Guild Wars 2

when engineer using any kit, and pick up a banner drop by other player.

it takes about 1 sec to “Pick up”, if you click the “drop bundle/swap weapon” during the 1 sec. you are not able to attack or do anything. The only skill that works is “Surprise shot”

This might not seen important, but when I’m doing the living world farming, I have to relog to solve the problem which push me in to the overflow channel. If you don’t relog, you can’t do anything and it is not cool at all!!!

I run an engi on my main and I’ve never had this problem. I have always been able to drop the bundle straight away after picking it up, granted it is a pain to drop and requip a kit tho.

I’ll give you a tip, do NOT press F ever in combat unless you are trying to res someone. For picking up your loot turn on auto AOE loot and set it to “c” and you will NEVER pick up a banner/turret ever again by accident.

Hope that helps.

This is the infamous “skill lock” bug. It seems to happen occasionally when picking up a bundle item fails for some reason at a specific moment in the pickup sequence – i.e., you try to pick up a banner, but someone else picks it up at the same time, or you try to pickup a bundle item while moving and end up just out of range. Since a ton of people have their AoE loot function bound to their interact key, this happens sometimes in battles where lots of banners and conjured weapons are lying around. Unfortunately, it’s a really difficult thing to find the cause of, which is probably why it’s taking a long time to fix. Like you reported, skills with no cast time are unaffected.

In the meantime, the following are reliable ways to un-bug your skills:

-Zoning
-Re-logging
-Getting downed
-Taking fall damage sufficient to cause your character to “splat”