Guild Wars 2

Sorry if there was another post to this, but I wanted to make a topic with a clearer title.

Are there any plans to fix this? Or at least make the “rule” of how to drop out of combat a little more consistent. Sometimes it works just fine and I drop combat when there hasn’t been a mob or player hitting me for over 30 seconds and then there’s been times where I have been stuck with almost no hp and moving slower for over 5 minutes.

It seems that you need to get a certain horizontal distance away from what ever put you in combat, it will drop and everything goes back to normal, but if you get away from the target vertically (jump puzzle), you seem to never drop combat. And if you go into stealth and move away from a mob combat will never drop until you fight a new mob, and then it only has a slight chance of actually dropping after killing the new mob.

Anyways I was just hoping if we could get an idea of what conditions must be met to actually drop combat because they seem all too inconsistent.

PS I lost a 3v1 fight because it didn’t drop combat after I killed the first person and the other 2 people were hiding around a corner, and I did see their hp regen while mine sat there doing nothing. /RAGE

Logging out and back in should drop combat. It’s not a perfect solution, and of course won’t work if you’re in a WvW jumping puzzle. But if you’re out in the world trying to do a puzzle or view a vista or use a waypoint and phantom combat has you stuck, just relog.

Yea I have done that a few times myself, but that feels like cheating. There are occasions when its warranted (being at the very top of a jump puzzle and nothing is any where close to you).

But there’s also times where you could climp up a mini jump puzzle to get to a vista with several krait in pursuit, for example, and just log out to character select when you get to the top despite having about 10 of them about to kill you. Log back in, they are all gone, and you are still alive, and out of combat as far as viewing the vista is concerned.

The second example feels very exploity, and I don’t think its something the developers intended, when they designed it.

I don’t like how you remain in combat no matter what if you still have a debuff on you.

Dortmunder.9572:

I don’t like how you remain in combat no matter what if you still have a debuff on you.

Personally I can live with that because then you at least have some kind of count down of when it will drop, but it does suck if you are going to die because of those conditions on you and having so little hp left after killing something.

Happens all the time when using a stealth build to hop in and out of stealth.

This is very annoying indeed! Happens all the time to me.

Had this issue yesterday. I jumped into the water and teleported to a waypoint from there.

I had this happen several times for me.

It usually happens if I fight 2 or more mobs at once and I’m stuck in combat even after defeating all of them.

Or it happens if I get aggro from a mob and I run away to reset it, I get stuck in combat and HP not regenerating when the mob resets.

Logging out and back in will fix it, but should not necessary.

Yep, I thought it was only me, apparently everyone is having the similar effect.