It is a terrible player experience and very disheartening to come in to play and find that your weapon or amulet or whatever has been replaced by junk because you played when you were tired the night before and somehow swapped them.
Please give us a way to lock equipped items so they are protected.
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My girlfriend somehow lost her helmet this way and to this day claims Iāve āstolen itā.
Itās a funny injoke, but I can tell she is salty about it.
But the helmet wasnāt in Buyback or anywhere else, so she mustāve shattered or dropped it somewhereā¦
me too. i have dex problems so selling sometimes things get swapped on me. I tend to double check. luckly I havent sold anything i was wearing. but more then once ive swapped. Ive had to buy back sometimes too. I would appreciate a way to lock equipment im wearing.
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Welcome to the ever growing Club of the unintentionally Gear swapping Ladies and Gentlemen. Please enjoy your most of the time unexpected membership perks to the fullest.
I did it again last night. 
I noticed my shield was wrong, and fortunately it was still in the Buyback section. Isnāt locking equipped items a qol feature of all top ARPGs?
What forced me to make this thread was losing an amulet I had worked so hard on. I finally had my dream ammy and two nights later it was gone. Poof! I was gutted. Nearly in tears. The most horrible feeling you can imagine over a game. Almost quit.
Why donāt we have this seemingly simple feature?
I do agree that it is a bit too easy to equip items from your inventory. Iām not sure what the solution should be though. Maybe there could be an option to not swap equipped items without a modifier as a menu option? That way you could kind of customize your experience.
There are already a few threads about that:
I know that feeling after loosing body armor and helmet by accidentally destroying gear in the forge.
Thatās not a game issue. The problem in this case sits between the screen and the chair. Why should EHG put work into childproof/idiotproof (not aimed to offend you just using the terms to make it obvious) systems? If they do this for everything we never see new content, balancing or seasonal content.
I get it there were countrys that suprised people with hot coffee when they bought hot coffee and spilled all over themselfs and now you need labled cups because of this but I donāt think we need stuff like this in LE. Everything is rather obvious.
Not really. PoE doesnāt have it, for example. Though, on the other hand, it doesnāt let you equip via hotkey (you have to manually drag and equip) so the chance for these mistakes are lessened.
The quickest solution that would require the least time invested by EHG would be to add an option to disable equipping with right click altogether.
Another would be to allow remapping the equip to something else (including a combination of keys like the suggested alt+right click).
Nope, it doesnāt happen in PoE, GD, D3 or D4. The only games Iāve seen it in were the Borderlands games.
Iām not sure about D3 (itās been a while), but D4 has item lock in your inventory.
Upped.
I sold out a some important piece of gear in the past (but was fortunate enough to still find it in the buyback section). I am still unintendedly swapping out my gear from time to time, generally while selling out unneeded stuff (releasing the Shift key a split second too early).
So every time I go to the vendor, I feel the need to quickly check my gear before going back to the hunt, and I do find this check quite tiresome. So yes please, I would very much appreciate a gear locking system - or a change to the way one interacts with its gear ? - so I donāt have to constantly check my gear in fear of dumbly loosing important stuff.