Quote Originally Posted by Pondera View Post
Such as what? I haven't leveled Dragoon myself, but I hear thats a popular candidate for pruning. Especially something called Heavy Thrust, causing slow? You'd think, this game being so mechanics based as it is, that slowing down an enemy in a raid, or speeding up your own movement, like with Fists of Wind, would be extremely valuable.
Heavy Thurs is one of DRG's combo pieces. I doubt they would remove that. Feint is the one causing Slow. And regarding Slow itself, the debate as few pages back is how CC abilities seem to be useless at endgame. Every dungeon mob from 50 onwards can't be sleeped or bound, Heavy is useless, and the only effective CC is Stun and only at Trash at that. (PvP aside, all CC abilites are useful there)

Regarding Slow specificity it only seems to affect the Auto attacks. You can't use it to slow down Magic or certain (read: most) mechanics, thought it likewise of little use and visibility. Also I think you got Slow mixed up with Heavy.

That said. Feint has a use...for exploting a loophole in Wanderer's Minuet and Gauss Barrel. The Loophole being that those abilities add cast times to ARC/BRD and MCH weaponskills, repsectibly, not LNC's so Feint remains the only option for AoE-phobic Ranged players apart form lower DPS