Guild Wars 2

I thought it was just me being careless and pressing “r” key when I usually run towards loot and pick it up using the “f” key, but this has happened so many times that I don’t think it’s me! Soo..I decided to pay attention to the keys I pressed when looting…I noticed that if you run towards your loot, and then pick it up along the way, you will automatically auto-run forward without stopping. I tried to stop myself from running with no avail, it took a few seconds of doing a U turn before I had full control of my character again.

This is especially dangerous when you want to loot something near a dragon, champion or veteran boss, and then run off to a safe distance to resume killing the thing. Instead, I would run straight to it, and almost get myself killed in the process because I couldn’t stop running. I had no control over the running…wasn’t fun at all.

Are you sure you’re not accidentally hitting “R” along with “F”?. I’ve done that a few times. I’m leaning toward this not being the case, but, I thought I should ask, just in case lol

This hasn’t happened to me when I loot, however if I’m moving and I try to pick up ground items like Banners/environment items ect it will trigger this. A person I was doing Fractals of the Mists with had this happen to them while they were trying to pick up the Celestial Hammer while moving and unfortunately he went off the edge instead.

This also happened to me again when I did the shiny apple quest in Queensdale, if you run towards an apple and pick it up, you don’t stop running…and I noticed there is a thread on reddit regarding this bug so at least I’m not alone!