Useful Nets

Every now and again I come across something that make me think “Doh!  Why didn’t I think of that!”  Both my mage and my priest are tailors and both have been able to make Netherweave Nets for some time but I have never made a single one.   The mage was levelled as deep frost and the priest as shadow, I never thought I needed a net.  Why?  Well, by the time Wini had finished casting all her frosty goodness that even if a mob does run it’s going so slowly it’s an easy job to finish it off before it gets far; if she needs to escape then nova, blink and leg it (that sounds like a firm of solicitors!).  As for Hulan, her victims were dotted and being flayed alive, again something that slows them considerably and for escapes it was usually something along the lines of bubble, fear and run like hell.

Tonight I found a new blog (A Dwarf Priest) and right there at the top is a post about Netherweave Nets.  It contained this gem “If you are having to CC a mob with Shackle Undead and are worried about it breaking early, you can make an emergency macro to net the mob in place and reshackle if it does.”  Why didn’t I ever think to use them for that?!  The beauty of the macro posted is that your cc’d mob needs to be set as your focus…this is something I already do.  Both Wini and Hulan have macros that set the target to be the focus on casting the appropriate cc (pig or shackle), then to re-pig/shackle, all I do is press the button with my right mouse button.  By the time I’m re-applying cc I usually have a different target and this means that I don’t have to change targets all the time.  DP’s Net macro will be very handy for dealing with those mobs that have the temerity to break cc early.

The macro, so I don’t lose it, is :

#showtooltip Netherweave Net
/stopcasting
/target focus
/use Netherweave Net
/cast Shackle Undead
/targetlasttarget