I also play / played on a laptop and I've occasionally had something along those lines happen. It is usually either a result of being in FD and not knowing it (like the raid dummies in guild hall) or hitting the right shift key in conjunction with another key (like holding shift and pressing up to s...
I had assumed that if it was a quested thing the "(0) Tasks involve this item." would reflect that. But you know what they say about assuming... you're usually wrong because you can't see the code
So I was nosing around the new webtools and I noticed something odd... http://www.thehiddenforest.org/webtools/items.php?id=120158 - Spell: Faithful Blessing Rk1 has no connections (not dropped / sold) http://www.thehiddenforest.org/webtools/items.php?id=120160 - Spell: Faithful Blessing Rk 3 has no...
I believe salvage is broken on emu (based on an old post in the AA forum). As for the 50% thing - I 'think' it works (can't find one way or another in tradeskill or AA forums). Even at 50% chance of success you could fail it 80 times out of 100, statistics and all (in a fair universe every other one...
IDK, I remember grinding away at leveling my JC for a long time, got it into the high 200s (250+, but not 300) and finally deciding to just hammer away at combines until it worked - but I could very well have asked for help with that combine too - it has been a while.
With the tradeskill AAs it is a little easier (50% chance). I can't remember for sure... but I think I did it with a skill of 250 or so after three tries. The Alchemy portion I did hire someone for and even then it took a couple tries. It is frustrating (especially since I took the solo route), but ...
I wandered back to the task after a bit of a break. When it loaded the instance (the Grey) it took a bit longer than I remember to do so. After about three minutes inside the instance my latency went from 200 to 1400. There were a few moments where it looked like I was going to disconnect - but it'd...