[Mage] Polymorph Duration

[Khandz]

Hello,

Seems Polymorph gets buggy at times, sometimes you get into a 40/20 seconds Polymorph (PvP-target).
Definately not working as intended.

Sincerely,

[schaka]

It breaks after 15 seconds at most. The duration was never lowered (as in, the visual). Read up on how PvP heartbeat resist worked in Vanilla.

[Khandz]

It breaks after 15 seconds at most. The duration was never lowered (as in, the visual). Read up on how PvP heartbeat resist worked in Vanilla.

Yeah well, did play Druid in Classic so never really had the problem to sit in Sheeps, but to awnser your question I sat in a full 20 seconds duration sheep. For the 40 second one I won't know as the player broke it quite early. Quite sure they fixed it in a patch during classic wow so CC's would be max 9 (10) second duration on Player-targets.

[Banezilla]

Cc duration was reduced to 9 seconds in retail right? There also should be diminishing returns.

[Youfie]

It wasn't reduced so that's it's impossible for cc to last longer.

The heartbeat formula was tweaked by Blizzard so that it would almost never last longer than 10-15s in PvP. However, a longer duration is possible, just as it was on retail. A 40s duration just means the Mage got extremely lucky.

Unless this happens repeatedly, this isn't a bug. It should be extremely rare.

[Banezilla]

http://wow.gamepedia.com/Diminishing_returns

"Note that when used against another player, effects will only last for their PvP duration, often far shorter than the duration stated in the ability's tooltip. The maximum PvP duration is 8 seconds."

I wasn't able to find information on what patch the 8 second rule was implemented, does anyone know?

[Guirssane]

certainly when bc came out, or a bit after idk

[Catisious]

In vanilla im pretty sure there were no diminishing returns and all cc lasted, for the most part, as long as it says it will.

If you pvp just make sure you bring a mage for sheep and a priest for dispell

or 2 priests, so the one priest can dispell the other priest...who will get sheeped

[Stone]

TBC introduced CC time limit on players.

[Banezilla]

Diminishing returns was implemented in 1.4.