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Slow Time in action.

Slow Time is a Defensive Wizard skill unlocked at Level 16, creating a bubble where time flows slower for all enemies and their projectiles.

Background

Slow Time is presumably one of the spells the Wizard learned from the Ancient Repositories of Caldeum where she was interrupted by Valthek.

Messing with timespace is something not even the Vizjerei do any more, and is considered one of the most dangerous forms of magic.

Skillrune Effects

The following is a very quick summary. See the Slow Time rune effects page for a more thorough description of rune effects, or any of the individual rune pages for numbers, screenshots, blue quotes, and much more.

Skill Design

Slow Time with unknown (but pretty) rune effect

Slow Time creates a bubble that surrounds the Wizard. Any enemies or enemy projectiles that enter the bubble are greatly slowed. The Wizard, her spell projectiles, and her allies are not affected by the slow time bubble, giving them a huge advantage over the greatly slowed enemies. The bubble remains where it was cast, persisting for several seconds, but the Wizard can move as soon as the spell is cast, though if she moves outside the bubble monsters may again target her without their shots or attacks being slowed.

It's assumed that some boss monsters (and their projectiles?) will be immune to the slowing effect, but this is not yet known, and is subject to further balancing anyway.

This spell has been used with Wave of Force to first slow enemy projectiles, and then throwing them back at the enemy.

Video

A video of Slow Time can be seen below, courtesy of the DiabloInc You Tube channel.

Synergies

Slow Time benefits from the following Wizard passives: None added yet.

Development

Slow Time was first seen at BlizzCon 2008 when the Wizard was unveiled. It was updated ever so slightly in the demo shown at BlizzCon 2009, where it had moved down one tier in the Arcane Skill Tree, to Tier IV.

At BlizzCon 2010, Slow Time was one of the Wizard's skills in the PvP demo. Flux found it useful:[1]

One of the most useful skills in the Arena. Not just for the Wizard, but for the whole team. A Wizard who managed to cast one of these out in the center of the arena, where most of the early round action took place, gave her team a huge advantage. Enemy Barbs were nearly frozen in it, Mongrels were basically stuck there for the duration of the spell, and even other casters hated to be inconvenienced. It wasn’t as much on defense, since there weren’t many projectiles flying in the demo, but it was great to block movement.

Beta

Skill tiers were removed shortly before the beta started in September 2011, and Slow Time became a level 16 skill. When the skill system was once again overhauled for the Beta Patch 13 in February 2012, Slow Time was classified as a Defensive skill (but stayed at level 16).

Previous Versions

See the Wizard skill archive for more details on previous versions of Slow Time and other Wizard skills.
Or see Slow Time (BlizzCon 2008) for the original version of this skill.

Media

Slow Time can be seen in action on video here:

You can find pictures in the Diablo III screenshot and picture gallery:

Shooting Electrocute out of a Slow Time bubble.
Slow Time with Wave of Force to throw spells back at casters.
Disintegrate cast from within a time bubble.
Crimson rune.
Obsidian rune.
Indigo rune.
Distortion effect from the slow time field.

References

BlizzCon 2009 Full Wizard Skill Trees
BlizzCon 2010 PvP Hands-on Report
Zediono's translation of JudgeHype's pre-beta report -- IncGamers 1st Aug 2011
Silva's Wizard Runestone Effects -- IncGamers 5th Sep 2011
Wizard Active Skills -- Blizzard's Official Diablo III Site

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-A video of Slow Time can be seen below, courtesy of [http://www.youtube.com/Diablo3Inc the DiabloInc You Tube channel].
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 ==Skill Design==
+[[image:Wiz-slowtime-rune1.jpg|thumb|350px|Slow Time with unknown (but pretty) rune effect]]
 Slow Time creates a bubble that surrounds the [[Wizard]]. Any enemies or enemy projectiles that enter the bubble are greatly slowed. The Wizard, her spell projectiles, and her allies are not affected by the slow time bubble, giving them a huge advantage over the greatly slowed enemies. The bubble remains where it was cast, persisting for several seconds, but the Wizard can move as soon as the spell is cast, though if she moves outside the bubble monsters may again target her without their shots or attacks being slowed.
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 This spell has been used with [[Wave of Force]] to first slow enemy projectiles, and then throwing them back at the enemy.
-[[image:Wiz-slowtime-rune1.jpg|thumb|350px|center|Slow Time with unknown (but pretty) rune effect]]
+===Video===
+A video of Slow Time can be seen below, courtesy of [http://www.youtube.com/Diablo3Inc the DiabloInc You Tube channel].
+<youtube>dFpG7ApIWdE</youtube>
 ==Synergies==
-Slow Time benefits from the following [[Wizard passives]]:
+Slow Time benefits from the following [[Wizard passives]]: None added yet.
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 <blockquote>''One of the most useful skills in the Arena. Not just for the Wizard, but for the whole team. A Wizard who managed to cast one of these out in the center of the arena, where most of the early round action took place, gave her team a huge advantage. Enemy Barbs were nearly frozen in it, Mongrels were basically stuck there for the duration of the spell, and even other casters hated to be inconvenienced. It wasn’t as much on defense, since there weren’t many projectiles flying in the demo, but it was great to block movement.</blockquote>
-Skill tiers were removed for the [[July 2011 Press Event]], and Slow Time became a level 16 skill. When the skill system was once again overhauled for the [[Beta Patch 13]] in February 2012, Slow Time was classified as a Defensive skill (but stayed at level 16).
+===Beta===
+Skill tiers were removed shortly before the [[beta]] started in September 2011, and Slow Time became a level 16 skill. When the skill system was once again overhauled for the [[Beta Patch 13]] in February 2012, Slow Time was classified as a Defensive skill (but stayed at level 16).
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 * [http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7960229#post7960229 Zediono's translation of JudgeHype's pre-beta report] -- IncGamers 1st Aug 2011
 * [http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=8007624#post8007624 Silva's Wizard Runestone Effects] -- IncGamers 5th Sep 2011
-* [http://us.battle.net/d3/en/class/wizard/active/ Wizard Active Skills] -- Diablo III 12th Sep 2011
+* [http://us.battle.net/d3/en/class/wizard/active/ Wizard Active Skills] -- Blizzard's Official Diablo III Site

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