Guild Wars 2

Noticed this a couple times in wvw while playing engineer. Sometimes while defending a keep or tower I would throw down my mortar to aoe enemies below. When using the mortar I frequently need to exit and enter to use the object so that I can grab loot bags, cut and run to another area, etc. This is normal. The bug I have experienced has happened a couple times where I will exit the mortar and my normal 1-5 skills will reappear, however I will be locked into the mortar and unable to move. I can no longer re-enter the mortar to use and the mortar skills wont re-appear. To make matters worse I am unable to use any of my skills 1-5, heals 6 or utilities 7-9. For all intensive purposes, I am stuck and unable to move or do anything until the mortar skill reaches its cooldown and the mortar object itself disappears. But of course usually by that time i have been over-run by the enemy or left behind by my allies.

Has anyone else experienced this? I know the mortar isn’t a commonly used engineer skill…but I still enjoy using it despite its weaknesses. I haven’t established what has caused the problem yet. One theory is it could be due to the frequent exiting and entering…but that is a must anytime u use the mortar. U need to be able to move on the fly and not be tied down for two minutes in case strategies change. One instance when it happened to me was when I was firing on a keep gate. I was keeping my distance and hitting the door with aoes just incase there were people behind it repairing. Of course, I know the mortar does very little damage…but coincidentally my mob of allies took the gate down while I was attending to the mortar. As my allies rushed in to take the keep, I realized I was once again bound to the mortar. I could see my normal engineer skills (1-5)on the tool bar but I couldnt move nor use any skills or utilities. Eventually, the mortar reached cooldown and I could move, but I missed the action by that point. so another theory could maybe half to do with a conflict against world objects (in this scenario the keep inner gate)?

somehow with the mortar i end up shooting myself to the targeted location instead of a projectile.. which makes me lol every time