Dervish



The Dervish is a profession available in Guild Wars Nightfall. The class has been described as "a scythe-wielding holy warrior".

General
The Dervish is a close range fighter wielding a scythe capable of hitting multiple opponents and utilizing enchantments to deal damage, cause conditions, and protect and heal itself. Many of its abilities strike multiple foes, allowing it to be a fierce combatant on the battle field.

The Dervish also has the ability to temporarily transform into 'the physical embodiment of a god'. This consists of 5 Elite Form skills, each referring to one of the five Gods of Tyria. This is incredibly useful in combat. The scythes deal a very respectful 9-41 Damage max, and have skills that allow them to be fair healers of themselves with other abilities that can damage and condition their opponents in very valuable ways. Such as crippling them or making them burst into flames. With a strong offense in spells and damage, along with healing spells supplemented with the ability to turn into the avatars of gods, and strike multiple opponents,the Dervish is a great profession.

One must remember that most of the Dervishes skills only affect those Adjacent to him or her.

The Dervish armor consists of robes, which include bracers for the hands and hoods which symbolize their humility to the gods. The armor has the same AL as that of a Ranger or Assassin.

Attributes

 * Mysticism (Primary) : Whenever an Enchantment ends on you, you gain 1 Health for each rank of Mysticism and 1 Energy for every 3 ranks of Mysticism.
 * Mysticism skills
 * 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.
 * Scythe Mastery skills
 * Wind Prayers: No inherent effect. Many Dervish Spells, especially those dealing with movement or cold damage, become more effective with higher Wind Prayers.
 * Wind Prayers skills
 * Earth Prayers: No inherent effect. Many Dervish Spells, especially those dealing with defense or Earth damage, become more effective with higher Earth Prayers.
 * Earth Prayers skills

Profession Combinations
See Secondary professions for a Dervish

Related Articles

 * Skills quick reference
 * Skills by category
 * Armor types
 * Armor crafting quick reference
 * Collector armors
 * Collector weapons
 * Unique items quick reference
 * Scythe
 * Form
 * Effective dervish guide

Trivia
The Dervish may be inspired by Sufi Muslim ascetic orders, roughly equivalent to monks, better known by the Persian name Darvish. For more information, see the Wikipedia article Dervish.

The Dervish of the Mevlevi order are sometimes refered to as "whirling dervishes".

Much like 'druid', 'monk', 'knight' and 'paladin', the word 'dervish' has acquired certain connotations in the context of roleplaying games that have diverged from the word's original meaning; more specifically, RPG dervishes are generally agile warriors. The Word dervish appeals to some as the sand dwellers that are agile assassin like but they have more of missionary or warrior of the gods image to them

"Girlfriend of a Whirling Dervish" is a song written by Harry Warren.