Slow Missiles Class: Amazon Required Level: 12 Skill Tree: Passive and Magic Skills Requires: Inner Sight Active Cost: 5 Mana Slows the speed of incoming missile attacks. Damage Type: Magic  |
Slow Missiles is an Amazon Skill in Diablo II.
Lore[]
Through strict martial discipline and focus, an Amazon warrior can attune herself to her environment and the dangers around her, allowing her to react to these hazards with superhuman agility. One aspect of this ability is her knack for avoiding missile fire. Just as the Amazon must master the bow and javelin, she must also learn to defend herself from these same weapons. When an Amazon uses this ability, incoming projectiles appear to move slower than normal, enabling her to avoid them.
General Information[]
As its name suggests, this spell slows incoming missile attacks: for as long as the spell lasts, all missiles coming into its range will fly slower until they are out of the area of effect. The area is always around the Amazon, and moves with her. Slow Missile reduces both the speed and the damage of projectiles.
The usefulness of this skill is debatable. Slow Missiles can, for instance, come in handy in large parts of Act III where Fetish blow-darts are common. It can also come in handy in PvP situations.
Adding points into this ability lengthens the duration linearly, but missile speed and damage reduction with diminishing returns. Usually it's best to just spend one point in Slow Missiles as a prerequisite for Valkyrie.
This skill may backfire horribly on the player if used against MSLE monsters, however. Due to the game engine only able to render a finite number of missiles, having too many of them slowed on screen will make some missiles invisible and thus harder to avoid.
Skill Progression[]
Slow Missiles in game
Mana Cost: 5
Radius: 18 yards
| Level | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duration | 12s | 18s | 24s | 30s | 36s | 42s | 48s | 54s | 60s | 66s | 72s |
| Missile speed | 68% | 62% | 57% | 53% | 50% | 48% | 46% | 44% | 42% | 41% | 40% |
| Damage reduction | 6% | 10% | 14% | 17% | 20% | 22% | 23% | 24% | 26% | 27% | 28% |
| Level | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duration | 78s | 84s | 90s | 96s | 102s | 108s | 114s | 120s | 126s | 156s |
| Missile speed | 39% | 38% | 37% | 36% | 35% | 35% | 34% | 34% | 33% | 31% |
| Damage reduction | 29% | 30% | 30% | 31% | 32% | 32% | 32% | 33% | 33% | 35% |
Bow and Crossbow Skills — Magic Arrow • Fire Arrow • Cold Arrow • Multiple Shot • Exploding Arrow • Ice Arrow • Guided Arrow • Strafe • Immolation Arrow • Freezing Arrow
Passive and Magic Skills — Inner Sight • Critical Strike • Dodge • Slow Missiles • Avoid • Penetrate • Decoy • Evade • Valkyrie • Pierce
Javelin and Spear Skills — Jab • Power Strike • Poison Javelin • Impale • Lightning Bolt • Charged Strike • Plague Javelin • Fend • Lightning Strike • Lightning Fury