Guild Wars 2

Hello,
I searched for the forum but found nothing similar but I hope I didn’t posted something already wrote. Also I found no answer in the wiki.

Anyway I have question about rally.
In one of my sPvP match I was fighting enemy #1, I deal enough damage to beat him down (down but not completely killed), then enemy #2 join the fight. This enemy deal me enough damage to beat me down: enemy #1 get rally.
While I was spamming downed skill #1 (by the way: I’m a necromancer) to enemy #1 an ally join the fight and deal enough damage to beat down again enemy #1.
I don’t get rally.
Why? What I did misunderstand about rally?

Do you get rally with just beat down an enemy or when you completely kill him? (so, in the previous case I suspect the enemy #2 used some skill to ress him but I seen no animation, can’t be sure though).

Thank you for your answer.

The enemy you downed was probably a warrior, they have a downed skill that lets them temporarily rally. A rally happens normally when the enemy is killed, not downed.

He was a thief. The resser was a warrior.
I’m necro and the ally was a ranger.

Warrior has an elite skill, “Battle Standard” that revive fallen allies .

If it was not this, maybe the Thief had time to heal while you were downed.

Edit: So it was a thief and not a warrior heh. thief probably just fixed himself up as your second fight went on.

There are flukes that occur. Namely killing player pets or somebody you tagged 30 seconds ago just died across the other side of the map and it rallies you.

Rallying from anything other than by yourself from healing, or from another player healing you doesn’t fit in PvP and is too random. Rallying because you tagged some random other downed player in a scrum, and they die, is silly.

Ok, then another question: if I get beat down, then, while down, I spam skill #1 and I kill someone should I get rally or not?
Because I was defeated in a match, a second after I’ve got beaten down I killed an enemy (beat him down, not completely killed) but I did not get rally. Is this normal behaviour of rally?
Another example: I spammed condition on an enemy (n.1), I get beat by another enemy (n.2), the #1 is outside the range of my down skill n.1 but he die due to condition damage. Do I get rally this way? (It’s pretty much the same case but in the previous I beat him down with downed skill, in the second with DoT before I get beaten).
In both cases I did not get rally, I also take screenshots in these cases but those say not much about these situations.

Arcades Saboth.5139:

Ok, then another question: if I get beat down, then, while down, I spam skill #1 and I kill someone should I get rally or not?
Because I was defeated in a match, a second after I’ve got beaten down I killed an enemy (beat him down, not completely killed) but I did not get rally. Is this normal behaviour of rally?
Another example: I spammed condition on an enemy (n.1), I get beat by another enemy (n.2), the #1 is outside the range of my down skill n.1 but he die due to condition damage. Do I get rally this way? (It’s pretty much the same case but in the previous I beat him down with downed skill, in the second with DoT before I get beaten).
In both cases I did not get rally, I also take screenshots in these cases but those say not much about these situations.

You only get rallied when someone is completely killed, not by simply being brought into the downstate.