Blitzing headaches
For the past couple of days I have been blitzing missions non-stop. Trying to save up for a yalm. I start in Rome Blue and roll missions until I have 3 "find object" missions to Trade District. The missions are QL25 missions, same level as my character (alt). Always checking to make sure the mission really was accepted (see posts regarding disappearing missions).
Here is a list of problems I see after playing for 3 or 4 hours.
Most of the time, when I find the item and go to pick it up, I have to disengage from combat by hitting the Q key or right clicking on the combat control on the control bar. My Def -Agg bar is all the way to Def. When there aren't very many mobs, this works perfectly fine. The problems start occuring when I have 10 - 15 mobs "chasing" after me. I find the item, go to pick it up and it won't let me, I look at the control bar and notice that it shows I am not in combat. I try and target a mob, believing that the control is displaying the wrong information because of the number of times I have been shot, and I am unable to target a mob. It states "Please wait for previous action to complete". Now after hitting the Q key about 15-20 times in a state of near panic, the control finally changes to show I am in combat, now I can disengage and pick up the item. Most of the time, a few times I have had to run around in the mission for 30 seconds or so until the control shows I am in combat. This is not my idea of fun. Waiting in a crowded room with 10 - 15 things wanting to kill you and you can't target anything or disengage from combat to pick up the item and get the heck out of there. The fun only gets better after that.
After picking up the item, I start my run through the mission to make it back to the mission entrance and safety. Wrong! I usually run into a room and notice that instead of doors, I now see black squares that I can not run through. I can see the other side. It looks like all the doors are open, but all the lights are out in the rooms beyond. Regardless, I can not run through them. Now sometimes, the door I just ran through still looks like a door and I can back track and hope I find another way out, but this doesn't happen very often. Most times I am stuck in a room with four black squares that used to be doors and no way to leave. The mobs can't get in either, which would be great if they couldn't shoot me or nuke me through the walls, but we already know about this bug, don't we.
After logging out of AO, and then gathering up the desire to play once again, it is getting tougher all the time, the problem usually disappears for another couple of hours.
