yea i have to admit that is very lame. i have 6 bags and 2 invetory slots without bags (for easy switching weapons/shield) on my hot keys i have 1 for primary, 1 for secondary, and 1 for an empty slot in my inventory and 1 for my 2h weapon in my inventory. i forage something, food goes into my empty slot, becomes my primary, then i switch weapons i want to practice 2h slashing so i take my shield off of secondry, switch it with the 2hander, put the 2hander in my primary, now i have my 1hander on my cursor, drop it on the inveotry slot that has my new foraged food, and then i instantly lose that food. thanks to this rediculous change i am constantly running out of food. im an iksar and im always out of food and water... that is not right. and theres no way i could possibly be trying to exploit stat food either... i dont have any.
i know i could move my food bag to the top slot but ever since my first character in eq on the real servers i have always kept my food bag at the very end of my invetory and even if i could train myself to keep my food in the front... if you have 1 piece of food in your top slot and you pick it up, that means theres a new primary food so that 1 piece of food you picked up just disappears. this is probably the worst nerf to foraging ever because there are so many different kinds of food you can forage and especially for iksars that cant get above 50 you fail a lot so you only get 1 or 2 of each food tops so if you try to move them, switch them, anything, they simply disappear. let me walk you through this scenario...
inventory slot 1 is a backpack. first slot in the backpack i have a stack of rations. then i forage some food. i get vegetables. they fall into the 2nd slot of my backpack. i forage some more, get water, vegetables, rabbit, squirrel, grapes, roots, fruit, and whatever else there is. but also a lot of the forage attempts fail because my skill is only 50 and cannot get high because i am an iksar shadow knight. so my food bag ends up with a couple rations left in the first slot, 1 vegetables in the 2nd slot, 2 rabbit in the 3rd slot, 1 squirrel in the 4th slot... eventually i eat all my rations. new primary food is vegetables (which i only have 1 of) now unless i eat the vegetable, the ONLY way i can keep my vegetables is if i put a non-food item in the 1st slot. if i don't, then trying to move the vegetables will put it on my cursor, new food will become primary so vegetables will be deleted. if i forage a new type of food i dont have it will go in the 1st slot, new primary food, vegetables will be deleted. the only way to prevent is is to constantly rearrange non food items i have in my inventory. but guess what? after i go sell my loot im not going to have enough stuff to fill in the slots and i cant move the food around either without destroying a different kind of food. its SOOOOO annoying.
