Mastermind Pets are stuck, no matter where I am.

Weird scenario, my pets won't seem to move at all. I have restarted the game as well as zoned out but nothing seems to work. Any ideas on how to fix this?

I had this happen to me a couple of weeks ago. My pets just plain stopped following me or doing anything at all, although I could still TP them, get them to "say" things when I switched stances on them, and they'd also auto-tp to me if I moved far enough away.

I did a "/petcomall dismiss" (which got a verbal response from them but no animation) and then logged off and back in. Then I could summon them and they all worked. It's like the /sync bug but for pets or something.

I've run into the same bug from time to time, and I *may* have stumbled onto a workaround. Here's my method for "breaking" this problem.

1. Return to the last zone where the pets could and did move around.
2. Click on the pet controls menu buttons for "all pets", to bring up the "dismiss" option. Dismiss them. If they do not physically disappear, then do it again.
3. After the pets physically disappear, on being dismissed, and give their "I've just been dismissed" scripts, I go to the zone where I'd like to be able to use them.
4. Re-summon all pets, buff, and continue.

I stumbled onto this because it always seems to strike just after I enter a zone, and they can't move, plus they can't be dismissed at that point either. So, I'd go back to the previous zone, dismiss, and move forward from there.

I've tried this several times in the last week or thereabouts, and it always seems to work. Its almost as if the pets bring along their bodies to a new zone, but leave behind their ability to move in the immediately previous zone. Until I return to the zone *before* the one in which they stopped moving, and dismiss them *there*, I don't seem to be able to eliminate their inability to move.

The bug and the seemingly reliable workaround are both bizarre, though, and it would be helpful if other(s) can confirm or disconfirm this as a reliable workaround.

Recently happened twice to me, too. Zoning into outdoor instances.

Logging--quickly at least--did not help in the one attempt at that.

Solved the problem by dragging nearby enemies to kill the pets, then resummoned them.

Stuck outdoors when zoning .. I think I know that one, I was going from PO to CAP, and they were .. JAMMED. I tried a few things, but I noticed if you wait til they reload they're equip/upgrade powers, THEN take off, they'll follow you like normal. If you run the instant you zone, THAT seems to lock em up. Personal experience anyway. GOOD LUCK.

Since you mentioned it, now it is happening alot to me. Mostly going from outside zone to another.
As someone said I would dismiss and resummon the pets before zoning

Put a bug report in for sure.

If you're talking about zoning, yeah... this almost always happens to me.

I shelved my MMs for this very reason. The "go back to last zone and dismiss" trick worked for a while, but eventually they got stuck when I zoned several times in a mission thread and I had to log off long enough to reset everything to get them back. Way too much of a hassle.

I had this happen to me in the final mission of a Tarikoss SF. Thankfully the team was skilled and /traps is powerful enough that even as an attackless MM I was able to contribute to the fights.

Zoning or dismissing didn't help, although for some reason I didn't think to relog.

I think its gotten worse, last night, I did get jammed a few times at the ferries, I tried zoning with Oro portals, that seemed to help. The portals do, however tend to 'forget' if they're equipped ore not. Just lettin' you know.