I've not run across a lootable item that had an aug on it already.

Edit: Just caught exactly what you said, if the lore item you have has an aug then of course you wouldn't be able to switch that way.

If you kill something & do not want what is left but do not want someone else to get it either, just pick up the item/s & destroy it/them. You can do this with no-drop & no-trade items and duplicate lore items, just destroy the lore item you have on hand & pick up the new one.

junkyard dog

If you see the guy who killed him walk away could you assume that he/she was finished with it?

For myself I am exceedingly grateful that he was willing to get it all straightened out in the wee hours of the morning rather than waiting for daylight.

My knowledge of the EQ code is minimal but not all datastrings are easy to do that with.

Erp?

It's UP!!

YEAAAAA!!

Thankee muchly Hunter!

Especially for the O-Dark working!

I had a PAL that as soon as I hit 51 switched all exp to AA so as to not go over the lvl 60 limit of Dulak so I could get the missing pieces of my armor. It took me 3 hours running around checking bodies left over & camping in the seafront bar just to find all the pieces & earned 25 AA doing it. When I found gear I could not use on the head chef I shouted out to let everybody know it was available. If that armor was avail for sale I could have been doing a little exploring instead.

Oh damn, that'll smart. 

How long do you think it will be?

So basically someone can leave a mass of bodies clogging an area & you have to ignore them & try to work around them. I've just started there & going through the castle & shipyard quests I kept running across these massive piles of bodies & when I got a kill at times the body fell into a pile of others left behind by someone else. By strict reading of the rules if I can't determine which one is mine I could be nailed for looting a body of a mob killed by someone who just left it to rot? Most of them had something I could not use & I basically used the destroy function to get rid of it so as to clean up the area to make it usable.

Those bodies cannot be looted by any but the individual/group that killed it in the first place for a set period of time. If they walk away from it, it would seem to me that they were not interested in what that mob was carrying. If this set period of time is not long enough, I would think it a simple matter to extend the locked time a bit.