Sheep makes me to go into combat when near it

Hi guys,

A couple days ago, before today's patch, I was sheeping mobs so I could pick herbs. I noticed that often (but not always) I would agro the sheep when I approached the herb, and I would 'go into combat' (ie the sword icon is displayed on my toon's portrait frame).

I am sheeping from a distance, so I am not in combat when I cast. During the whole time I am herbing, I obviously don't break my own sheep.

With all the game mechanics changes of late (I haven't played this mage much for a over a year) I don't think what's happening is right. It's a big pain for me when I have to go invisible to dump agro so I can mount up.

Is this a bug? Was it fixed in today's patch?

Cheers,
Nap

The patch notes say that if you get too close to a cc'd mob it will aggro. Might be a little ambiguous but that's what I got out of it.

# Crowd Control

* Many crowd control abilities no longer cause creatures to attack players when they are cast. The creature will not attack the player when the crowd control wears off, and nearby creatures will not become hostile to the player either. However, if a visible player gets too close to the target creature, the creature will remember and attack the player when the crowd control effect wears off. The intent is to make it easier for dungeon groups to manage crowd control assignments and pulling packs of hostile NPCs. The abilities affected by this change are: Hibernate, Entangling Roots, Wyvern Sting (will still cause hostility when it begins to deal damage), Freezing Trap, Polymorph, Repentance, Shackle Undead, Blind, Hex, Bind Elemental, Banish, Seduction.

>> Erythos, thanks for the heads up.


I guess that in dungeons it means more mobs to fight and more exp, but in the PvE world, I only see this change as a time waster for mage gatherers as the cooldown on invisibility is 3 minutes.

Why is SAP omitted from the list?



Edit: checked cooldown and it's 3 not 10 min.
i don't understand the issue... pre-4.2, sheep would put u in combat... in 4.2, they made it so sheep didn't put u in combat... assuming ur not standing near the sheep, are you still having to invis out?

also, sap doesn't put u in combat to begin with b/c you're in stealth... so it wasn't applicable to the change..
Maybe it's been too long since I played this toon. I just don't seem to remember having to fight many mobs while I was herbing in Northrend while I was levelling to 80.

When travelling out in the world (ie not instances) perhaps polymorph (and the others) could not put you into combat if you're not already in combat. Anyway, my thoughts.