Guild Wars 2

All to often, especially when heading to vistas, some odd creature will get you into combat mode, and unless you stop to kill it, you will enter combat mode, and be stuck there, with no auto heal, unable to view the vista, unable to transport to a waypoint, or to do almost anything else. And if it took you a long time to get to the vista, or if it’s one of those jumping puzzle vistas, you have to wait, sometimes until you reboot the game.

The Thief’s many stealth skills can also trigger this phenomenon. Whereby you get hit, enter stealth to remove aggro, and you’ll be stuck in combat mode, complete with reduced health, until you reboot.

You can heal yourself to 100% health, sheath your weapons, but you’re still stuck in combat mode.

I have noticed that when one kills a target it takes a few seconds to exit combat mode, which makes me believe that there is a timer involved. The fact that getting hit causes entrance into combat, including hits taken from falls, which also seem to have a timer to exit it, perhaps removing the requirement to kill whatever hit you could be removed entirely.

Since the ground is already “dead,” and killing a target also results in a dead target, it seems clear that that is the cause of being unable to exit combat mode.

If the requirement to actually kill something is removed, and perhaps the timer increased by a second or two, if you are still getting hit, or you are still hitting, combat mode would continue, but would be more easily removed if you were simply running through an area when you got hit.

If you enter combat mode it is possible to exit without killing a creature it just takes a while.

If you want it to end faster then yes, go kill something.

i have never heard of such a problem just kill a blasted creature even a critter will do my god is it that hard.

Already, You have to lose the leash from the enemy and wait a while before you can lose combat mode.

You don’t need to kill the creature. I don’t see how the solution adds anything useful.

Obviously, none of you has encountered the problem, or, you simply kill everything as you go along.
There are times, especially during jumping puzzle vistas, whereby you reach a point, where there’s nothing to kill nearby, and oft times, you were hit by something that could easily hit you with a ranged or AoE attack, but that you can’t easily attack from where you are, without starting all over.
As to waiting, I have had times where I waited over half an hour, and never left combat mode until I rebooted the game.
Currently, all of my characters experience this problem at least once a day, some of my thieves encounter it three or more times a day.
During the beta weekends, and during the first few weeks after release, it was a much bigger problem, but since then, they removed a good majority of the bad guys that used to surround most vistas. That helped alot, but the problem remains for those of us who don’t kill everything on the planet.

I know the issue you are talking about

You mention that it comes from going for vistas, that is because most vistas are high in the game. What is happening is that in order to break combat you have to be a certain distance from the enemy that engaged you into combat. The problem is that vertical distance does not count.

When I see that I am at a vista or other point and this is the problem I log to character screen and log back in. It puts you out of combat. While this does not fix the problem it does get around it.

F12 → Character Select – > Re-enter → View Vista

I usually just log out to char select screen and quickly log back in, takes only a couple of seconds and fixes the bug.

Tarkenius.7145:

I know the issue you are talking about

You mention that it comes from going for vistas, that is because most vistas are high in the game. What is happening is that in order to break combat you have to be a certain distance from the enemy that engaged you into combat. The problem is that vertical distance does not count.

When I see that I am at a vista or other point and this is the problem I log to character screen and log back in. It puts you out of combat. While this does not fix the problem it does get around it.

I hadn’t considered distance as part of the equation. Thanks for the insight.

Auesis.7301:

F12 -> Character Select – > Re-enter -> View Vista

Yeah, we discovered that back during the beta weekends.

Doomguard.5094:

I usually just log out to char select screen and quickly log back in, takes only a couple of seconds and fixes the bug.

It doesn’t fix the bug, it’s a workaround. I was hoping that we can get the bug permanently fixed so we don’t need the workaround.

Besides, there are times, when there may still be an enemy who has a ranged attack, but you only have melee, or otherwise can’t attack back due to terrain. We need a permanent fix to the problem. Not a workaround.

I know in WvW if you log out while in combat you die.. and of course get kicked out of WvW.