Walk up near a hostile encounter, but don't get close enough to enter combat.
When I do that, all my non-combat options are locked out, even if I retreat. I mean things like the imp going invisible, arcane recovery, the out-of-combat heal, etc. I tried:
- Walking away. Failure - even halfway across the map you are still restricted.
- Toggling turn mode. Failure - no change.
- Waypoints. Partial failure - waypoints within the same map fail; using waypoints to different maps removes the lock.
- Quit to menu. Failure - no change.
- Full quit. Failure - no change. (Appeared to work once; more testing required.)
- Save/reload. Failure - no change.
So the only thing that appears to work is changing maps. This makes no sense - the in-combat options should not be locked out until we are actually in combat, not 'barely spotted an enemy and still in the same area'.