in the open world, no buffs out of the ordinary, problem started seemingly out of the blue while attacking the giant gold mob that spawns at the end of a salvage dig
whenever i cast a maelstrom spender, it doesnt spend maelstrom, it gets all the benefits as if i spent maelstrom, but the stacks dont go down, even spamming lightning bolt or healing surge. problem persisted after the initial mob was dead, and while attacking other mobs and healing allies thereafter. I was stuck in combat upon trying to log out or exit the game, despite not being in combat. force closing the game and relogging did not fix the issue.