Guild Wars 2

I’m playing an Elementalist using a Staff, and most often when I get downed, I’m attuned to Fire. When I try to rally using the #4 downed skill (Bandage) it seems that as soon as I’m up again, I get an “automatic” #4 Staff skill, which is Burning Retreat, when attuned to Fire. This throws me back some distance, and if I’m on a ledge, off I go, and I’m down again. I’m guessing this is because there are still a few #4 key (or mouse) presses in the buffer at the time the rally is successful, and they bleed over into weapon skills. I’ve gotten the same behavior with both key presses and mouse clicks on downed skill #4.

Apart from changing the key bindings, or pressing the #4 downed skill more slowly, is there any way to prevent this? I would say from a dev/implementation perspective that it would be nice after rallying that the input buffer is flushed of any remaining #4 keys before accepting other skill button/mouse presses (which would also make it a lag-independent solution), but that might need to be optional so it doesn’t interfere with somebody who actually does want to go immediately to weapon skill #4 after rallying.

Any ideas?

It’s a channeled skill. Stop mashing the button.

Quarktastic.1027:

It’s a channeled skill. Stop mashing the button.

Pretty much this.

If you spam a key more time then it needs to register, the game sometimes queues up the button you press again, leading (if skill is not on cooldown) another cast of the button related skill. Probably what happened here. Only spam skill once (maybe twice, but not more).