Unclickable Glowies in the Council Caves Jail Room

[mechahamham]

On the first mission of The Ouroboros Initiation, given by The Pilgrim, Mender Lazarus sends you to a Council base to collect information. There are several glowies to click on, including one that starts you collecting letters from the 'Mysterious Letter Writer'.

 

I just happened to get one that was on a map that had the 'Jail Room', and the letter writer's crate was hidden in the back corner of that room, on the bottom floor, between two of the jail cells.

 

After destroying all the doors in the room for my Doorbuster badge, I went to click on the crate to get the 'Dear <Heroname>' letter clue, but was surprised to find that something was keeping me from completing the action. At first I thought I'd nudged my mouse while doing the clickie-thing, but I found that I could repeat it fairly easily.

 

It was the 'anti-teleport' field mob that covers each jail cell interrupting me while I tried to click the crate. I tried several positions near the crate, but was reliably interrupted in all of them.

 

Eventually, I found that if I climbed onto the wall between the two jail cells, I was just out of the radius of the anti-TP field and could complete the action. A newer player, unfamiliar with the anti-TP effect, probably wouldn't have any option but to try to skip this optional clue.

 

It's surprising that I haven't run into this before, but, to be honest, I LOATHE Council Caves and avoid them whenever I can manage. In other jail rooms, like the Orenbega magical barrier room, the few glowie detail locations are well away from the cells themselves, so are not affected by this.

 

There are a couple obvious ways to fix this. The first and most obvious is to simply remove that detail location from all the maps that have council jail rooms. That seems kinda sad, reducing the map variety very slightly.

 

The second, more difficult way is to adjust the coding or data on the interrupt effect so that it can still keep players from teleporting, but doesn't interrupt attacks or clicks.

[Ridiculous Girl]

56 minutes ago, mechahamham said:

I just happened to get one that was on a map that had the 'Jail Room', and the letter writer's crate was hidden in the back corner of that room, on the bottom floor, between two of the jail cells.

there is a forum sub-thread for bad objective spawn locations. it helps too if you can take screenshots and type /whereami for map and detailed information. 🙂