My gut reaction is that it's not enough of a nerf. I haven't played against it enough to have a formal opinion. I asked a question because I honestly don't know.

It's a cap. I'm not completely sure but I believe it caps at 33%.

I think it's enough. Reg's shrapnel mines already slow by 30%. If the cap was any lower then the mine's slow would be nerfed.

But mark slows for 50% or more.  Is it just flat out nerfed now?

Or is the cap "33% of max movespeed" as in it caps at 66% slow?

Good point.  Note to self:  High ranks of mark just became the new foul grasp.

Unless it's ignoring movespeed boosts.

As in it's 66% of your original base.

Original base = 5.0

5.0 + 0.5 (boots of speed) + 0.75 (anklet) = 6.25

It would still cap at 3.333?

Or did they just nerf several moves significantly with this?

Yeah, if I'm reading this right the cap would still be 3.3 since it's 0.66 * base speed.

You're right, the patch helped the rook out but it has also nerfed a couple of moves if the DG don't bother increasing their speed for whatever reason.

Again, not a dev, but since the devs don't seem to want to clarify this and since this fix was based off of mine, here it goes.

The slow multiplier cap is 66% of the Demigods base speed. So a Demigod with a base move speed of 6 would have a slow cap of 3.96.

If that Demigod were to buy the boots of speed (10% speed increase) they would have a move rate of 6.6, but would still have a slow cap of 3.96.

Hope this helps.

Move speed does counter slows. If you have a base speed of 6 and get a 10% move speed increase and a DG hits you with a 33% slow you would now have a movement speed of 4.62. If you did not have that 10% boost you would be reduced to 4.02.

The only time there would be no difference is if you had so many slows stacked on you that you would be brought down to the slow cap with or without the movement buffs.

nevermind.

Well, it's a lot better than before, where Oak + Regulus = frozen in place. And since practically everybody has some kind of boost to base speed, mark is still probably useful to increase.

Example Base speed = 10.0

Cap = 6.6

Max Movespeed that with a 50% mark would be reduced to the cap = 13.2

They'd need more than a 32% movespeed boost  (assuming movespeed still stacks additively) to have a 50% mark not cap the slow.  Assuming you have one level of maim (you always have at least one level, right?) they'd need more than 39% increase.

Even with boots and anklet that's only 25%, and few heroes can self boost by 15% more (Sedna being the only one I think, perhaps Oak temporarily?).

So a 50% slow mark is basically all you ever need to get anyone to the cap.