Guild Wars 2

Yeah, I’ve searched the forums and found several buried threads with no follow-up or response. I’ve been patient hoping Anet will get around to fixing this (I’m sure they have a lot on their plate right now), but time has come to raise this issue again. Like many others I have experienced this intermittently since launch (gw2 launch, not HoT launch), annoying but not that big of a deal. Until a couple of weeks ago, when one of the HoT follow up patches (3-4 days after HoT launch?) changed something, now it happens countless times everyday. Using any type of movement skill has about 80-90% chance to root me in place, I’m not joking, it’s easily reproducible. I’ve been observing the behaviour of this bug and have noticed some things, hopefully the following notes will help resolve this.

- Any charge, leap, teleport (e.g, Surge of the Mists, Wings of Resolve, Lightning Flash) has a very high chance to root the character in place. Not 100% chance but very high. This only seems to happen when in combat, I have never been rooted when out of combat.

- The only way to get out of the root is to either use another movement skill or to dodge roll. When using another movement skill, THAT skill has 0% chance to root you in place (at least in my experience). For example, if I use Surge of the Mists, get stuck and then use Phase Traversal everything is fine (i.e. I’m not re-rooted).

- When stuck you are still able to attack and use abilities, but you cannot turn and can only dodge roll forward. Consequently, if you’re facing a cliff you dodge roll off the cliff no matter which way you try to face and dodge roll.

I encounter this behaviour almost in every encounter, which adds up to several dozen times per day and has lead to my death countless times. I’m not sure if this behaviour is terrain dependant as I’ve been mostly playing HoT and terrain in the new maps is very bumpy.

As an Ele, I’ve encountered this bug many times, it seems to come and go with patches. /sit (or any other emote) will normally get you out of it.