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Hi all, I have been thinking a fair bit about this as I love the Dervish as a profession, nothing beats getting into the guts of a group of mobs and being a whirlwind of death. Having discussed my disappointment with friends and fellow players about the lack of Dervish awesomeness the argument has always fallen back to the one issue, Derv’s rely on the human gods, how can you incorporate that with the other races…..well…..
With the human gods being scant but a distant memory, the art of Dervish scythe combat was secreted away by the order of whispers as that is the type of stuff they do, no longer being able to channel the gods instead they found a way to use spirits (like guardian/ritualist) and bind the different type of spirits to their scythes leading to elite skills which becomes full bodied possession.
Consider it like, they have standard physical scythe combat, button one attacks, a special button two attack, now button three to five are like enchants, they have a short duration and they buff (boon) up, or modify next attack, or so forth, three to five inflict some damage (or an effect) upon activation and upon switching off or removal, the F key skill is a forced removal, consider warrior, the more enchants running the bigger effect. Forcing the removal will loose the enchant/s but the cool down will still be the same.
Utility skills I look at them as signets, possibly click skills (like 8 secs of retaliation and a cool animation of blue spirit scythe heads whirling around you) and enchants, look at the enchant utility like a engineers kits, get a cool skin on the scythe and they have different effects, some are for chilling, burning, AOE heals, whole new set of skills for attacking, like equipping a bomb kit, then changing to a grenade kit, its still a scythe though, just different effects. You could run a movement speed signet and two enchant sets, or just nothing but signets and be only about physical damage. you could even add a enchant set that would throw out ranged whirling spirit scythe heads like a boomerang , adding kd to one of the next attack enchants or so forth. Elite skills would be time limited as most transformation skills, and be full bodied possession where you get some cool glowing etheric energy about you, may even give you a whole different look like some warrior spirit that increases your defense or dps.
So all, that is my idea, Bring back the dervish
Peace and take care