Just wondering if anyone had tried this. If you use HoL and drop it and pick it up? Does it reset the timer? What about if someone else gets it and immediately gives it to you again? Seems like something like this would work with some items. But i agree with the strategy of letting people go to buy scrolls and maybe even flag locks. Just... nobody else seems to do it so...
Also Protecept did i play you before? cuz i deffinately remember a battle where the enemy threw down his HoL and i stole it 
Don't think he realised quite what he had done there. lol.