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The Dervish is a holy warrior who wields a scythe with a martial prowess that enables him or her to lash out at multiple enemies. Dervishes wade into battle with powerful enchantments and prayers that grant them haste, protection, healing, and elemental fury. Their faith and service to all the gods of Elona gifts them with the unique ability to become a living embodiment of a god’s will. The Dervish class is exclusive to the Guild Wars Nightfall campaign.
Bearing a pious heart, dervishes wear hooded robes and bracers as a symbol of humility. The base armor rating of dervish armor is the same as for rangers and assassins.
Attributes
Mysticism (Primary)
Mysticism, the Dervish’s primary attribute, gives you 1 Health for each rank of Mysticism and 1 Energy for every 3 ranks of Mysticism whenever an Enchantment on you ends.
Earth Prayers
Many Dervish Spells, especially those dealing with defense or Earth damage, become more effective with higher Earth Prayers.
Scythe Mastery
Scythe Mastery increases the damage you do with scythes and your chance to inflict a critical hit when using a scythe. Many skills, especially scythe attack skills, become more effective with higher Scythe Mastery.
Wind Prayers
Many Dervish Spells, especially those dealing with movement or cold damage, become more effective with higher Wind Prayers.
Common usage
Combat
Dervishes wield scythes, a weapon with a high damage output. With the ability and skills to inflict damage upon multiple adjacent foes, movement and positioning, as well as careful maintenance of enchantments, become very important for maximum effectiveness.
While dervishes can easily decimate high-leveled groups single-handedly and sport excellent prowess in battle as well as the ability to embody the gods of Tyria, they are not all-powerful or invincible. Many of their skills affect only those that are adjacent to them.
Running
The Dervish can be combined with the Assassin as a secondary profession to create an elite-runner that can escape from and survive extremely dangerous situations. The best Dervish runners primarily ferry other players through the Southern Shiverpeaks.
Tanking
While only having an initial max armor rating of 70, a dervish’s use of multiple enchantments to sustain increased health regeneration and armor makes it an excellent profession for tanking. Because of its larger energy reserve over the Warrior the dervish Obsidian Tank is becoming especially popular for high level farming in areas like the Underworld and the Fissure of Woe.