Guild Wars 2

I’m having the same issue actually. But it seems to happen only on my warrior so far. Out of no where, I’m unable to cast my abilities or interact with anything, like resurrecting my friends or picking up an object. And it only goes away if I do a re-log or get downed (I haven’t tried WPs as it only happened three times so far and I didn’t think of it).

However, the strangest part is that when this happens to me, I’m able to dodge infinitely as my endurance bar doesn’t run out. So I can’t attack or interact but I can dodge forever. And I think this is in-game and not a D/C since my leveling partner saw me rolling around consecutively. Of course, I quickly re-log when this happens since this is an exploit I think. And I submitted a bug report. But I don’t know what causes this to happen. It happens usually in fighting and has only occur on my warrior.

This happens to me all the time in WvWvW. I myself don’t abuse it but I can see the potential for it as a mesmer.

Wow I had no idea it gives infinite dodge. That makes this bug so much more critical.

Necros could use the talent that drops an aoe mark when dodging and roll around for insane aoe damage.

isn’t just lag?

I found if you can take fall damage that gets you pancaked, it will “correct” this…

I tried building siege equipment, manually changing weapons in hero panel, and other things… When your in a zerg in WvWvW and are attacking the far keep of the zone, re-logging isn’t really an option… downed is risky, I am just glad I found a tall wall.

Good find on the exploit I think those are about the only way to get anything addressed or fixed in the game is if an exploit is attached… I think we just need to get the exploit word typed in here about 100 more times so ANET may actually read this exploit thread…. and address the gave breaking issue…

This is well knows as infinite dodge bug.

This happens when you attempt to pick up a bundle item and it disappears while you’re picking it up. There may be other causes, but this is the one I’ve noticed. This is particularly common since most people have AoE loot on interact enabled and often end up picking up banners or conjure weapons by mistake because of it.

Elrey.5472:

isn’t just lag?

Definitely not, when it occurs I can happily chat away with other people and do everything else just fine, and the battle rages on around me while I can’t attack or use any skill at all.

The only way to fix it, is to get downed, waypoint away, or relog.

Nar.8327:

This happens when you attempt to pick up a bundle item and it disappears while you’re picking it up. There may be other causes, but this is the one I’ve noticed. This is particularly common since most people have AoE loot on interact enabled and often end up picking up banners or conjure weapons by mistake because of it.

It’s quite possible that’s the cause. I use Aoe looting and it has always happened to me in the middle of zerg open world boss fights or zerg guild missions.

This has the potential to be a really bad exploit.

I wonder if this could be reproduced by getting an ele to conjurer weapons and then getting a group of people to try picking one up all at once?

I would hate to see a group of Warriors, Engis and Necros with their ‘Aoe on roll’ skills coming through with infinite roll.

Elrey.5472:

isn’t just lag?

Nope, totally different.

happened to me today i thought it was just a con so used a shout to remove it and nope it was just weapons skills wouldn’t work but my shouts and elite skill still worked

Any idea if this will be addressed? We seem to have found the cause now, yet nothing. New threads are popping up weekly on this.

Ghostextechnica.3270:

The only way to fix it, is to get downed, waypoint away, or relog.

You can try to drop to siege and then cancel. Works for me…

I had a feeling there was already a topic on this. Although this has happened to me occassionally in the past, it usually could be fixed my weapon-swapping from the hero panel. Today however, that didn’t work and happened to me on three occassions during the large-scale living story events; twice on my ranger and once on my warrior. I am bound to encounter this again, so I’ll try the waypointing or fall damage tricks; much better than relogging and missing and losing at least 15 minutes of effort.

Interestingly, during the marionette event, I hopped into a golem while bugged and was able to use it’s shield skill, while I couldn’t use any of the other skills. But of course, I couldn’t leave the golem because the #5 skill doesn’t work.

happens to me all the time in sPVP and in world events on my thief. EXTREMELY annoying

Twice out of the four times I did the marionette Meta event this happened on my ranger and could only fix with a death or WP.

