Polymorph

This spell defines one of the purposes of a mage in instances - crowd control.
When in an instance, facing multiple mobs, always try to sheep one. Tell your party which one you're going to polymorph, so they don't attack and break it - either use a /say macro, or, if you're leader, put a raid icon on the mob.

Be smart when using this spell:
a) Keep the regeneration in mind. Don't cast it on something which is about to die - it restores their hp and other stats very quickly, so this is just giving it a potion and making you and perhaps your party's life harder.
b) Don't cast on a mob which someone is attacking, unless it is vital for you to sheep it, in which case tell the person to stop slashing away first; otherwise, it's a waste of mana.
c) Don't run around AEing, or Blizzard, or any other AoE spell afterwards - this just breaks the sheep.
d) Don't sheep after a DoT has been put on the targetted mob, as the damage will break the effect.

Do this well, and your party will love you. You will also have one less beast/humanoid to kill when facing multiple ones!

Certain classes have PvP trinkets which can break Polymorph. Engineers can also create un-polymorph trinkets, and priests can dispel magic.

8 seconds pvp duration. What was it before?

The "at war" feature with factions and this spell can create an awesome absurdity. You can sheep a vendor, uncheck "at war"(because CCs no longer start combat) then buy from the vendor. Unlike freezing trap though the vendor no longer says it's clicked on lines, no sheeped orcs saying "Lok'tar".

It seems like Druids can no longer shift out of polymorph (or hex for that matter) if afflicted by it in caster form.

One of the major reasons I love druids. If in any form, you can't cast this. If the target is in druid form and you poly them, then can shapeshift.

Hex is on the same diminishing return as polymorph is.

The above post is out-of-date. As of Patch 2.2.0 the duration in pvp will be ten seconds. Each successive cast will have a shorter duration in PVP. (PVE polymorphs do not have a reduction in length) The reduction on repeated casts is 10s -> 5s -> 2.5s -> 0s

However, they will still be immune to Polymorph-type spells while shapeshifted. Just means Resto is a lot more vulnerable now.

This is my favorite polymorph macro, and I made it myself.

Left-click focuses on your target and casts polymorph (top rank you have).
Right-click polymorphs your focus.

#showtooltip
/focus [button:1]
/cast [button: 1]Polymorph
/cast [button: 2,target=focus]Polymorph

Previous maximum PvP CC duration was 10 seconds.

You can use this as much as you want in PvE, as it outlasts the 15 second rule.

List of polymorphs currently ingame (8th december 2008):

Polymorph: Pig
Polymorph: Sheep
Polymorph: Turtle
Polymorph: Serpent
Polymorph: Black Cat
Polymorph: Penguin

The only true polymorph icon.

And 12 seconds before that and same as pve before that.

Don't forget Tome of Polymorph: Rabbit from Noblegarden!

With the changes to spell costs in patch 3.0 (every spell costs percentage of base mana with lower ranks costing more), first rank of Polymorph is no longer useful for PvP, the last rank is cheaper.

Any idea of how much "will regenerate very quickly" is? i mean it is a % of the base HP, is it a multiplier of normal regen or a static value?

and 1 min back in vinilla

If a polymorphed target has a shiled, or something that absorbs damage, and i attack them but the spell is absorbed, the effect breaks? or only when it causes damage?

This spell is a very good one and with the add-on u can get from Curse-Gaming MCpoly 0.4, you make your hot key. While in a group, when a group member gets mind control you hit the hot key and that person gets polyed which has saved my group a few hundred times, it saves you from having to target the party member thats MCed. All you do is hit the hotkey :)

Flee is run away. I think you're looking for flea, the obnoxious, tiny bug.

I hope so Blizzard will add a glyph - Glyph of guinea-pig =)

Glyph of the flee. That'll put a stop to bads mousing over my sheeped mobs and breaking CC.

Only if no one had more aggro than you. Polymorph causes aggro, just like always, but it doesn't act as a taunt.

#showtooltip polymorph
/script SetRaidTarget("target",4);
/cast polymorph
/s [!]Casting_<Polymorph>_on_ "%t".
/p [!]Casting_<Polymorph>_on_ "%t".
/r [!]Casting_<Polymorph>_on_ "%t".

Puts a raid target icon on the target and alerts any allies to it. Consider adding other commands to attract attention ie./use druid and priest statue set. Transferable with other utility spells and abilities like slow fall or jeeves.

If you want to use random macro now in draenor for multiple polymorph form you need to type this default one as /cast polymorph(sheep)

In the new patch, Polymorph will only last for 12 seconds max in BGs, along with all other forms of Crowd Control.

The main reason while Blizz nerfed it is because many mages in AB, for example, sheeped a defender and just capture a point. Then the mage either ran away, waited for backup or just killed the defender. However, why is sap still at 30 seconds? Swed, remember to use your PvP trinket if sheeped :P This little thing will help you many times, bringing you between the line of life and death.

I'll have to get that mod for when I run Zg and fight Hakkar. Does it still work after the this newest patch?

Baa!

Mages aren't going to have a monopoly on the "transforming CC" after WotLK.
Shamans are getting a "Hex" that works just like Polymorph: It turns a Beast or Humanoid into a random critter. It doesn't work on critters like Polymorph does, though (doesn't make any sense, a critter won't attack you anyway...)

Haha... The old times where everybody was clicking... :D I wan't it back, PvP used to be so easy! :D

So when you sheep a mob, why can you aggro it when you get close? I would think they would be incapacitated.

I personally think that this is one of the best things blizzard could have done... no more going into a BG and having a mage sheep you then just sit back and keep sheeping you until back up comes or the mage is fully rested up and can take you down ... 30sec sheeps were just far to much for BG's.

Thank you Blizzard,
Swed

sept is was star in vinilla

Dispersed [spell=92711] priests can get polymorphed, spellstollen [spell=30449] and kicked bad afterwards. Important, the [spell=92711] ability won't work while sheepped.

Has anyone else noticed that in MoP, the polymorphed target will agro you after the effect ends, even though you didn't have agro on it

normally you get dismounted but when i went to the ghostlands a lvl 17 mage dueled me and spammed polymorph on me and i didnt dismount =P

im gonna submit a pic

at lvl 60 u get polymorph pig ( piggy piggy piggy!) and polymorph turtle. it transforms 2 wat ever it says ( player-pig for pig 1 and player-turtle for the other). it does wander around more :-/ or :( cuz then it gets more health. like the first guy said dont use it when the mob is just about 2 die then its just a waste of mana!

Woot! Go mages!

this spell turns ur targe into a sheep.