Pet Parade is non-functional for high-ping players.

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Summary:
Pet Parade does not correctly summon a sequence of friend pets consistently if the user does not have low ping. (So far, users with >100 ping have reported major issues. Users >60 ping have reported minor issues.)

Difficulty:
Advanced - renders a huge portion of the player base unable to use a key action, and negatively impacts gameplay by failing to summon pet but applying the cooldown timer.

Occurrence:
Always - Sometimes one or two pets are summoned, but frequently, no pets are summoned.

Details:
How to replicate in 3 easy steps:

1. Live anywhere but the West Coast of the United States.
2. Summon a Pet with Friends.
3. Use Pet Parade. There will be a long period of delay where nothing occurs. One or Two pets may be summoned. Subsequent attempts to use Pet Parade will fail. All Friend Pets will be on an invisible cooldown despite their summoning having failed.
   My ping is ~160-200. I am located in the UK.
   Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgxoPQeiTbs

[flat bobcat]

Hmm... I'd greatly appreciate if other high ping players could chime in on this as well so we could understand this issue a little more!

[supple talon]

I have around 100 ping, and my pet parade skips summons too, but did not place the skipped ones on cooldown
Its visually not on cooldown, but is still unable to be summoned lol

It works properly sometimes as well

[kindred widget]

It isn't difficult for me to replicate the 'cooldown' issue with a regular pet summon.

1. Have high ping.
2. Summon a pet and then desummon it after it loads the summon request but before it summons the pet - you have about a 1.5 second window to do this on high ping.
3. The pet is now on cooldown, but the timer is not displayed. The summon effects have not occurred.

Here is a video displaying an instance where one pet in the Pet Parade managed to be summoned. The pet that breaks through is not consistent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0AqHGDNcW0&feature=youtu.be

[dense breach]

I live in the west coast and initially had some pets not get summoned and all 5 pets were put on CD
it began to summon all 5 pets after some time and repeated attempts
but havent tried doing it again after restarting my client and cache

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What is your ping, perchance?

[dense breach]

60

i tried it now after closing the game and summoned all 5 pets fine 3 times in a row
might be either a first time thing loading it
but the delay inbetween each pet summon is noticeable but havent tested in real combat yet or a party

[opal pasture]

i tried pet parade on feth boss with around 60 ping and kept getting the first one on visual cd, 2nd on cd with no visual along with 2nds debuff missing the mob too

[rotund vapor]

same issue as Alkanoid here

around 80 ping here

[rose trail]

(The cmd window is the mabi ping tool)
The more ping you have, the more chances of a pet not summoning, and since we're quite rich in ping, none of them summon.

s'alright though, I'm sure myself and like, the 8 other aussies on here don't mind, earth is big

[stiff zodiac]

Can confirm the same is happening on my end, I linked 5 different Nimbuses (Nimbi?) to demonstrate and it skipped one of them

Also, spamming the action interrupts the summoning and the rest of the pets won't appear (it also puts the action on a 5-second Cooldown though that part might be intentional)

[fringe basin]

My pet parade skips summons fairly frequently too 😦 im usually about 140 ping

[dense breach]

just had one that failed to summon 4 of them
not very reliable sometimes

[clever aspen]

im high ping and i had no idea u r supposed to be able to see the pets be summoned like in snowies video, for me no pets have never ever appeared when using pet parade.

[rose trail]

follow-up post reno 7 update, patch notes indicate "Improvements have been made to the newly added Pet Parade action that allow it to perform better under higher latencies." however this is still happening.
-# not that i expected it to work since we're really far from the server but thanks for trying

[untold dust]

I still experienced this 2 days ago while running Tech Duinn missions. I ironically have the low ping side (3~10, West Cost). I would experience this somewhat 1/3 times. It will either summon only 1/3 of the slotted pets, putting 2~3 in cooldown while never visibly summoned or it will summon none and put into cooldown

[untold dust]

I managed to get an example of it happening. I pressed Pet Parade, summoned pet 1(Mir), skips pet 2(Tabby Purrling), summoned pet 3(Fallen Fairy). Pressing pet 2 slot will indicate message saying the pet is in cooldown when it's not visibly in cooldown or summoned(pet debuff for Tabby Purrling not applied)

[crude pebble]

I routinely have 14 ping locally (around 82 when factoring servers in California USA -- I live on the East Coast USA), and I can confirm that Pet Parade does skips summons, and the summons that are skipped are still sent into cooldown.