The last week I've been experiencing a lot of pet lag. Looking around the forums and Googling it seems like an update a couple of months ago should have fixed this, but it's intermittent and extreme when I experience it.
I've seen pet lag on every channel. When I'm experiencing pet lag I've asked my friends in TeamSpeak and they experience it at the same time - so it's definitely server-side and not client-side. During this time up until the moment I summon OR unsummon a pet, everything works normally. I can walk around, charge skills, attack enemies, etc. If I summon OR unsummon a pet, the "Summoning pet..." dialog pops up and I lose control of my character. This freezing usually lasts 2 minutes or so. During this time enemies still run around, load skills, and attack like normal. If I get attacked I get stunned, knocked back, frozen, etc - all like normal. However I'm unable to load skills, move, attack, or do anything. I can't even open my inventory during this lag. As you can imagine, standing completely still and not reacting while enemies repeatedly smash me in dungeons or shadow missions means I GENERALLY die before the lag ends. If I die before the lag ends then I'm unable to open the menu to bring up my feather until the pet finishes summoning. When the pet finally does finish summoning the summon is successful, even though I'm dead at this point.
I seem to notice this lag most often while the Avalon raid bosses are active. It's not one specific time of day (I've seen it in the morning, afternoon, and evening) and it's not any specific day (I saw it Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday). However there's no way to know if pet lag is going on until I try to summon a pet and freeze up. Other than the 2-minute summon time (during which I can't use any skills or move), the lag doesn't affect anything else. If I never summon pets, the game plays perfectly.
