Silly mage, polymorphing is for... idiotsFollow

My druid has been 70 for quite some time now, thus, I have taken part in many BGs (as have most 70s I'm sure). But in this, I have stumbled across the mystery of mages polymorphing me. And I have come to a few conclusions. That mages are unaware that its pointless because they don't know druids can just shapeshift out. Or that they want to burn the druid's mana. The 2nd one would seem like the more likely option, but mages don't continue to sheep me over and over.. they do it once and I see their pyroblast or fireball charging. Not to mention my mana isn't gonna run out on shifting and it only takes one Feral Charge in bear from to get to em. Maybe I should be posting this on the mage forums, who knows, just needed to rant about it because it keeps happening and the stupidity is begining to annoy me.

Edited, Dec 4th 2007 10:06am by aceXcanes

When I play on my mage I often polymorph druids when they are trying to cast HT if my CS is on CD. Might be one of the reasons and the other being, as mentioned above, habit.

Others gave good reasons why they might be doing it on purpose, but I don't think it's stupid to do it by mistake either. I feel like I'm seeing more and more druids out and about, but it's still a pretty rarely played class percentage-wise. Even at 70 I imagine there are people who haven't encountered/played with very many and don't know every little detail about the class, which doesn't make them stupid (as you note, it's not like they keep trying after they see it's not working).

I don't do BG's but I'm on a relatively low population/new server (think it's just hitting its 1 year anniversary) and I encounter players just out in the world who stop for a second to watch me fight and/or say they didn't know druids could do x or y. We're exotic. Don't get annoyed, use it. :)

Except that CS is on a... 24-second cooldown I think? Polymorph in one GCD and that's it. CS would be much better spent on, for example, a shadow priest, forcing him to either stand their or shift out and heal since it locks out every single damage spell.
Unless, of course, the druid is actually healing rather than feral, or is the only caster. In which case Poly is kinda stupid. Force of habit from mages who don't PvP incredibly often, I'd guess.

Edited, Dec 4th 2007 11:45am by lsfreak

One second in pvp is a huge amount of time. So, if the mage tryes to Pollymorph you while you are about to heal the warrior of your team, maybe you are screwed, because you just wasted 2(or less) seconds of cast.
I would say it can be tactical, but then again, it can just be stupidity. It all depends on the case.

like KT said, polying a druid to halt a heal isnt a bad idea. if the mage is keeping a close eye on the druid, he can keep anything except lifebloom and rejuv from being used (and those he can spell steal if he needs too). in arena combat thats one of the only ways for a mage to shut a druid down, however temporarily.

Just a little note: im a feral druid, and my healers LOVE me for my innervate, so your feral druid guildie was apparently only doing dmg, not supporting and other cool stuff we can do ;)

M8, if I were you, I wouldnt have written that :P
heh, it happens to even the best, so ;)

I had one Experience with a stupid mage...well 2 really but with the same one.
I was in the 30-39 wsg and I was running the flag in travel form when I got to the ramp there was a mage waiting there and he tried to polymorph me when it didn't work he blinked towards me and tried it again. The funny thing is the next time i was running the flag the same mage did the same thing.