I am utterly baffled by this decision.

[Reinfeld]

People have been begging the devs to remove move-speed slows from trash mobs since release because they offer nothing to the game except annoyance, and yet Yoshi in his divine wisdom has decided that *not enough* monsters had slows and thus added them to the new enemies as well. Why Yoshi? Why do you hate us so?

[LTEvil]

Lol thank you for this post.

[Zfz]

It's probably built into the very root class of all mobs to have a chance to Heavy if target is mounted. That way every single enemy inherits this ability unless specifically configured to not have it.

[Nutz]

Very few if any mobs have a movement speed down ability. Players receive the debuff if taking damage (perhaps only from behind, I forget) while mounted. The mob that does it is irrelevant.

Also, the complaint was two-fold. Enemies could annoyingly slow you down and posed no threat. I believe he was trying to make the enemies more relevant rather than less.

[Cutie_McSnuggles]

Personally I think a vulnerability debuff would be better then slow. Especially if it stacked.

[melflomil]

When traversing the world now go as a bard and plaay the song that ups your residents to detrimental effects.

[SpiritMuse]

I hate this "heavy" effect with the passion of a thousand burning suns.

[Edellis]

"WORLD ENEMIES ARE TOO EASY IM SO BORED"

*makes aggroed mobs harder to ignore*

"OMG I JUST WANT TO IGNORE MOBS AND DO MY QUEST"

* ;_; *

[Delsus]

In the new areas, just fly solves all problems

[Aeyis]

"WORLD ENEMIES ARE TOO EASY IM SO BORED"

*makes aggroed mobs harder to ignore*

"OMG I JUST WANT TO IGNORE MOBS AND DO MY QUEST"

* ;_; *

It has nothing to do with difficulty. I always roll my eyes when I get hit by the debuff...im a white mage, I can instantly remove it by casting esuna, and run away at a faster speed then being mounted. Slowing debuffs werent fun in other games, they arent fun here either.

Especially since this debuff applies a huuuuuuge slow and lasts foooooreeeeeeveeeeeeeeeeeer.