Guild Wars 2

Please do something about in combat state. Lets say I just killed something but I have still a condition on me. That keeps me in combat unless I use a skill to remove it. If my skills are on cd im stuck in combat mode even though I’m not fighting anything. Can you make it that the in combat mode is activated and maintained as long as an enemy is alive and engaging you? It seems that now it depends if you are loosing hp which is a way to simple solution for the type of combat that the game has. This affects pvp as well I think. When I did some sPVP a thief would damage me, apply bleeds and then go to stealth mode. While in stealth he would go out of combat and I would still be stuck in combat. He would come back in full and i would still be in combat mode. Making a build to counter a game mechanic that shouldnt work like that is not a solution. Maybe make it so as soon as the source of damage disengages or dies you would wait 2-3 secs and go out of combat as well. Have a pairing type of incombat mode. Where both have to be engaging in combat for the mode to be active. Do not count remaining conditions and condition damage as a reason to stay in combat.

This is working as intended. A viable strategy is to wear down your enemy while being able to drop combat yourself. This is by design.
If you create a build that has no way to remove conditions you are forcing this weakness upon yourself. If you fail to add defenses to your build, you only have yourself to blame for losing to this valid and viable strategy.

BTW, I play a warrior, the class specifically designed to have conditions as our major weakness, this is why any and every serious warrior keeps “shake it off” on our bars.

Pretty sure that stealthing does not break aggro. At least it doesn’t for my Thief. However, it is possible for Thieves to get a ton of HP back via stuff like Hide in Shadows, Shadow’s Rejuvenation and Shadow Protector

The thing is, going out of combat any sooner would bring some serious issues. PvP would basically be reduced into kiting so that you go out of combat for full health and spiking your opponent to death.

Personally, the only time I’ve ran into issues with conditions has been Risen Hylek with their lengthy Poison and Risen Gorillas with their lengthy Cripple. I mean, those mobs die in less than 10 seconds and yet they can leave you with like a minute of a condition.

i hate that when i killed all of the enemy’s but your still in combat for a like a couple of minutes after and there nothing around that will attack you the best way i find to cancel the combat is to log off to the character choose screen then log back on

Amaterasu.8639:

i hate that when i killed all of the enemy’s but your still in combat for a like a couple of minutes after and there nothing around that will attack you the best way i find to cancel the combat is to log off to the character choose screen then log back on

This is the REAL problem with “in-combat/out-combat.” For some reason the game will still think you are in combat even after all conditions are removed and you’ve healed yourself to full. It keeps us from using way points and going to PvP and WvWvW.

It is just as bad as the LOS problem.

Your suggestion would be very flawed. Let’s say you’re fighting a champion along side a large group of players. The champion gives you a poison condition, then proceed to target another player. This would actually mean breaking combat, removing conditions, and healing back to full hp simply because the mob is not “engaging” you anymore. That would be illogical.