Sheeping priests

Almost anyone reading this probably knows of the ability for priests to use the kickback damage from shadow word: death to break polymorphs - it seems fairly common knowledge these days even in the lower brackets. Here are a few tips and tricks I've picked up playing against priests.

1. Catch him in global cooldown. This is alot easier if you use 4pce pvp (which tbh, you should be right now). With 4pce bonus and a bit of haste, you should be looking at 1.15 or so polymorphs without icy veins. With IV, PI, berserking or hyperspeed accelerators, you should be pushing 0.8 sheeps pretty easily, so it becomes a simple matter to wait for the priest to cast an instant (pw:s, dispel, prayer of mending, whatever) then fire off a rapid sheep before he can shadow word: death it.


2. Sheep someone else. When it seems ridiculously obvious that you're going to sheep the priest, just sheep someone else instead to make him waste his sw:d cooldown. A great example: You're running rmp in a mirror, and you catch the rogue in a kidney with his trinket down, you have full sheep dr on the priest and he has no trinket. Sheep the mage instead, probably interrupting an incoming sheep or frostbolt in the process, and sheep the priest immediately afterwards when he's blown his sw:d.


3. FoF Deep freeze -> sheep. This one is pretty obvious, but I figure I'd throw it out there. Obviously you can do it with regular novas etc as well, but usually you'll find priests are pretty quick about getting nova off themselves to avoid that.


4. Juke it. This I feel is the worst option as it results in the most wasted time and is the riskiest (ie with priests not blowing sw:d on your juke giving you absolutely no results), however you should still go for it if for whatever reason, the other options can't be used. I understand that in the bursty environment of wotlk, it can sometimes feel like it's not worth "wasting time" doing stuff like fakecasting sheeps and putting up anti-dispel debuffs. But at the end of the day, having a 10 second sheep stuck to them is always going to be worth it.