The (remaining) penalties were changed to non-shared at the same time as the class penalties were removed in early Velious. That's why Ogres, Trolls, and Iksars (and barbarians to a smaller extent) level more slowly than other races even today on P99.
The non-shared penalties on P99 at launch were purely a glitched implementation. That being said early in original EQ's beta it was that way too. 989/Verant changed it before launch because they noticed groupmates couldn't keep up with each other.
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