Poll: Should we add Nets that work on Dead Beasts?

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BorgsFury wrote:

You should not even be asking the playerbase. Half the people voting aren't even playing a summoner or a build that would be most affected by this. They are just voting no out of ignorance of other players experiences. You should have been able to test all these experiences yourself before it ever went live and decided that the experience was simply not great for enough builds that you'd change it.

As a summoner you have little to no control over when your minions attack a target you want to capture and the damage output isn't always the same (it depends on how many of your minions decide to hit that target). This makes it very hard to gauge when to throw the net. It creates many frustrating scenarios where you miss the capture.

Sometimes (very often) it dies before the immunity proc even goes off, even if you attempt to throw a net. If you're trying to capture a new species this is especially annoying as it starts a chain of failures. You miss the first one, even if you attempted to throw. Now there's a short cooldown where you can't throw at all. That period involves you watching your minions masacre most or all of the rest of the mobs you wanted to capture, possibly followed by some more attempts to throw and fail as they die before the net immunity goes off.

Against Legendaries, the three second window is hard to gauge as your damage is inconsistent and you have no way to burst them down after you throw the net to counter any regen that occurs. This means you have to state at their hp and throw the net when they are very close to death. Even when they are very close to death this can lead to random failure because all the sudden the inconsistent damage output ramps up as a minion uses a cooldown or more start hitting the target. Or there's sudden health regen or perhaps lower damage output and its health starts going up instead of down just as you threw the net and you miss the tiny window. You also have a pointless 5 second or so hidden cd where you can not re-net a target, which does nothing but screw over builds that can't control their damage output as they can not stop DPS immediately to wait to try to net again.

Even if you choose not to add nets that capture dead targets you should:

1) Decrease the time it takes for the net immunity to apply from whatever it is to instantly when you hit the button. Make this more responsive and you solve a lot of issues summoners run into on regular mob and rare mob captures.

2) remove the obnoxious hidden cd where you can't re-net a target you just net. This will make capturing legendaries a lot less annoying when you don't control your targets or damage as well.

3) realize how stupid vorici missions have been all this time for similar reasons and do something about that too

edit: I also support the idea suggested by many that instead of a 3 second period, nets mark a target and always capture at the end. That would also solve the issues summoners lack of control causes for legendary captures.