Low Speed Builds viable?

[Azrael]

So, I've clawed my way up to cycle 20 with an electricity build zipping across the map with 1000+ speed and am now hitting a wall due to the 10% perma-fail chance on dodge and am looking for a new build.

I'm curious about the other end of the spectrum: There are a few items / skills that limit speed to a ridiculous 10 or 15 as far as I can recall. Has anyone found a viable build using that? I can not imagine how that speed limit can possibly work with anything...

[JackThejil]

Sure? I haven't quite dug my way into the 30s, but 24th cycle tree builds (i.e. speed 1) are definitely viable. Various retaliation/tank builds can manage fairly high cycle with low speed, so on and so forth. Speed 10 or 15 is actually what I'd consider the low end of reasonable just in general on 24th cycle, though I'm less sure higher.

If you're really careful about how you move, either extremely tanky or extremely aggro, that's about the point you can comfortably win fairly consistently even without careful building, heh. It's when you get under speed 10 that things start getting really rough.

There's examples over in the YAVT thread; folks have posted a good handful, myself included.

[Draken]

You can make low speed builds work on higher cycles, yes.

But I am pretty sure you need to have a very good build and know what you are doing.
Higher speed builds are going to be a lot easier in general, though they will also need a good defensive strategy.