My only evidence is that I started playing EQ, in Qeynos, in the fall 2000, couple months before Velious hit, and I don't think I've seen the "gnoll high shaman" (or any high level BB mob) patrolling the zone in before. I don't think ANYTHING should patrol the zone in area close enough to aggro players who just zoned in. At level 1 you should be safe at the zone in if you don't move / aren't trained.
That ground floor patrolling spawn which is/can be "the gnoll high shaman", shouldn't be there at all, in shaman form or otherwise. However, "the gnoll high shaman" should be a rare (I think) spawn somewhere on the bottom floor, probably the room with a bunch of elites in it (close to the commander room). Maybe it already is.
The ground floor patrolling spawn appeared later, probably past P99 timeline, and became a non-KoS big rat (at least as common spawn) at this point, or maybe some point later.
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