When to use slow

Just wondering, is slow ever truly useful? Titan ex heart can be slower, Garuda ex can be slowed, Levi ex adds can be slowed...if there is another DRG in party I will use slow, otherwise I just focus DPS.

Do you guys find any use for it?

I find more use out of cross-classing the Haymaker ability to my BRD as it's 5th cross-skill, than the Slow effect it adds. I think it was meant to be used more in low level mob fighting, because I could actually tell a difference then. It sort of loses its usefulness when you get to 50.

But Haymaker!!!! I love it! With such high Dex, I dodge stuff all the time. High potency, low TP skill is awesome! /rant

Depending on the party composition, it can be helpful for people that aren't well geared/experienced.
But if they meet both of those requirements, then you're better off bursting it down ASAP.

Unfortunately all bosses who it would be most useful against, are immune to it. Slow is most useful on bosses that hit very fast, where the 20% slow is actually noticeable.

It would also be very useful against plumes, to make the cast time a little bit longer, but sorry, that doesn't work. The heart is vulnerable to it, but the heart doesn't perform any attacks of its own, they all come from Titan, who of course, is immune to it, and can't be even be targeted during the heart phase. This also makes any damage cutting debuffs (Virus, Storm's Path etc.) useless against the heart.

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Originally Posted by JayCommon

With such high Dex, I dodge stuff all the time.

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DEX doesn't affect dodge rates...it affects Block/Parry rates...

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Originally Posted by Pseudopsia

turn 5 dreadknight is only place I can think of.

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Don't you mean Heavy?

Spiny plume garuda ex to slow down stacking debuff works a treat

I cast Lethargy on the big pudding boss in Wanderer's Palace whenever he targets someone.

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Originally Posted by RegnumMagik

Don't you mean Heavy?

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Ya you're right. Someone on my TS must always call it slow, kind of stuck.

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Originally Posted by PArcher

DEX doesn't affect dodge rates...it affects Block/Parry rates...

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Meh, guess I'm just lucky then.

It's ridiculous how much I dodge.

P.S. - Just because the tooltip for the stat doesn't say it affects dodge rate, that doesn't mean it can't affect it at all. Featherfoot increases evasion stat, can you point to me where you can see your evasion stat on the stat screen?

Not trying to refute you to be an ass or anything, but I notice the higher my Dex gets, the better I dodge. I have a hard time believing there isn't some kind of correlation.

Heavy: dreadknights in T5

Slow: the mage add in leviathan at 80% health.

Since both my heavy and slow come from lethergy, which is off of the GCD, I throw it on for those two adds and others like it.