Relic of the Necromancer duration

[DaVid Darksoul.4985]

Can anyone tell me how long the effect of 50% decrease in movement speed lasts? I am thinking it would be the same as the Fear duration, but seems that would make it a laughable relic. How is it useful that for 1-2 seconds you Fear your opponent and they run away at half speed?

[Remus Darkblight.1673]

I believe it is a modifier applied to the fear itself, so it works exactly like that. So yes, it's pretty useless compared to other options.

[Zebulous.2934]

19 hours ago, DaVid Darksoul.4985 said:

Can anyone tell me how long the effect of 50% decrease in movement speed lasts? I am thinking it would be the same as the Fear duration, but seems that would make it a laughable relic. How is it useful that for 1-2 seconds you Fear your opponent and they run away at half speed?

I am told that the goal is to keep the opponent helpless and within range of a shroud for as long as possible. One flavor of necromancer can't cause chill so this effect was supposed to substitute for that.  That's the rumor anyway.

If the rune had been made for non necromancers it probably would have caused daze instead.  Necromancers have that whole fear thing though, so we get this oddity.