Guild Wars 2

Ran into an odd bug in LA overflow where all of my instant cast time skills (Smite Condition, Virtues, Judge’s Intervention) work, but none of the skills with a cast time do. I don’t think it is lag related because then my instant skills shouldn’t proc.

Is anyone else experiencing this odd bug? Never seen it before now.

Update: As soon as I left that instance everything was fine again.

This is the infamous “skill lock” bug. It seems to happen occasionally when picking up a bundle item fails for some reason at a specific moment in the pickup sequence – i.e., you try to pick up a banner, but someone else picks it up at the same time, or you try to pickup a bundle item while moving and end up just out of range. Since a ton of people have their AoE loot function bound to their interact key, this happens sometimes in battles where lots of banners and conjured weapons are lying around. Unfortunately, it’s a really difficult thing to reproduce deliberately, which is probably why it’s taking a long time to fix. Like you reported, skills with no cast time are unaffected.

In the meantime, the following are reliable ways to un-bug your skills:

-Zoning
-Re-logging
-Getting downed
-Taking fall damage sufficient to cause your character to “splat”