Possible unequip cooldown bug (in General)

After talking to bartjan and Shade, I think I might have found a bug.

I unequip a BoTh and swap seeker arrows for normal arrows on minion Reegor on character Bubo. I then transfer the BoTh to character Smith. I forge on the BoTh (attempting to keep it under five minutes, but I'm refering to the few times it goes over 5 minutes) and then transfer the BoTh back to Bubo. I then re-equip the BoTh and swap the seekers back in to Reegor.

While I try to keep these transfers to under 5 minutes, there have been a couple of times that I go over 5 minutes. Usually these periods are still under 10 minutes. Despite going over 5 minutes, I still am able to re-equip these items to Reegor. Furthermore, today I forgot the Seekers when I re-equipped the BoTh. I did not catch it until about an hour later, and was able to re-equip the Seeker Arrows with no problems.

I think that cooldown time is only for one character. But I'm not sure about this, maybe transfer make it different.

I've never received any kind of cooldown message and have always been allowed to unequip and re-equip my gear, even when I was violating the five minute rule. Has anyone out there been prevented from re-equpping?

Well the arrows (and all other ammo) are easy to explain if you use even one arrow then cb assigns the item a new number there for it is treated as a new item (same is true if you merge)

Now as far as the Bth goes i don't know what to tell you. I know that Sunday evening I loaned out my DB for 6hours to be forged and had no problem re-equiping them when they cam e back (and it was still inside the 8hr time frame) Other than the DB i have always stayed under the 5 min span to re-equip.

The seeker arrows were unequipped and sat in the character Bubo's inventory during the entire period. They were not used, nor were they merged with any other arrows.

Never receive any cooldown restrictions whether it's over 5 min or before 8 hrs.

just to be sure, I just tested with steel-shod boots in one of Morbo's minions. about 14 minutes unequipped, re-equpped no problem.

Although maybe we should all just keep our mouths shut.....

Hehe, Jon probably found it was too much of a load on the server (or just too difficult) to implement the timer for every item, so he simply TOLD us that there was a 5 minute limit. Worked pretty good too: it's taken us this long to figure out!