Freeze lag resulting in death at 93

So I was getting these freezing lag spikes in my last atziri run which made it so I couldn't move at all, forcing me to log each time. I got it 2-3 times before heading into atziri's room, each time it forced me to log to correct it. Well the last time it happened I was fighting atziri, my character completely froze right before atziri was doing a huge flameblast, I decided to log out like I usually do to fix the freeze lag. I would have survived the hit, but she probably would have pinged me down afterwards with her next attack assuming I was still motionless in the game. Well apparently this sort of freezing lag keeps you in the game, because when I logged out to protect my character, it still kept me in the game, and I died to something that would never kill me considering my gear. I was happy with dying for the past few days, I had great ideas for a new build I wanted to try out, but dying to something completely out of my control leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. This feels akin to the days of dying to desync, and it seems like no one even cares or sees this as a problem even though I've seen Raiz die to this freeze lag a few weeks ago and most recently Zizaran dying to it when he tried to log out and the game didn't protect his character even though he had 3k health, that was a day or two ago. There's something going on with the instant log outs not being instant in the past few leagues. I really would like an answer or a step towards some solution, it really blows dying to something my fault. I was really hoping I would mess up and die eventually, but this is a very anti climactic way to die. Anyway here is the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_9CJHccpbc

I say this with all kindness, "Don't hold your breath"!

"My client froze due to lag, so I needed to relog. Then I kept playing, and it happened again. So I relogged, and kept playing, and then it happened again! So I relogged, and then I decided to fight a boss that could easily kill me if it happened again. You'll never believe it, but it happened again! Then I died. I don't understand how this could happen. It was completely unpredictable!"

- Did I get it about right?

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dudiobugtron wrote:

"My client froze due to lag, so I needed to relog. Then I kept playing, and it happened again. So I relogged, and kept playing, and then it happened again! So I relogged, and then I decided to fight a boss that could easily kill me if it happened again. You'll never believe it, but it happened again! Then I died. I don't understand how this could happen. It was completely unpredictable!"

- Did I get it about right?

You sure showed me how much of a moron I am. Why would I assume the boss would easily kill me if it happened? I had no idea the lag keeps me in the game which would result in my death otherwise I would obviously have waited a few hours or something. I was 93, i play very carefully and consider most factors. The way you shape the story makes it sound like oh herpa derp of course I would have died to lag, even though I've had these kind of freezes 20 times on this character alone, and it never killed me before. What reason would i have to believe it would ever kill me if I log out macro?? I know now and so do you, but most people have no idea something like this can kill you even if you log out correctly, that is the whole point of my post in "bug reports". And what do you suggest, for me to wait a day for the lag to go away for sure? How long exactly do you propose? It could still come back randomly at any time. If it happens in a wave of freezes what if the first time had killed me? Would you still find some way to blame me then? Anyway not sure why you're being so hostile, this is meant for the devs, and you're being pretty rude for no reason.

Apologies for coming across as hostile. It seemed obvious to me how it works, but I see that it is not obvious for everybody. (Especially since you got a HC char to level 93 - my best is 88 so I can't really talk about how to avoid dying!)

If the server knows you have logged out, it will take you out of the instance immediately. But if you are getting a full-on freeze lag, with no communication between the server and client, then the server won't know that you are trying to log out. It will keep you in for the full 5s timeout.

I can't help but notice you're playing Flameblast totems, which is on the top of the "Known Issues" post at the top of the bug reports forum. This could actually be that, and not a "lag" thing at all.

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High-Priority Issues:
Flameblast/Flameblast Totem Crashes Sometimes crashing.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1733474

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Rambopvp wrote:

I can't help but notice you're playing Flameblast totems, which is on the top of the "Known Issues" post at the top of the bug reports forum. This could actually be that, and not a "lag" thing at all.

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High-Priority Issues:
Flameblast/Flameblast Totem Crashes Sometimes crashing.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1733474

I realized after I posted this could have to do with it. It could also be a problem with comcast in regards to california servers, I hear things about problems with this kind of lag specifically in this area due to the comcast service here. Not sure, it does seem likely to be a flameblast issue which I honestly hope, since I don't want to die on the builds I try next in a way like this.

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dudiobugtron wrote:

Apologies for coming across as hostile. It seemed obvious to me how it works, but I see that it is not obvious for everybody. (Especially since you got a HC char to level 93 - my best is 88 so I can't really talk about how to avoid dying!)

If the server knows you have logged out, it will take you out of the instance immediately. But if you are getting a full-on freeze lag, with no communication between the server and client, then the server won't know that you are trying to log out. It will keep you in for the full 5s timeout.

Yea, that makes sense. I can understand if you already know this happens, that it can seem dumb for people to let this happen to themselves, but yea I don't think most people know, I know I sure didn't. Even the knowledge of it being a 5 second timeout is very useful to know. Hopefully the more people talk about it the more awareness we can bring to it, maybe GGG can't/won't do much about it, but we can at least inform so people can try to prepare for it as best as possible.

And the same exact thing just killed PT. Death by the game keeping you in the instance even though you log out macro'd