Bloody annoying.

it mostly occurs whenever i’m spamming interact and running or being interrupted/knocked back when attempting to pick up a bundle, banner, conjured weapon, stomping a player, or rezzing a dead/downed player or npc.

i’ve been able to recreate it a few times in Maw fractal when spamming to pick up a reflect crystal when i get knocked down or i’m running past it and get out of range for actually picking up the reflect crystal.

using an item in your inventory that creates a bundle or changes your skill bar (like musical instruments, spiky fruit, etc.), being downed, or sometimes swapping in a new weapon from your inventory will fix the issue.

Thanks for the tips. After waiting for the LS event to pop in overflow, when it did start all skills locked up. I re-connected but was thrown into another overflow where the event was not going on (thought events were same time on all servers?). I’ll try these suggestions from now on.

Happened to me during the new Wurm boss last night. Worst timing ever.

A lot people experiencing this bug and I always get it when some epic boss battle is going on.

I can confirm this, all skills on the right (keys 6-0) on my Mesmer stopped working several times in dungeons last night, skills (keys1-5) on the left kept working. This happens in combat, ready skills don’t respond and un-ready skills no longer show a count-down. Also weapon switch key didn’t work.

Had this happened in the following Dungeons:
- Caudecus’s Manor
- Sorrow’s Embrace
- Honor of the Waves

I found that opening the character screen (H key) and manually switching weapons resolved the issue. The unable to switch weapons at the last boss in path 1 of Honor of the Waves is an old problem that happens sometimes but, never seen all of the skill buttons on the right (keys 6-0) stop working.

Same thing happened last night to my girlfriend during the Marionette event. She was fighting and suddenly lost her ability to use most of her skills. Strangely enough she could use her F keys and number 7 and 8 abilities but the rest wouldn’t work. When you click then it shows being depressed but no actions happens.

We haven’t mentioned anything before as its only happened a couple times but now to see it being a bigger problem others are having so hopefully Anet will take a look at what might be happening.

Paradox.5498:

Happened to me during the new Wurm boss last night. Worst timing ever.

Happened again last night, this time during the marionette fight. Tried everyhting I could think of, including waypointing, but nothing helped. I got it fixed eventually by getting downed on purpose by the champ during phase 2 (one of the 5 pads below Mario). Still annoying and even though we succeeded the phase, I hate that I’ve got to resort to dying mid-fight to get my skills working again.

Can we get a dev to post about this? This bug is very game breaking and is ruining my GW2 exp. You have to down/die to fix this issue and it really needs to be fixed asap!

Ghostextechnica.3270:

Any idea if this will be addressed? We seem to have found the cause now, yet nothing. New threads are popping up weekly on this.

Picking up bundles aren’t the only cause of this issue. I have had it on occasion with no bundles or anything else to be picked up anywhere near me.

Luckily, for me, I haven’t encountered it in awhile, but I wouldn’t want the Devs to only focus on a bundle-pickup solution.

this is a lag problem. you need highspeed internet not slow speed posing as high speed. 5mb+ /ps at minimum preferably 10mb+/ps

Kelly.7019:

this is a lag problem. you need highspeed internet not slow speed posing as high speed. 5mb+ /ps at minimum preferably 10mb+/ps

Numerous people have already explained and proven that this has nothing to do with lag.

Kelly.7019:

this is a lag problem. you need highspeed internet not slow speed posing as high speed. 5mb+ /ps at minimum preferably 10mb+/ps

Has nothing to do with lag.

Just happened to me twice in a row while trying to do the Wurm and Marionette. The only skills that worked were Attunement Swap and Arcane Wave (instant-cast skills.) Other people around me were complaining too (“My skills aren’t firing.”)

this bug happens more and more for me and some friends. mostly related by the failing pick up situations already explained in this thread. down state or relogging are some solutions to that, but I rather would have that very annoying bug to be fixed, since both workaround solutions aren’t “possible” every time.

