Secondary professions for a Dervish

Dervishes have powerful attacks and strong self-preservation skills, making them effective front line attackers.

When choosing secondary skills, always remember that native skills often have better synergy with the profession's purpose, interact better with the profession's other skills, and benefit from runes.

Dervish/Warrior

 * Wild Blow can be used as a stance removal skill.
 * The Sunspear Title Track skill Whirlwind Attack requires 6 adrenaline to use. This can be charged through only two attacks provided you hit the full 3 enemies possible, and deals an impressive +20 damage to all adjacent foes at rank 10 Sunspear.

Dervish/Ranger

 * Using Apply Poison to poison three enemies at once to quickly spread conditions.

Dervish/Monk

 * Reusable resurrection spells are often beneficial in PvE.

Dervish/Necromancer

 * Necromancer Orders work well with Mysticism.

Dervish/Mesmer

 * Wise use of Physical Resistance, Elemental Resistance or elemental Mantras can add additional survivability to solo or tanking builds.

Dervish/Elementalist

 * The defensive enchantments of the Earth Magic line, such as Armor of Earth, Stoneflesh Aura and Obsidian Flesh, allow exceptional Tanking in the more difficult areas of the Nightfall campaign, such as the Domain of Anguish.
 * The conjuring skills (e.g Conjure Lightning) can add around 10 damage to a Dervish's attacks without heavily sacrificing anything out of other attribute lines.

Dervish/Assassin

 * Shadow stepping Skills such as Shadow Walk are useful for coordinated spikes.
 * Dash can be used as a no-attribute speed boost.
 * Disrupting Dagger is a useful interrupt.
 * A popular running secondary for a dervish.

Dervish/Ritualist

 * Repeatable resurrection spells are often beneficial in PvE.
 * Splinter Weapon can be combined with a scythe for massive damage against mobs.

Dervish/Paragon

 * Ebon Dust Aura can be combined with low cost spear skills like Barbed Spear to effectively spread the Blind condition.