is Slow worth it?Follow

I Like it. I actually use it alot in battlegrounds and pve kiting, however I dunno how good it is in Arena's yet.

From a Warlock's perspective, yes, it is worth it. After a mage casts Slow on me, I already know I'm going to die.

I might've missed something, why is it that slow kills locks?

they cant move to get away, their cast times are increased.

Also if you have slow, you have Imp CS. wich silences them for 4 seconds and keeps them from casting shadow (ZOMG not many lock spells that arent shadow!) for 8 sec.

Edit: And if they do cast fire, well low and behold, it takes 2x as long.

Also, to whoever says its mana intensive: Cost the same as blink. but you dont have to blink cuz THEY ARE SLOWED HAHAHA. Also with a 10k + mana pool, what does ~650 mana get you? Answer: 15 seconds of pure pew pew, while everything your enemy does it at HALF speed. That means that warrior is only gonna swing on you 2x tops before he dies, IF your inane enough to stand within his reach. That hunter isnt gonna autoshot you 900 times in 10 seconds either.

Again, it really matters about playstyle, Ice is King over all, especially if you have or are still developing your skill.

Not to mention you get a 50% bonus to ALL spells crit, and 25% of your intellect as spell dmg, and 15% bonus on your int, 30% mana regen while casting, huge threat reduction, etc etc etc.

Oh and You still Pop off 5k instant pyros =o.

Now your spell dmg needs to be around 1k to see the full power of the build too, wich sadly i have not attained, yet.



Edited, Dec 16th 2007 6:59pm by orickruns

It works quite well on chasing druids who just shift out of all movement impairing effects. Cast slow on them, they shift out of it and back into travel form, cast slow again.

Slow rocks. I love it in PvP. It's like an instant cast frostbolt + curse of tongues in 1 spell.

Out of PvP I never used it. I'd slow the odd mob here or there, but honestly, as a mage I burst down my target much more often than I kite it. It does make kiting easy enough that a 2 year old can do it.

But fear is easily CS'ed without slow, so really, I don't see the great benefit against locks since their instant dots remain instant.

If they are not affliction locks, then they only have 2 instant dots (affliction has 4), so it doesn't save you there. It just gives you a little more time. I am *not* saying that slow rocks locks, I AM saying that slow rocks healers. ;-) Watch that flash of light take 3 seconds... holy light takes a half-hour, etc. I also use slow on melee classes that like to run up to me and kill me. It is *amazing* in WSG to put on a flag carrier (like exhaustion, but undispellable by a mage).