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

 * Sprint or Rush can be used as a speed buff.
 * Wild Blow is also very useful, as its drawbacks are easy to avoid, and critical hits are more powerful with a Scythe.
 * Dervish does not have interrupts and stance removal skills. Warrior secondary offers them in the form of Melee Attacks: Distracting Blow, Distracting Strike, and Wild Blow.

Dervish/Ranger

 * Symbiosis synergizes well with the Dervish practice of having multiple enchantments up during combat.
 * It is very tempting to consider using a scythe to spread poison with Apply Poison. However, the health degeneration of poison alone is not worth the skill slot (compared to other Dervish skills that deal damage), even with no attribute points diverted away to Wilderness Survival.

Dervish/Monk

 * Reusable resurrection spells are often beneficial in PvE.
 * Healing and Protection Prayers are vastly inferior to Earth Prayers as self-heals for a Dervish primary.
 * Draw Conditions combines well with Avatar of Melandru.

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.
 * Channeling can be useful on a close range caster.

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.
 * You can combine Grenth's Fingers with Conjure Frost for extra damage.

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

 * Sight Beyond Sight can be paired with Extend Enchantments for immunity to blindness.
 * Splinter Weapon can cause tremendous pressure in areas of PvP such as Heroes' Ascent. However, it is recommended that you have a different party member bring it.
 * Repeatable resurrection spells are often beneficial in PvE.

Dervish/Paragon

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