Guild Wars 2

I’m sure a lot of people have noticed it by now, that after the update (at least for me) my skills tend not to work at all. I can still walk, chat and don’t seem to be lagging. But can’t use any skills whatsoever.

Does anyone know the best solution for this?

This has happened to me- zoning in and out of map seems to work.
If you happen to be doing a major event though that is about as useful as having no skills

Happened to me once during behe and once during robo-lady on my engi. Robo-lady righted itself, not sure what, if anything I did to trigger the fix.

You can also dodge forever.

Getting killed fixes it. Switching maps usually fixes it. Supposedly emotes can sometimes fix it (at least according to some people on map chat the other day) but I’ve never actually tried that solution.

Electro.4173:

Getting killed fixes it. Switching maps usually fixes it. Supposedly emotes can sometimes fix it (at least according to some people on map chat the other day) but I’ve never actually tried that solution.

Nah wasn’t killed or switching maps. It was in the marionette fight (which of course I wasn’t about to leave). Suddenly skills started working again – not sure what triggered it.

Its a painful experience. Happened to me right before porting onto a puppet platform and I was as useless as kittens on a bull until I was downed. I thought for sure porting would have fixed it.

It’s trigger by items on the ground. You try and pick it up at the same time some one else does for instance.

Your skills stop working until you can pick up that same object again.

Get downed, fall off a ledge to go to downed state or by a monster.

Use the launch pad at tequatl.

Had the same during marionette as an engineer. Was stuck like this for a minute or two, and seemingly randomly i only got out by switching onto a kit. Not sure if that was what fixed it, but i dont think so. No other utilities worked in that time either, so no kits should have worked either.

As it has already been mentioned, it’s caused by picking up any kind of object from the ground (banners, cannonballs in sPvP).

It has been happening for quite a few months now and I keep being unlucky and get it nearly every time I pick something up. And the weird thing with this bug is that it seems some players aren’t so unlucky because they have never heard of it.

Here’s what doesn’t fix this bug (or at least, not all the time) :
-switching your weapon
-removing your weapons
-going underwater
-using a WP in the same map
-using a spy kit

And what fixes it :
-falling from high enough to fall flat on the ground (doesn’t have to kill you)
-getting dazed
-getting downed

But you can still use your shouts (happens a lot on my guardian…).

RedStar.4218:

As it has already been mentioned, it’s caused by picking up any kind of object from the ground (banners, cannonballs in sPvP).

It has been happening for quite a few months now

Months?!! Surely something like this should be a priority fix? If you’re in an open world event (doing quite well too) then your only option is to bail entirely on the event in one way or another? Losing all of your progression? That to me is game breaking, can we please get an eta on fix or at least an ’we’re working on it’?

It happens to be in large groups, on average 1-2 times per night, when I am using my GS guardian.

I’ve NEVER had it happen with my shortbow/longbow Ranger.

And yep, months… makes me a little sad. Hopeful that it’s part of the “big patch”