orange glow kills me after being revived.
Ah, that’s simple. When you go down, you get 4 skills to choose from, right? The first one causes slight damage, the second one knocks down your foe, the fourth one channels health… What you’re experiencing is the effect of the third skill. When you use it, you are revived for 15 seconds. When those 15 seconds are over, you die. However, after every enemy you kill in that state, there’s a chance that you’ll rally, i.e. won’t die after the time limit expires. It’s good for life-or-death gambles, finishing off near-dead foes, or positioning yourself in a more convenient spot for potential resurrection. Check out the description of the third skill when you go down next time. Most likely you kept using that skill without checking what it does and thus got “fake” resurrections.
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That is called Vengance if I recall (or something like that anyway), it’s the 3rd button in downed stat that you can use. It will basically res you for a short time after which you will be instantly ‘defeated’.
There is a trait you can pick wich will remove the effect if you kill a mob before it expires but I cant remember which trait row it is on.
If you don’t have this trait you will have to either not use the 3rd downed state button or use it then die 30 secs later (and in both instances other players will more than likely die trying to revive you, as they all decided to ress you and promptly got oneshot by the boss… yes… this does happen >_>)
It’s called “vengeance” but ArenaNet should re-name it “nuisance” because thats what it really is in my opinion.
Ah, that’s simple. When you go down, you get 4 skills to choose from, right? The first one causes slight damage, the second one knocks down your foe, the fourth one channels health… What you’re experiencing is the effect of the third skill. When you use it, you are revived for 15 seconds. When those 15 seconds are over, you die. However, after every enemy you kill in that state, there’s a chance that you’ll rally, i.e. won’t die after the time limit expires. It’s good for life-or-death gambles, finishing off near-dead foes, or positioning yourself in a more convenient spot for potential resurrection. Check out the description of the third skill when you go down next time. Most likely you kept using that skill without checking what it does and thus got “fake” resurrections.
Ahh! Thank you! I’ve been wondering about this as well. I knew what the effect was called I just didn’t know why or how. I will never touch that third downed skill ever again.
Ah, that’s simple. When you go down, you get 4 skills to choose from, right? The first one causes slight damage, the second one knocks down your foe, the fourth one channels health… What you’re experiencing is the effect of the third skill. When you use it, you are revived for 15 seconds. When those 15 seconds are over, you die. However, after every enemy you kill in that state, there’s a chance that you’ll rally, i.e. won’t die after the time limit expires. It’s good for life-or-death gambles, finishing off near-dead foes, or positioning yourself in a more convenient spot for potential resurrection. Check out the description of the third skill when you go down next time. Most likely you kept using that skill without checking what it does and thus got “fake” resurrections.
Ahh! Thank you! I’ve been wondering about this as well. I knew what the effect was called I just didn’t know why or how. I will never touch that third downed skill ever again.
Man, I’ve seen you knock this ability before and it makes me laugh, if you take two passives, one that gives you more health on rally and one that gives you a 100% chance to rally if you kill something during Vengeance, you will die less and you can chain rally to solo otherwise tough situations, it is a fantastic tool esp with those passives.
As a related note has anybody else noticed vengence can kill you a second time if you waypoint quick after being power spiked back down? I’ve had 2 occasions in WvW where I managed to avoid the stomp while solo long enough to get back up with vengeance but got powerspiked by a recently arrived group a couple seconds later and got back to the WP before the 15s since I triggered vengence were up and keeled over agian at the WP. Its prety rare for this to happen as you prety much have to loose a 1v1 who is a bit slow on the stomp but still have a good sized backup group arrive shortly there after and then instantly release. I didnt take any armor damage on the second death and a nearby guard revived me but it was still kinda odd.
Thank you all so much for the help, it makes sense now!