That is some serious BS

[Rallick]

Here is a simple solution when you sheep another player they dont' gain the massive HP regen. I doubt that would be hard to code into the spell.

They put that in because Mages were abusing another aspect of it. Fight, Fight Fight etc...on no...I can't win atm. SHEEP! Wait the 10 seconds to be considered out of combat and then eat/drink. Then back up and fight the mob again.

They also put it this way so that sheep was used on mobs that are not in combat per say yet. Also removes it from being used as an Interupt on caster type mobs (people were killing Dragons by chain sheeping).

They need another fix then that one unfortunately.