Items randomly unequipping/equipping

Annalyse - Heavens Tear · May 2013

I've been having a problem for quite some time now with items randomly equipping or unequipping themselves. It seems to have a higher rate of occurrence after leaving an instance but has happened at other times. For example, I'll leave BH and my hat will appear in my inventory. Or I'll go to NPC things after BH and notice that my shirt has switched out with a junk NPC shirt that I picked up as a drop. I know it isn't just me experiencing this since I talked to at least one other person with this problem, but at the same time it does not seem widespread so I don't know what is causing it.

But yesterday a pair of wings from a Dreamchaser pack I'd opened randomly switched themselves out with my Spectral Haze, and I then NPCed the Spectrals with the other junk thinking they were the Dreamchaser wings. So I'm getting pretty irate about this bug.

FieryBlade - Harshlands · May 2013

i can confirm this
a couple days ago my tome got unequipped on my veno
and now guess whose mount isn't as loyal as b4b:surrender

Nenor - Dreamweaver · May 2013

I had this happen along time ago with my first lunar cape i farmed. Wasn't hard to replace, I just bought a LGWT instead of farming it again, but yea, its annoying when it happens.
I just make it a point to look at all the gear i have on now before npcing anything and if somethings unsharded or unrefined i look through all the junk in my bag.
I've had people tell me 'oh its because you clicked an item by mistake and it swapped them out', .. but that seems rather impossible to me when i don't open my bag at all until i get to the npc to sell the dqs/junk drops.

Nymphali - Dreamweaver · May 2013

This always happens when im moving the camera around with right mouse button and press B at the same while. Then I accidentally unequip a cape, belt or ring >.>

PS: I always check twice what im NPCing before clicking 'OKAY IDGAF FTS'

Annalyse - Heavens Tear · May 2013

I usually do check carefully as well. In this case however, I knew the pack had given me a flyer, and since they reuse the same icons for everything these days I didn't think to check. I know that was my own fault (though I really wish they could make different icons for new items.... or hell, at least just give them a different color. Can't tell you how many times I have almost NPCed TT mats thinking they were DQs).

Fissile - Archosaur · May 2013

This definitely does happen but I have never been able to reproduce it other than the method stated above (press B while holding the right mouse button - if there is an item underneath the position of the cursor when your bag appears, it gets used/equipped), but I am certain it has happened to me before without me opening my inventory.

Deadalus - Harshlands · May 2013

Never experienced that.

Badonkajonck - Archosaur · May 2013

I can confirm this. Lower levels I use to accidently npc my gear.

But even now my rings comes off at times.

Zanryu - Dreamweaver · May 2013

Yup.

genotypist · May 2013

Hi all,
can anyone get me reproduceable steps for this?
I tried moving my camera ten times till sunday while pressing the B button repeatedly with no results.

skaitavia · May 2013

@geno Keep your inventory open, and whenever you move the camera around, make it so that when you let go of your right mouse button, it would be over a piece of equipment in your inventory. Sometimes it would unequip that item, even though you're trying to move the camera.

Mayfly - Dreamweaver · May 2013

1) Open inventory
2) Right click and hold while over an equipped/equipable item.

Annalyse - Heavens Tear · May 2013

I know it can happen when you are swinging the camera holding right click, and happen to press B to look in your inventory at the same time. There is a chance the cursor could happen to hit one of your items and thereby unequip it. It really *shouldn't* do this but I can see why.

That isn't my problem though. I can just teleport out of a BH, run to someone to sell and repair, and when I open the sell window I see that my hat or ring or whatever is in my inventory. Never when this has happened have I opened the window to be able to unequip it until I opened the sell window. It mysteriously unequips itself. In the same way I have had items from my inventory mysteriously equip themselves (often times replacing something else and thus moving that item to my inventory).

I can't help you try to reproduce this because it seems entirely random. I notice it more frequently after having left an instance but at the same time it doesn't happen every time (maybe like 4-5 times a week).

Nymphali - Dreamweaver · June 2013

Skaitavia wrote: »

@geno Keep your inventory open, and whenever you move the camera around, make it so that when you let go of your right mouse button, it would be over a piece of equipment in your inventory. Sometimes it would unequip that item, even though you're trying to move the camera.

Open your inventory.
Right click and hold to rotate camera.
Rotate the camera moving your mouse towards the item. (cursor will vanish, but pretend it's there and aim at your inventory);
Release your RMB.

Try that like 3 times and you'll unotice that the cursor moves over the screen while dragging and if its over an item slot when you release the RMB, you'll use/equip/unequip it.

PS: May look a lil' hard to reproduce this intentionally but I ensure this pretty often to happen by accident.

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