Guild Wars 2

This game depserately needs a drop combat button.

Last night in WvW I attacked someone as they were running in their keep with S/D as that’s my playstyle of choice. But once we killed everyone in the front of the wall we had to start attacking the keep. However, I was stuck in combat for 7 mintues when I just sat in the back of the zerg away from everyone while I watched a reinforced gate go from full to 0. I took no damage, no one came near me. I just sat there twiddling my thumbs.

We really need a button that we can channel to force us out of combat. Say a 10 second channel where if I can use it the full 10 seconds without attacking someone, I’m forced from combat and can go back to regening health and can swap weapons and skills.

You could just run further away from the action. If you didn’t drop combat and were all alone in the middle of nowhere then maybe I would say there was a problem.

If we had a drop combat button that would be heavily abused for WP ressing and simply escaping from combat when you are low, denying everyone a kill.

You mean a button that people could easily abuse by pressing then porting out of dangerous situations? This would cause WAY more problems than it would solve….I mean what game has a drop combat button?

Tell me again about how you stayed in combat while you were standing in a zerg that was in combat…. Just run away till you’re not in combat any more, that’s what everyone does.

If you had the time to channel a 10 second spell that would cancel the moment you took any damage then it wasn’t that dangerous was it?

I was not in a party.
The zerg was by the fort. I was on the middle of the bridge away from everything.
Never left combat probably because the guy I attacked when he was running into the building never died.

I fail to see how this could be abused except in PvE where you could conceivably run far enough from a boss where it couldn’t reach you in 10 seconds. I’ve yet to see where this could legitimately be abused, but I’ve only done fractals for the most part.

I disagree. We do need the game to accurately define the combat state and move the status indicator, which in my experience it does a good job of. We don’t need a button to put us out of combat at our whim and for our convenience.

This would just be too easy with some of the classes. I mean, it’s easy enough as it already is to break combat, let alone give a free “evade for 10s” waypoint option.

You could have just run a little further away… maybe 5 seconds away and back