In regards to shaman pet weapons.
I was able to find some hearty discussions on how to increase your shaman pets dps with dual wield weapons from 2003.
you can use this as a starting point
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/c...=1070418683609
to track back to a forum discussion that no longer exists... however if you use the internet archive way back machine deal
you can turn
http://forums.interealms.com/shaman/...threadid=16724
into something readable... there are further links on there as well but i'd imagine they no longer exist either so make good use of the internet archive deal at
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
but either way it does appear shaman pets should be able to use weapons in classic (or at least sometime in 2003 I'd imagine they would have posted something in the patch notes if they nerfed it back then)... but if its overpowered or not i leave to the discretion of the dev's here.