Horrible, Sudden and Weird PS3 Lag

[ShadowVulcan]

Hey guys, I've begun to experience some very bad/weird lag. I'll start by saying I've never lagged this badly before. Up until I logged on tonight, everything had been fine.

When I logged on, I noticed that it took quite a while longer to "load menus" up such as the FC board or my skills when I switched cross hotbars.

After that, I saw that animations for skills I use would take a good 1 or 2 seconds to actually play which was very annoying. For example, I stood on top of a branch in Larkscall (East Shroud) and used Spineshatter Dive on a Molted Ziz. I should be on the ground, right? But nope, the Ziz lost the correct amount of HP as normal, but the animation did not occur until WELL after, so far after, that the Ziz had recovered from the stun and walked up the branch - only then did the animation play.

Well, I do admit that was a severe case of this "animation lag" but the general concept persists albeit less serverely. I've never had this type of lag before so it did come as quite a shocker. However, issues with getting out of AoEs and all of the "usual problems" associated with lag are non existent.

I don't think it's a connection problem since my brother plays FFXIV in the same house and his game is absolutely fine. My internet connection on my other devices such as laptops is also working as usual.

Though I have been having some problems with my PS3 (Slim). I had to hold the reset button because it wouldn't switch off quite a few times - wondering if this has anything to do with the problem? I've also had the game crash on me a few times - a lot more since 2.1 hit.

Any idea on what I can do? Reinstall the client? Wait until the hotfix?

Thanks in advance for the help, everyone

P.S. Odin Server here