As a Galka Drk, I prefer to macro them in and out with my Crimson Greeves. Those are like Leaping Boots on crack. Good for my lack of MP and also the + elemental effects kick but too. Thick gear is a thing of the past for me.
I dont understand why people freak out about the slow. If you know how to play correctly your gonna macro in for WS then macro back to Acc equips anyways.
Should I take the obvious quip and say that this apparently isn't English class either? Then somebody else can reply to whine about my post, and so on, wasting everyone's time. Nobody is waiting for pointless flames, so chill.
And either way, the bloke is right. Increasing a value will decrease the sum if it is substracted. Math 101.
They could've used Haste-4% instead of Slow+4%, but then you would have to ignore all the Slowing entries when you pull up the list of Hasting gear : I personally prefer it like this.