I had this problem today during the defend phase of the marionette phase. The only skills I could use were scepter 2 and 3 (elementalist), probably because they have no casttime. Even after I went through the portal the problem remained. After I got downed by the champ, though, it worked as usual again.
At least three other people had this problem during the same event, the one two hours later and four hours later.

Edit: I also had this bug at several other times in the game, but during these mega-events with lots of people it seems to occur much more commonly.

Glenstorm.4059:

Just happened to me twice in a row while trying to do the Wurm and Marionette. The only skills that worked were Attunement Swap and Arcane Wave (instant-cast skills.) Other people around me were complaining too (“My skills aren’t firing.”)

Got this on my thief – and like you, only skills (in my case the run speed signet and my venom) that can activate even during other skills would work.

I seem to recall trying to waypoint, but I can’t recall if that fixed it for me (at least, I don’t think it did until I waypointed to another map).

I had it happen a couple of times on my necro. If it were lag, I wouldn’t be able to operate other functions of the game.

Ugh this bug… holy crap. Second time it’s happened during marionette fight. Ugh lol I can use all my instant utility skills but its still really annoying, I even waypointed somewhere far away enough that I got a loading screen, but it was the same zone. I guess downed, relogging and possibly changing maps are the only ways to “fix” this stupid bug ?

This bug can fail the whole Marionette event for hundreds of people when they head onto the platforms and can’t help out at all.

I saw a number of people complaining in chat.

Ghostextechnica.3270:

This bug can fail the whole Marionette event for hundreds of people when they head onto the platforms and can’t help out at all.

I saw a number of people complaining in chat.

This happened to me lol. Got onto a platform and my skills weren’t responding. The only thing I could do to help was spam Arcane Wave and Attunement Swap to trigger Elemental Attunement :p

I had this today. Could use Shouts but nothing else.

I had GS/Rifle equipped and Healing Signet, Bolas, 2 shouts and Battle Standard. Never used Bolas before and the 3 times I equip them, I either lose skills or DC.

Hit me just before the marionette fight. Thank goodness for this thread, as letting myself get downed fixed it.

I had this bug two times today in the same event: Twisted Marionette.

idk why, but maybe return from platforms could be the problem

This happened to me as well. Caused me not to be able to cheer (emotes didn’t work either) after we defeated her and thus miss the achievement. Not a happy camper here.

I noticed when it happens you can use those consumable help items that Anet moved to a 30 minute cooldown, the flame elemental powder, ogre whistle or mortar and that will unlock your skills again.

Great, now the warriors are all setting their dodges to deeps and jumping into lag.

You know what comes next. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsOxcJYku8A

It has happened to me, and always seems to happen to 3-5 people over the course of the Marionette fight.

It happened to me a lot. I found what normally triggers it is when you’re hitting ‘pickup loot’ and you accidentally try to pick up a banner or conjure weapon. It bugs out once you cancel the pickup by moving. Then you essentially have to be ‘reset’ by knockdown, downed state, fall damage or death.

I started paying more attention to if its loot or pickup weapon and no troubles since.

It happened to my warrior multiple time while I was doing the marionette fight. I was unable to use any skill and had to re-log, taking the risk that I’ll be put into an overflow. Luckily I was able to join into the main flow through my party member. But I get no credit for the event, which means no chest, no reward. This is really frustrating. Hope anet could solve this problem

chiming in to mention that this has happened to me multiple times also, fortunately only in PvE.

While this hasn’t happened to me, I have noticed a large amount of people complaining about it in map chat during these events.

I have also noticed this on Marionette and WvW. On my necro, I can go into plague but I cannot my skills in plague either. I know another fix is to get dazed. So if you are in WvW you can get hit by an Eagle Raptor.

I am going to guess this is occurring from a stun/daze making a stop state for the skills and not activating the skills once the daze/stun is over. This should be a really easy fix once their QA has 100% repro rates.

I had this happen last night during Marionette, but everything worked except for weapon swap. It was really strange.