Regarding Locked Items

the way i see it....
considering the servers has a function that erases your item. when trading\dropping\npcing the item, the server will check if its locked. if not, erase it. if do, return.

basically when dark scrolling something\using it for a quest, the server directly calls the "erase" function, regardless of if the item is locked or not.

What you say interests me.

If I understand you correctly, you're saying that during the server check, they just make a list of all the items (that need to be unlocked) in order, copy them, erase them, then return the copies to their respective owners?

If that were the case, and the server can figure out that capes only go to +5, does that mean that it's possible my cape becomes +5 and retains the same stats, or get rolled back?