can't click in to open sea battle

[Erithtotl]

This got us wiped (along with a really bad spawn) in a battle on Kidd last night. I know it's happened to me and most other players at least once in the past.

That is, you are trying to enter an Open Sea battle with the rest of your group, only clicking/hitting the spacebar/whatever doens't seem to work. Our group of 6 was getting in to a fight last night, and for most of us it took 20 seconds of clicking (despite sitting on top of the circle) to get in, some even longer, and our last member couldn't get in at all despite having 40+ seconds of time to try and enter, the game just wouldn't acknowledge his entry requests and the battle closed.

Anyone know if 1) there is a foolproof workaround, and 2) this is being fixed in the patch?