[DW melee] Beginner's Virulent Dervish

[Stupid_Dragon]

Which of the two builds would be better for clearing MC and getting to 100?

That’s not something I could answer because I haven’t looked deep into Contragor’s builds. Perhaps someone else.

Long story short, I am undergeared for both builds

You can’t really be undergeared for my build because it doesn’t require anything hard to get to work properly.

dying regularly to elites, but in a position where I can more or less farm the necessary gear for any of the two builds.

I heard posting GT link of your char helps at getting actually useful advice.
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To be honest, by playing these builds I understood that I do not like pets or melee. I’d rather be range or caster, but have no clue if it’s viable as dervish and I definitely don’t want to start another char before I get this one to 100.

Sounds like you’d love this

So keeping this in mind, maybe there are some other viable builds for leveling a Dervish with self found gear? I am willing to farm for needed items, if it’s not hundreds of hours. I am around lvl 40 atm.

For a cheap gear version of the build above you can try to adapt this