Game Mechanics: Nagafen and pets

[Dolalin]

It seems that there might have been special behaviour for summoning and pet casters.

I see two mentions of this across quite a span of time, implying Naggy would summon the pet owners rather than focus on the pets:

12/1/99

> In the end it is just class envy, Tanks are still a very valuable and
> usefull class at all lvls. I have
> yet to hear "oh sorry mr warrior, we dont need you to slag nagafen because
> we have a few
> Jobnabers and Xabartnitcs to take your spot". Sheesh.
>

Naggy is the ONE mob that can't be done without tanks. Why? Because he COULD
be done using only pets, until Verant retuned him to summon the casters
instead of focusing on the pets.

Note that no other mob, with the possible exception of Cazic, has this
ability- plane breakins are done without tanks ALL THE TIME nowadays.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....0/Kx8wcioDrB4J

11/1/01

On Thu, 01 Nov 2001 03:42:50 GMT, sa...@choenet.com.remove.this.com
(Sang K. Choe) (if that IS his real name) disgorged:
>2. No necro ever soloed Vox. Infact, NO ONE has ever soloed Vox.
>The least number I know for certain to kill Nagafen was 11 people
>pre-Kunark (yes, PRE-KUNARK).
>

I seem to recall he was done with less. Pre-Kunark. WAY pre-kunark,
before the way summoning worked against pet aggro was changed (and how
necro pets fought, for that matter). It was just a pack of necros with
an enchanter for clarity - they just kept the pets rolling in over and
over.

Again, this was very early in EQ's raiding days.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....E/KmSoZDk-JHsJ

More evidence would be nice and contributions are appreciated, whether for or against.