The Dancing Dervish

The Dancing Dervish is a unique Reaver Sword.

Modifiers

The Dancing Dervish grants level 15 Manifest Dancing Dervish. Manifest Dancing Dervish will be supported by any applicable support gems socketed into The Dancing Dervish; it is not necessary to have the sockets be linked together. The manifested sword does not deactivate when swapping to different weapons, however, the weaponslots remain disabled while it's active.

While The Dancing Dervish is manifested, the player character is considered unarmed and is affected by Onslaught, therefore effects such as Facebreaker's, Doryani's Fist's, or Hollow Palm Technique's unarmed damage bonus will take effect. As soon as Rampage ends, the manifested weapon will vanish and the character reequips the weapon reenabling the weaponslots. The Minion itself has a lot of damage reduction while it's active and will not die that easily. A little bit of minion life regeneration suffices to keep it alive and healthy.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.17.0	Removed the Prophecy mechanic from the game, and moved many of its rewards to other content. The skill granted by The Dancing Dervish is now called "Manifest Dancing Dervishes" and manifests two copies of the Sword. Existing versions of The Dancing Duo are affected by this change, and no longer have "Manifest Dancing Dervish also manifests a copy of Dancing Dervish". The Dancing Duo can no longer be acquired. The Dancing Dervish's "Rampage" modifier now also has "Melee Hits count as Rampage Kills", allowing players to easily build up a new rampage streak without having to kill monsters. This stat will not affect you while rampaging as Dancing Dervish disables itself on rampage but the existing behaviour where the minion generates rampage kills on unique hits is still present. The minions summoned by Dancing Dervish now use the new, channelled version of Cyclone. Their movement speed and AI have also been adjusted to feel more proactive while clearing.
3.11.0	Basetype Base attacks per second is now 1.5 (from 1.45), Implicit now grants 60% increased Global Accuracy Rating. Basetype's Damage increased to 62-104 (up from 52-86) The Dancing Dervish now has 130-160% increased Physical Damage (from 160-190%).
3.1.0	While Manifest Dancing Dervish is active, the Dancing Dervish now has a 25% chance to grant you a Rampage kill when it hits a unique enemy. The minion created by this unique can no longer cross unwalkable gaps. These changes affect all versions of the item.
3.0.0	'''The following changes affect existing items automatically:''' Improved the behaviour of the Manifested weapon minion.
2.6.0	Base type implicit mod increased to 40% increased Accuracy Rating (up from 18%). Base type attack speed increased to 1.45 attacks per second (up from 1.35). Base type damage decreased to 52-86 (down from 57-95). Improved the behaviour of the Manifested weapon minion to cyclone more frequently.
2.3.0	Introduced to the game.