Wow, I feel that we are playing a different game.
1) Druid casting summon bread, they only get one bread.(Can't cast with hands full so you have to drop into an open inventory slot, then recast. Magician can summons level/2 so at level 40 they can summon 20 stacked breads for one cast.) This really sucks when macro foraging a wood elf druid.
2. Yes how annoying that SOE didn't give Noobs a big bag when they signed in. No Drops are a PITA, they never leave your hand, so you are forced to put it inventory, swapping item for hand to drop or just plain destroy the no drop clearing the hands for another forage, loot, spell cast etc...
3. If you successfully forage an item, You have to put it in inventory slot, or next Forage button push you get message:
You can't forage with your hands full. (Forage Timer not reset, you have to wait... how rude.)
4. Fishing is a great one, especially if you practice casting summon items while fishing like I did on Live. ( You can't fish if you have something in hand just like forage.. however if you Fish, then cast summon water or bread, the successful fishing ques behind the water or bread casted.)
5. Trade request while having hands full. Hrm, Trade requests have been changed alot, to stop cheating. First you have to an item in your hand, and click on Player this starts the trade request. It also automagically puts that item that was in your hand into the trade slot 1. Now if there was a que for some strange reason, ie Modulation, then it would appear in hand and not let you put it in trade window (NODROP), so you would have to destroy the rod or put it in your inventory or swap it with the next item you wanted to have in trade window. Then you click Accept, and it locks your side, and changes to the trade window on this side will make the green name go way and you will have to press Accept again.
( I do not know if you can click Accept with an item in your hand, I will have to check that rule out on Live)
6. Absolutely correct.
7. Most quests force you to "give item to quest npc". Since the quest should have involved zoning and opening doors, the hand que should be empty. Since Give is like Trade, automatically placing one item into the give slot, the only item in hand should be the quest item needed to give to NPC. (the Accept button may not work with item in hand, I will attemp this in Live)..Lets say someone casts Modulation spell during this quest to try to break it. I believe that the quest item will "Que" as the second item, scaring the hell out the person whom was doing the quest.
8. Enchanter's spell you mention are the only exception to casting with item in hand. I read that somewhere I will find it and post the url.
9. Those damn rods, they always stack on a que and for some reason people like casting this spell in PoK scaring the hell out of people getting stuff from banker. It however worked perfectly, but scared me as the ROD is always the first in the que, the item I was getting out of the bank was safe in the 2nd que slot as I was getting my Dark Ember out of bank. (sounds like a magician thief in PoK waiting for items to drop?)
10. Yes and by default (the message comes up asking if you really want to drop it on the ground, you turned this message off?)
11. NO Drop just stays on your hand, and prints that message Item can not be drop, sold, or traded, I hate those rods
12. OK
13. Yes, however with the no casting with item in hand rule being a Necro with that embalming knife sucks. (Live now has alot more of those for sale in bazaar, probably how I got one so cheap.) Never had that shovel, but same applies anything that gets put into hand, stops a caster cold :(
However, This is "OUR" game and we can change these items/rule/code to not suck so much
Knife should be right-click period and same with shovel. Forage and fishing timers shouldn't make people waste time waiting for the timer to go by because of poor inventory management, or a friend casted Rod spell.
Hope this helped