Game Mechanics: Until January 2000 era, 39+ pets regenerated much faster

[Dolalin]

Found a corroboration via a Brad post on the same day, via a Taiwanese site that I had open for other reasons:

2000/01/31 Monday

On the official forum, EQ producer Brad McQuaid provided an update on the Necromancer’s pet survey:

Ok, the following is the result of our investigation of the Necromancer's changes:

• As mentioned in the update file message, weapon speed no longer helps pets when holding swords in both hands.
• It is not our intention to change the recovery speed of pets. If this is true, we will fix it as soon as possible. If anyone has it, we need more data to prove that this is true. We have not seen any evidence that this is true.
• After casting the spell, the pet attacking itself is a confirmed bug, which will be corrected in the next update file.

Although this has been said many times, I repeat it again:

We must take the server offline and perform an emergency update because of a bug that caused the server to crash. To fix the bug, we need to transfer the test server code, including untested changes.

This does not happen very often, but there is a downside to performing emergency updates. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

-Brad

https://web.archive.org/web/20010508...ie_200001.html

This was just an unintended change that they quickly fixed.