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Indeed. But that's because you shouldn't be using regen spells to counter degen in the first place. It's much more efficient to either (a) strip whatever's causing the degen or (b) wait till the health goes down a bit and then use direct healing.
Remember that degen alone takes a full 25 seconds to kill someone at 500 health, even if maxed out.
...In other words, your counters to degen are Heal Party/Light of Deliverance, Divert Hexes and Extinguish on other members of your party. There's nothing efficient enough to be worth taking on a D/E. If anything, I'd dump Regen for Vital Boon to serve the same role as Endure Pain in Warrior builds.
Well, I would think it's a matter of preference and I feel that having mystic regen will give the dervish a self heal as opposed to relying on the monks for constant condition removal. Mystic is pretty spammable. Also, in gloom especially, the amount of conditions while tanking is constantly applied no matter how much spamming the monk dish out and they will run into energy problem, if not they will have to run back and forth just to cast, which to me is a waste of time when all the degen can be countered by mystic regen. It's a rather spammable skill and with only 1/4 cast time, it's not a bad idea. Also, it can serve as an extra skill that the interrupt catches along with another spell cast that the dervish performs, which then allows the dervish a higher chance of getting glyph of concentration off. I hope you understand what I mean there.
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There's still better options for all that in Earth Magic (not Prayers!) without having to redistribute stats. Ward Against Melee, Ward Against Foes/Grasping Earth and Kinetic Armor all spring to mind.
Well, it's again a matter of preference. Ward against melee takes 10 energy, and has a recharge time of 20, and cast of 1. Now, even with 12 earth magic, that's 18 seconds. Also, it's only in the area you are standing in and the effect of 50% evasion is for melee only. This doesn't consist of spears/bows, which is most troublesome in gloom. But with mirage cloak, although it cost 15 energy, it's cast is 1/4 and no recharge. It also affects all incoming attack. It can also serve as another spammable enchantment to cover up sb/obsidian in foundry where despairs titans uses chilbains. Although I do think ward against foes is better to keep foes around you. In this instance with the dervish tanking, it would be better to have veil of thorns because it will last 21 seconds with a recharge of 20, unlike ward a foes, 18/20. Veil can act as another enchantment to cover up. Grasping isn't bad but ward against foes is better then that because in certain area, foes will keep coming and having a constant ward up or having a constant veil up will prove better. Also, certain creatures there can remove hex, for instance, heart tormentor with blessed light. Kinetic armor would work good on an ele tanking but again, with a dervish, the energy pool would likely be less and also, it's not to its fullest potential as with an ele in 16 earth magic. Dervish can stick with conviction. If you want to use all those earth magic skills, then just stick with ele primary tanking, cause that is where it will work best. That I won't argue with. |
