Slow

Skills and actions are slower. — In-game description

Slow

Effect type

Condition

Stacking

Duration

Max. duration

10 seconds

Game link

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Skills and actions are slower.

— In-game description

Slow is a condition that increases the activation time of skills and abilities, reducing animation speed by 50%. Dodge and skill movement speed is also halved for the duration. Slow deals defiance bar damage at a rate of 50 per second. Slow has a maximum duration of 10 seconds.

Related skills

Weapon skills that apply slow

•   Frigid Blitz — Axe
•   Spiritcrush — Short bow
•   Aura Slicer — Dagger
•   Deja Vu — Shield
•   Echo of Memory — Shield

Transform skills that apply slow

•   Natural Convergence — Celestial Avatar
•   Natural Convergence — Celestial Avatar

Utility skills that apply slow

•   Forced Engagement — Legendary Dwarf Stance
•   Slick Shoes — Gadget
•   Muddy Terrain — Survival
•   Impairing Daggers — Physical
•   Arcane Thievery — Manipulation
•   Well of Action — Well

Elite skills that apply slow

•   Dragon's Maw — Trap
•   Time Warp — Glamour
•   Ghastly Breach — Punishment

Profession mechanic skills that apply slow

•   Essence Sap — Stolen skill
•   Steal Time — Stolen skill
•   Time Sink — Shatter

Downed skills that apply slow

•   Essence Sap

Skills that convert quickness into slow

Primary article: Condition#Skills that convert boons into conditions

Common skills that apply slow

•   Alkar's Alchemical Acid
•   Become the Wolf
•   Electromagical Pulse
•   Electromagical Pulse 2.0
•   Might Missile 2.0 — Rocket Jump\Parachute 2.0
•   Might Missile — Rocket Jump\Parachute
•   Sanguine Shot — Blood Collectors
•   Shell Wall — Turtle Banner
•   Sulfur Pool — Sulfurthrower

Related traits

See also: Condition#Related traits

Traits that apply slow

• Piercing Light (Dragonhunter) — Traps gain reduced recharge and slow enemies.
• Weighty Terms (Firebrand) — Your Mantra skills slow nearby foes. This effect may only occur once per interval. Mantras gain reduced charge-recovery time.
• Stoic Demeanor (Firebrand) — Inflict burning and slowness on foes you disable, immobilize, or slow. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear. This trait can only affect the same target once per interval.
• Slow Counter (Spellbreaker) — Full Counter applies cripple and slow.
• Delayed Reactions (Chronomancer) — Disabling a foe slows them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear. This trait can only affect the same enemy with once per interval.

Trait skills that apply slow

•   Call of the Demon (Song of the Mists) — Strike enemies around you, inflicting conditions on struck foes.
•   Lesser Muddy Terrain (Child of Earth) — Survival. Use mud to cripple, slow, and immobilize foes.

Traits that improve slow

• Stoic Demeanor (Firebrand) — Inflict burning and slowness on foes you disable, immobilize, or slow. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear. This trait can only affect the same target once per interval.
• Leg Specialist (Tactics) — Immobilize a target when you cripple them with a skill. Deal increased strike damage to foes affected with movement-impairing conditions.
• Danger Time (Chronomancer) — Gain additional critical-hit chance against slowed enemies. This bonus also applies to your illusions.
• Lost Time (Chronomancer) — Gain alacrity when you inflict slow.

Traits that remove slow

See also: Boon#Traits that convert conditions into boons

• Guarded Initiation (Acrobatics) — Remove conditions when striking an enemy while your health is above the threshold.

Traits that convert quickness into slow

Primary article: Condition#Traits that convert boons into conditions

Version history

Patch	Changes
May 11, 2021	Duration-stacking boons and conditions now behave consistently. They directly stack durations added from all sources, do not have hidden stack limits, and generally have shorter maximum durations. With most nondamaging condition durations stacking to a maximum of 10 seconds, we aim to reduce situations in which players can become stuck in combat because of a long-duration condition, preventing them from using their mount.
April 19, 2016	The formula for animation-speed increases and decreases has been modified. Quickness is normalized to behave the same as before, while Slow has had its effectiveness reduced. However, due to the formula change, Slow will continue to have a negative impact while Quickness is in effect. Casting a skill with quickness and slow will now result in a 1.166x longer activation time, increased from 1.0x.
January 26, 2016	"Finish Them" Finishers: The stomping effect will no longer be time-scaled through effects like quickness and slow. Reviving: Reviving characters will no longer be affected by time-scaled effects like quickness and slow. Quickness and slow will no longer affect most defensive abilities. Abilities that are offensive and defensive simultaneously (such as Blurred Frenzy or Pistol Whip) will still be affected by time scaling for the time being.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Slow has been added to the game.

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