Guild Wars 2

I attempted to file a bug report in game on this, however due to the situation I used a waypoint which wiped out my bug report.

I have a lvl 80 thief who uses Superior Rune of the Afflicted. The 6th function of this rune is “Create a Death Nova when you are downed”.

I believe the rune to be the problem, as I only have this issue on my thief, and a good friend of mine who also has a thief has not experienced this (we have similar builds but different runes).

What I first noticed was that once in a while I would get downed by a mob, then instantly rally, but upon rallying, I was stuck. No WASD/mouse movement, however I could still use my weapons. Additionally, the “you are downed” buff/debuff icon was displaying. Still, I was able to use all normal skills and utilities. In fact, I discovered that I could use Infiltrator’s Arrow to break the movement issue, however this does not break the “downed state” problem.
Other than the slowness of “in combat” movement, using Infiltrator’s Arrow gives the player in this state full functionality.
I do not believe this is an exploitable issue, as it is likely the result of Death Nova doing what it is supposed to do which is kill mobs. Additionally, the character functions completely, and will lose health, be downed, and die just as one would normally expect.

I’ve also noticed that when this bug is triggered, I take armor damage.