Guild Wars 2

I have an 80 Necro, fully geared. Generally he kicks kitten but for whatever reason, when I am downed, I have NO hitpoints! I literally get hit 3-4 time by an auto attack and I’ve been finished!

Is this working as intended? Or is something horribly bugged with my character?

I would run the repair just to be sure. I tend to overextend a lot due to playstyle so downed frequently. Haven’t seen it bug yet. If you get downed a couple times close together and rally, each time you have a smaller pool of health in the downed state…or at least I do. Eventually, you will skip downed altogether and be insta-dead.

I have experienced this too without being downed at all previously during that play session

Yeah, I definitely don’t the the rally debuff on. At least it seems that I’m not totally alone in this experience.

I have been instantly killed on being downed before. It wasn’t so much an issue of a rally debuff and it not taking much to kill you, but literally you hit the floor and you were already dead.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Downed_penalty

Could this be what’s causing your insta-deaths? Or is this occurring even without the DP?

No, JohnnyBoy it’s not a death penalty thing. I just seem to have no hp while downed. It’s kind of odd compared to other classes.

I have a similar problem with the downstate. I run a full P/V/T gear, but being downed is in >95% of cases a sure death. There is no time to rally at all.

I mostly I die to enemy groups in wvw, so this may in fact be normal, but than I have to say that i regularly see downed warriors/guardians but also other classes survive much longer while a kittenload of people are beating them, so I really think my downed health is ridiculously low.

Is this normal and maybe the gear doesn’t affect your downed health/toughness?

That is odd. I’ve never experienced this problem before, but it seems as though the rest of you are quite familiar with it. If this problem continues, I’d suggest throwing it up on the thread for Necromancer bugs.

JohnnyBoy.5471:

That is odd. I’ve never experienced this problem before, but it seems as though the rest of you are quite familiar with it. If this problem continues, I’d suggest throwing it up on the thread for Necromancer bugs.

I would like to throw it up as a bug, but I don’t have enough info about this. Is it my armor set up that is the cause? Does it happen all the time? Or some of the time? Is this just normal on light armor character? (My other 80s are a Guardian and a Warrior, who will survive many auto attacks before being killed, so I don’t have a good frame of reference). I guess I was throwing it out there to see if in fact, yes, this is a bug; and, if anyone else had experienced it. Or is this just normal behavior?

I have had this happen on my necro as well, where despite not being downed previously I will go down and instantly be dead after 1 hit – no other class I have had has this issue. It is always mindboggling when it happens, and it has happened in both PVE and PVP.

It is not normal. It takes a lot to kill you while you are in the downstate (outside of certain dungeons and PVP finishers).

I’ve never experienced this before, only with Death Penalty.
Try to reproduce more this “bug” so we can know how to avoid it until ArenaNet fix it (in case of being a real bug)

Hi All

Yep I have this issue, also been one shotted from more or less full health to dead bypassing down state, thought it was a class mechanic with light armor?

Personally I never go anywhere with out Death’s Embrace (Spite 1) makes a huge difference.

Ive always noticed necro’s are a lot more squishy than most classes in the downed state regardless of build or gear. Its probably to balance the lifesteal sustain while downed. But at times its just stupid.

Just to also note, it also causes the necro not rallying others bug and it is said to be worked on.

This could be a bug, I had thought I was just unlucky but there have been many times in fractals/dungeons where I have not gone down for ages, then I get downed and die instantly. Definitely gonna start checking combat lot after reading this thread.

could it be counting DS usage as being downed in odd cases perhaps?

It seems to be a random issue, but I have seen it. I don’t go down often in dungeons, but I have seen it where I went down, and not even half a second later I am dead.