a dozen full health tanks in the front line with you. If melee heat ever gets on you just run straight through the nearest minion and the aggro is lost.

Never get overconfident. Even if you know you can pull two groups and live easily, Murphy's Law states that if you have even a 5% chance of dieing you will certainly get disconnected and end up furiously logging back in trying to make sure you survive.

If you want to be safer and not frontline for any specific areas, you can make a poor Derv's ER with Arcane Zeal. Not exactly a powerbuild, but sitting in the back of the party isn't a horrible idea in a few areas.

Conviction and Faithful Intervention, with a monk hero casting Protective Spirit on you. Mystic Regen is not a bad skill to have on your bar, since you'll be using Earth Prayers anyway and should always be enchanted. And I like Victorious Sweep, since it will heal you when you attack.

Just make sure that you're careful with what you're doing and you don't rush things. All the protection in the world won't help you if you overaggro and then disconnect

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/b...t10244740.html

pretty good guide, but i read the longer guide that he mentions.

either way, i now finally have a survivor derv thanks to the tips here