Update - 2/17

Wait so what does the test krewe actually do?

Yeah and we'll see if the duos in uw still work

get staff awhile running than get fight switch to scythe pop enchant atk with PA repeat

Can i has build?

still figuring out how it could work with Pious Assault.

One thing I'm noticing: Kurzicks are destroying Luxons at Fort Aspenwood.

Dervs are amazing amber runners. Huge health buffs + condition/hex removal + speed buffs. Fast shrine clearing is the icing on the cake

pious assault recharges itself 75% faster not all skills

There goes your theory.

+ Splinter Weapon + Withering Aura

Having a lot of fun with this build.

yap just read it, darn yap goes my theory out the door.

I don't like the ranger nerf: Asuran scan was the only thing that kept him alive. I guess splinter barrage is the only viable ranger build now.

But I do like the (possibly temporary) by Ural's ONE THOUSAND spirit hammers shout. I went UW and soloed smites with ranger: easy but a bit slow (to build and carry the army). Spiritleech alone with ~200 spirits can one shot aataxes. Awesome.

Is it me or is it after a certain amount of time the BUH copies, as well as fresh spirits, just stop attacking at all? I know it's moot once it's debugged, but if it were to remain as is, solo farming with spirits would be on a timer.

Or maybe it just happened to me only? I mean one minute I'm pumping out insane damage with my platoon of spirits, and then all the sudden they are just standing there chilling taking in the scenery. They didn't care whether I cast on an enemy or ran up and physically attacked. It was like they were on strike.

I'm getting the same thing. Made it a quarter way through the smites with SOS rit and now I can't kill even a single one. (4 ectos though, before it ran out. whee)

Don't know if this is a bug with the new update..but how did a level 1 monk get to Ring of Fire?
It has to be a sign of the five gods showing you can get to GW2 from the fire islands..

Good. I thought it was just me.

Im very happy with this update. Finally I have more Derv skills I want to try than I have bar, and I don't feel I have to run with Avatars either.

Looking forward to testing more on my little dervs, but so far they have been demolishing everything pretty easily,, and for fun I added melonni and Khamu as heroes and that was just silly good. Heros are much more efficient not stopping to cast every 10 seconds.

I think this update makes Dervish far more flexible and less dependant on one or two key skills and a few pve skills.

So far Im testing pure Derv builds and they seem to be working fine with no pieces of sky falling on my head.

Dying is so easy, even a newbie can do it! I know, I was exaggerating in that example for humor, but really AS is spoken of primarily as a way to hit through blindness, the DP remover is gravy for most of us.

My Invoke ele felt a little underwhelmed in testing. Indeed, the initial damage triggers Intensity, but the subsequent hits from Invoke or Chain leave much to be desired. I would have liked to see it balanced to work through an entire spell.

Oh
My
God

This update looks so well done and legit. I admit I had serious doubts, especially about the new Mysticism, but after seeing that they also added the + armor and basically made so many things appealling, I have a whole lotta faith restored. Despite me waiting over half a year for this, I cannot get on to experience this till after my next round of exams, hopefully stuff won't be nerfed into the ground by then. Also, although I like all of the skill changes, I think this was my favorite part:

I'd like them to take that philosophy a few steps further with other skills. Regardless of all of these updates, the real test will be to see whether or not Dervs become desired (not necessarily meta) in serious PvP/PvE.

Pious Fury

update notes:in game:?

It's 25%.

The update text on the website is incorrect.

we tested the Dervish changes, the other skill changes were regular skill updates that Live Team handles on their own