Guild Wars 2

The past week or so, I’ve been having a problem crop up in large fights. I never noticed it before this past week.

At some point in the fight, I will hit a point where I can no longer move or use any abilities. Can’t even dodge. There are no conditions on me and no particle effects indicating I am stunned/rooted/etc.

It ends up with me dying a quick death as I am unable to fight back or even evade the group attacking me.

What causes this? Is there any way to prevent it?

I have that problem some times after using certain movement abilities on all of my classes. It seems they get “stuck” in the world and I can’t move/cast/dodge/etc. Sometimes I can use the same ability again to unstick, sometimes I have to log out and back in. Not sure how to prevent it at all.

No way to prevent, but I’ve had a couple guildies say the same. I used to get ‘stuck’ with the same and flashing skills, like stuck like my guy could not do a thing.

Only thing that ‘sometimes’ seem to break it… and your going to laugh. Emote a /dance

For some reason it releases you. Works in most situations for me and others who have tried it. I know it’s silly, but it works. Even occurred last night. I know in the heat of battle it’s painful to type in a quick emote, but you have nothing else to do. Try it. All i can suggest.

If you have a skill that moves your character it will get you unstuck.

Let me guess, you were playing an elementalist?

i had that happen to me as well when i was trying to get into tower while it was being siege and i got stuck right at the gate but no one saw me dou to the fact that was stealth i got unstuck a few seconds later and got in before stealth wore off

dreztina.4820:

Let me guess, you were playing an elementalist?

Mostly yes, but I’ve had it happen on my Mesmer too

Happened on my guardian too…best way to die when you are in an 2/3v1 and need to move around a lot…

same here, stuck in middle of fights, and after siege is build and you are standing near it, also while rapairing gates/walls
iow when this happens send a bug report.

I’ve been stuck for 10-15 secs after building siege a number of times.

A different (and probably unrelated, but funnier) phenomenon is getting stuck in an animation of some sort.

Switching weapons will get you out of it if it’s a building or repairing action.

Typically, this only happens to me after building or attempting to build a siege site (that is, my character leans down to unload supply, but the site is built before I actually use said supply). Usually a quick teleport will let me move again, either immediately, or after a few more seconds of randomly pounding the keyboard.

I’ll be sure to try the /dance emote next time, thanks Hexin.

Yup i get this alot on my Engi as well usually he gets stuck in a walk position

I use to think it was the game pad I was using was freaking out. Then I noticed my necro lowers her staff like she is starting to walk and just never moves. So bug it is.

This has happened to my Mesmer on numerous occasions. I thought that I was just being immobilised and the condition symbol wasn’t showing up on screen, but it can happen out of battle too. I usually have to use blink to get moving again.

This has happened many, many times to me, always after getting hit by a cata shot….though just once it was after a minotaur charge! /dance breaks it.

I’ve had it happen on my guardian when using Symbol of Wrath (GS4). My character just keeps going through the “plunging the sword into the ground” motion over and over again like he’s doing something obscene, and NOTHING breaks him out of it, unlike the version of the bug where using a skill that moves you frees you. I’ve died a couple times to this, though I have no idea what causes it. My suspicion is being hit with a dozen disables or something simultaneously

I’ve had that happen on my Guardian, and /dance will break it. But who has time for that in WvW combat?

I had a character that was in the water and never stopped the swimming animation after getting up on dry land. Just sat there, constantly waving her arms around like a mental patient. Also had the same character get stuck holding her arm straight up in the air.

I find if I get hit by entangling roots on a slight slope the character is permanently falling half an inch and cannot cast/move, so there is no movement ability option to get out.. because you can’t cast while falling ^^.

Only way out is to die :/