Guild Wars 2

I’m playing a thief. Sometimes, when I get blasted down while using the short bow, my character immediately teleports in front of me and my Shadow Escape (the #2 thief downed skill) is on a long (like 12+ seconds) cooldown.

Shadow Escape and Cluster Bomb have the same hotkey, so this seems like the result of button-mashing 2 while dying.

But the weird thing is that Shadow Escape is supposed to start out on cooldown when you’re downed, you know? So it shouldn’t be available immediately to begin with. (The larger concern is whether you can do this with other downed skills, like Vengeance.)

I got this to happen twice in the course of 3 hours in WvW.

1. why are you “Button-mashing” "2 short bow skill that would make the shot explode right as it leaves the bow, making it likely miss your target by a LONG shot.

2. where you got the info that #2 downed should start on a cd? i never seen anything about that, nor have it ever seemed that way on any of my toons (and I played since BWE1)