Guild Wars 2

Downed skill #3 and #4 have always started on cooldown each time you get downed, as far as I can remember. Even if they come off cooldown, but you don’t use them before getting rallied, they will still be back in cooldown if you get downed again 5 seconds later. It’s happened to me countless times. And specifically, skill #3 is always in a long cooldown when you get downed while skill #4 is only a few seconds. Only skill #1 and #2 can be used right away. This goes for all professions.

As far as I know it’s working as intended.

Archranis.2375:

Was playing some fractals earlier and every time I got downed the #3 skill was on cooldown (Tempest). If I’m not mistaken, each time you get downed all 4 skills should start off cooldown and only go to cooldown when you use them.

Downed skills work like any others: the cooldown doesn’t reset because you changed modes, e.g. you can’t reset underwater skills by going back on land and in this case, if your Grasping Earth was on cooldown and you went down again after less than 10s, it would still be on cooldown.