Guild Wars 2

Hello.
Twice in the past two days, my wife’s character has suddenly died. We were in combat and I revived her during “last stand”. She got back up and we continued for another minute or so, and then she instantly died. There were no mobs around that we could determine and were walking on a mostly featureless flat area.
When this happens, she doesn’t go back into "last stand’. She is instantly dead with no explanation from almost full health.
Is there a way to determine what happened in these cases? Is there a way to see (a log, for example) what has killed you?
This is very frustrating because we aren’t able to figure out why this is happening.
I searched the forums but couldn’t find any similar topic, so I apologize if this has been addressed elsewhere. We’d be grateful for any suggestions or advice. Thank you very much!

Is she a warrior? I suspect she is using skill 3 on the downed skills bar – vengeance. This allows you to temporarily rally but you will die after 15 seconds. There is a chance that if you kill something whilst in rally it will remove the vengeance and you won’t die at the end of the time. You can also trait so that a kill whilst in vengeance has a 100% chance to clear the condition.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vengence

there is a combat log that should show any damage taken.

Is she using anything like vengeance?

Thanks for the information. I am unable to find the log that you speak of. Can you be more specific about its location? A search of the Internet and wiki refer to the log, but I haven’t found a way to view / access it.

The character that has been instantly dying is a level 24 warrior. I do not believe she is using vengeance. How would we be able to tell? (If you haven’t noticed, we’re noobs).

Haha – okay. I just reviewed with my wife. She said “I don’t know what those numbers do. When I’m dead I’m pressing everything frantically.” So it sounds like Vengeance is the problem. I’m resolving it by prying the “3” key off her keyboard.

Thank you everyone for your help – all the replies were spot on, so I’m not sure how to award you credit, but thank you all the same.

Heh. I resolved the issue by choosing the trait that gives you 100% chance to stay alive after using vengeance.

You can access the combat log as a chat page. If you look along the top of the chat box you’ll see tabs – I think there’s one already preset for combat, if you click the tab it will show you damage done and damage taken, etc. If it isn’t preset you can change the sort of information you see in the chat window by selecting from the different options that drop down from the arrow at the side of the tabs.