Guild Wars 2

I dont know if this relates to all pickable objects, but sometimes when i try to pick up skull/stone/bone or seed pod/elixir of heroes/egg from earth while not standing at place but walking, i dont pick it up. Instead of that i continue walking straight forward and my character is uncontrolable for few seconds. This often (and maybe only) happen when i press F (to pick it) at the end of pickable area.

Its really unpleasant and it gives advantage to your opponent, even that occur rarely. Do you have any experience with this bug ?

It’s a bug. This happens all the time when you press forward and press F to pickup something (not only items from our pets), without releasing the moving forward key.
Hopefully it will be fixed within a year or two.

Its even worse if you are autowalking and trying to pick things up. Its a stupid bug and anet should feel bad that its there.

Double-tapping/spam tapping your pickup key helps to alleviate some of the auto run issues. Not all, but it’s not as bad at least.