Quote Originally Posted by Micah
The guy stopping autofollow is likely because one of your characters is faster then the other. Do you have any enchants or gear that gives your primary character a run speed increase?
I'm pretty sure this is due to lag as well (250 ms is a typical ping time for me). My mages are only level 12 so it's not gear for sure. :-)

The second issue is just lag. Watch the guy on the second screen to see when he really stops, he will always stop later on the primary screen due to latency. You tell the server you are stopping, then the server tells everyone around you that you are stopping. So the message takes about .5 seconds to get to everyone sometimes.
Do you know of a macro command to force a character to stop moving? I've already replaced all of my 2nd mage's spells with macros that first do an "/assist mage1" to pick up the target my main guy has. If I could preface those with something to make them stop moving I could at least avoid the "can't do that while moving" messages the 2nd mage keeps getting while following.