I know a lot of people don't trust it, but here's what I do. I leave my shield
(or second weapon) on my cursor. If you die or get disconnected the item just
goes back into your inventory so it is safe.

Taelin

> I was wondering, is there any trick to keeping those inventory slots open
> (i.e. free of random loot) without manually having to put every item into
> a bag? I bought a mandolin and horn to fill 2 more slots, but there's
> still 1 empty slot (which needs to stay empty, so when I swap out 1
> instrument, there's room for a shield + weapon). Anytime I look anything
> it gets automatically dropped into that slot, which is very annoying when
> trying to switch weapons later.
>
> Hopefully there's some good tips out there.
>
> Thanks, =)
>
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> Jesse <j@...>