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So, Ive been playing zOMG or a few days now and I am finding things that are super annoying.

1) I cant seem to find a way to use my rings without moving them around. There have been multiple instances where my life depended on using my rings fully and efficiently, but I wasted time getting the rings stuck to my mouse instead of using them. Therefore, boss battles have been lost. which really sucks when you have to fight all sorts of things before hand and end up using my boosters in a pinch, which I have to PAY for with actual money, not gaia gold! I know of the spacebar and "q" key short cuts, which are helpful, but I swear I heard rumor that you can use the keyboard for the rings too. And I am looking everywhere for info on it, and cant find it. Not even someone complaining about that not being a feature. So I posted something in hopes that someone sees it and sends something back to tell me about it.

2) Getting booted off the server for either internet failure, or the server freezing. Again, causes loss of boss battles and death. Super gay.

3) People that want to sit around and chat. Im pretty sure there are private message options, as well as a way to hide your convo, like crewing each other and then changing your talk options to crew. I dont care what Mimi_suck_U_off_0423 had for breakfast this morning. Get your useless talk bubble out of my way! I try to target an enemy or walk off the screen, but my cursor cant click on what I need it to because youre in my way and Im targeting you instead.

4) Gustov in Basken Lake in particular. You cant talk to him without getting attacked! I tried to have conversations that included actually reading what he was saying multiple times, but would get attacked by those stupid wolves every time. Which meant that if I wanted to talk, I was going to die in the process. I ended up having to hurry up and click through the convo, fend of the wolves, then walk somewhere else and read back through what I just did. Again, super gay. Especially when Mimi_suck_U_off_0423 is chatting away and knocking my convo with Gustov back up the screen.

I understand this is a massive MMO, and I am in awe of how it works. I have great reverence for someone who can make things like this function right. And the website itself is amazing and so well put together that I have to stop sometimes and just bow in amazement. But, isnt there an easier way to target things youre looking for in the forums? the search bar hardly ever brings up answers.
I type in something as simple as keyboard shortcuts and I get results for "the epilepsy gang". I kid you not. do i need to look up things by name?

another thing. when im looking for what I need to make a recipe, how do i know where to get the ingredients? i need 1 metal spike, but what in the world carries it? or i need 6 twine pieces, or whatever. I dont know where to begin. and ive gotten into at least 6 different areas, not including the boss areas which house their own monsters. Do i just go through each area and hope that I find what I need? it takes 20+ monsters of the same kind to get something anyway, or something equally ridiculous like that. is there a guide somewhere that tells you what monsters drop what ingredients? and how do i find it? forums search for ingredients guide brought up results for alcohol abuse and russian private chats and role plays! NOT HELPFUL!