Okay so I had haste on from just leaving a group, and I see a spirit master. I stealth up, roll right up on him and try to perf. (Of course this misses because I missed the requirement of "only on a rainy tuesday afternoon after tea time") So I start swinging. Out of about 13 swings (including offhands) 1 hit strikes the sm, 12 or so hits the pet. Now, I might have just not fought enough SMs on live for 6 years to know, but im pretty sure that their intercept rate was NO WHERE NEAR over 90%. Maybe I got really unlucky. But this happened in the BGs as well. And the worst part is, its totally random. Sometimes the pet only takes 3-4 swings, other times ive had it take all, meanwhile the sm is free to lifetap me into the dirt because they dont even need to be facing me to cast.

Is this a known bug, or is this me just getting an outlandish streak of bad luck on multiple occasions? Anyone else have this issue?

Maybe I got really unlucky

you got your problem right there

the intercept rate is high though - however this is based on live tests

If i remember right, there was such thing as a timer after which pet cant intercept again. Might just be my imagination though.
I remember Pet not intercepting for like 3-4 seconds after one intercept.
This could be worth testing imho.

Greetings
Ensiferum

it makes no sense to attack a sm alone i always attack them in uo u need 1 who mezz/stun the pet otherwise u are dead