It's true that if arrows are on the floor they're fair game. Personally, I'll leave all arrows until the monster they're fighting is dead and they have a chance to retrieve their arrows. After that, if they're addy or over, I might take them. If the ranger still complains, I argue the case and return the arrows for the sake of good feeling. To go pouncing on the arrows the moment they appear, to me, is the act of a petty opportunist. It's not that the guy's just died and left a ranger set and an archer ring; I would join the scramble myself in that case. But arrows are a little petty, huh? I regularly train with rune arrows, and if you've ranged at all for any length of time, you know that occasionally you get a series of blue splats and you're thinking "Okay. I have the best range gear, range pots, rune arrows. Why do I bother?". Then you right-click that the spot where your arrows have landed and it says: Take: Rune arrows Take: Rune arrows and you know that some of them are now visible. So someone comes and nabs them. Okay, a few arrows, so what? I agree with the point that if your arrows become exposed, then you're fighting something that is either challenging to say the least, or otherwise too difficult an adversary for you. This is what you should expect. But a message to you arrow-takers, be considerate?