Guild Wars 2

On occassion my elementalist will root himself to the spot. The only way to break this root is via the Burning Retreat skill which rolls them backwards.

1. This only happens when in Fire Attunement
2. This only happens with a Staff equipped
3. This started happening on the second Beta weekend before launch
4. It happens when fighting NPCs or Players
5. Happens on any map and in storyline
6. This is the key bit, it only happens if I map more than one ability to a single button (I can’t figure out which ability it is though or which combination) I do know if you map 5321 as a mouse macro it will occur very regularly. Not my normal mapping but I was trying to work out the way to get it to re-occur as much as possible to help out with a fix.
7. There is no icon indicating my root
8. Burning retreat always fixes it
9. It didnt happen during the earlier beta events (its was I think only the second from last that it started on and I did bug it at the time)

So it seems to be maybe an ability firing and then a second one interrupting it I guess. Number 5 ability on that attunement does root you to the spot whilst casting so maybe its linked to that.

If I resort to pressing the keys for those abilities its not an issue. But thats not ideal as I like use all sorts of weird situational mappings.

On further investigation. It appears to be an issue with Meteor Shower.

If meteor shower is attempted to be cast and immediately you cast another spell, interrupting the meteor shower, it will lock you to your position (which is an expected effect of meteor shower)

However because meteor shower does not execute but the rooting part at the start happens you end up rooted and cast the second spell pressed.

Recasting meteor shower removes the root.

This only occurs very occasionally and not every time. It seems there is a certain period of starting to cast meteor shower that causes this and the system still thinks it is casting meteor shower.