Sap usually only lasts anywhere from 6-12 seconds in PvP. I remember this lasting around 20-30 seconds in vanilla. Something is not right. Another victim of the atrocious port over from legion?
If it is working as intended, I also want to state for the record how it is messed up mages get an in-combat, ranged, point and click CC ability that lasts 3x as long as rogues and can be used repeatedly in combat and doesn’t require any sort of mechanic like stealth to use.
Sheep can be dispelled.
You might be remembering an earlier patch or just not remembering correctly at all. Pretty much all CC in vanilla says it lasts longer in the tooltip but then breaks early. I believe there’s a chance of CC breaking every second or so.
And there’s also diminishing returns, but again the tooltips don’t indicate this. With each consecutive CC the chances of CCs breaking early increases. So mages can’t just sheep you all day.
At least I think that’s how it’s supposed to work. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
My understanding is that player v player spells should cap out at 10-12 seconds of CC. Fears seem to go on for like 15 seconds which seems wrong to me.
I’ll admit I don’t think I’ve ever been sapped so I can’t say but many rogues say it lasts far shorter than it should