Pets initially were nerfed to shit after launch on live. If you went back in time and played EQ on the first day of launch you'd summon a mage/necro pet that hit like a truck and tanked better than player tanks. Then as the months progressed and the World Trade Center was about to get blown up, you'd log on via dialup and seethe in rage as Verant once again nerfed some mechanic of your pet. They got nerfed hard and were practically left gimpy from Kunark onwards. I believe that's the pet we get here, the kunark-era pet coding.
Pet Taunt currently on this server right now is not at all classic and never existed like this on live. Pets were always very good at taunting, very good at snap aggro (that's why the /pet taunt command exists).
Sony ended up buffing casters considerably during one of the later expansions, I want to say around the time Freeport got revamped. That included pets. And yeah, it makes progression servers a Mage-boxing shitstorm.
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