Guild Wars 2

Confused about rally and defeat. Was just downed, then managed to rally and fight on for a few seconds until I suddenly dropped dead and got the defeated message, despite having health left. Is this bugged or just working in a rather weird way?

Basically if you’re downed several times in a short period you stack a penelty that makes you less and less survivable in the down state. On the fifth time you don’t even go into the downed state and are flat out defeated.

There are a few other things that could have happened here:
You are an elementalist and used mist form to escape- This is currently bugged as becoming mist removes you from the downed state and returns you to it after the duration. Unfortunately it current counts as an additional down and stacks the penelty again afterward. Basically if you used mist form in the down state then managed to rally if you go down again you’ve stacked it 3 times. One downed as an elementalist rapidly turns into 2-3 penelty stacks.

You are a warrior and pressed vengence- If this is the case don’t feel bad about it. Plenty of warriors have done it. In the down state warriors can press a button to return them to life for 15 seconds and fight, however after that time is up you are completely defeated without question. A trait can let you survive this if you kill something during vengence.

A mesmer cast Illusion of Life on you- Basically this gives you the same buff as the warrior’s vengence downed ability, however if you kill something in 15 seconds you won’t go down again. However I’m not 100% on if it fully defeats you if you fail to do so.

Thanks for the reply. I was a warrior when this happened so I guess it must have been vengeance. Do you happen to know what key activates vengeance? I certainly didn’t press anything on purpose and would rather avoid doing it again.

Your 3rd ability should be Vengeance.