after a little research this might actually be classic.
per EQTC:
example 1: notice what it shows as being returned
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now example 2: This is the cloak. what is missing?
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This could very well be a long running bug that was never corrected on live and came to us in the EQEMU source code. That or the devs have more attention to detail than i give them credit for. its the only example i could find that says nothing about the hammer being returned.