Now that sounds classic!

-Mcoy

I played a couple of necromancers very early in my eq career. Not to particularly high level, but I did use pets. I remember reading about pet guard here in the kunark manual, but to my disappointment it didn't seem to do anything differently to /pet stand here ... I was hoping it would crump passing pathers.

Perhaps the command didn't kick in until higher levels, or the pet had a tiny aggro radius at low levels. To me it felt like either a command that had never worked, or a mechanic which had been removed before kunark dropped in UK.

Pet guard here having it attack mobs was changed either in beta or soon after release. It wasn't in the game very long.

Strange how this info has been on the forum for a decade and still hasn't been changed.

Multiple non-classic mechanics have resulted in the Bone Walking mechanic becoming a thing on p99. Pets are supposed to get aggro regardless of the caster being FD, and on top of that they are supposed to die after 2 minutes of being FD.