Oh, a little history lesson for the curious.
The popular theory from beta onwards, that is everywhere if you search the newsgroup, was that pets took xp if they got the killing blow.
I wondered where this myth came from, since before ShowEQ got going there was little proof of anything either way, and this newsgroup post from August '99 says it was a line in the official players manual:
Quote:
*Everquest: The Official Players Guide*, Page 113:
"If you're playing solo with a "pet", it takes a lesser share of Experience,
but in a party, the pet only takes experience if it makes the final killing
blow."
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https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....Q/mc1K3L-jzY8J
Before about November or so there is just speculation about how pet xp works and nothing definitive. No patch notes or changes by Verant are mentioned. How it was discovered to be seems to have been the way it was all along, near as I can tell. Feel free to search on your own, the more eyes the better.