pwned item pick up, help

I really need to know what you pick up first when you pick up your corpse after youve been pwned. I already got popped with my barb becuase it would always try to pick up my sword first and i didnt have enough str to use it w/o my other items. I am currently making a sorc and dont want to waste str points making sure i have enough str w/o items to wield my ss, i dont want to get popped again. If you have any information please post.