equipping a weapon from the ground lol

[Swunk]

MINI UPDATE Jan 5 1999 9:02AM

A small mini publish went into effect that will change the following things:
If putting on a piece of platemail armor would move your stamina below 0, you will not be allowed to wear it.
Spells from an Ancient Wyrm should no longer permanently affect your stats.
Only items that you first pick up can be equipped.
Slimes will no longer split when attacked.
This should be effective after the servers go down and come back up in today's daily maintenence.

not that it really adds anything to the game.. but if that means what I think it does then we should not be able to grab a weapon from the ground and equip it

[Jack]

I'd wager that the act of dragging the item includes "picking it up" and that this was possibly something to do with the "equip weapon" macro in the client or UOA. Regardless, I don't think this is something we'll implement as it has no actual benefit in gameplay and would just serve as an annoyance.