That person was found to be incorrect later in the thread. You can't point at 1 post as "proof" if it contradicts dozens surrounding it.
Saying that since it was posted in 2002 it can't be applicable is silly. Do you really think that Verant just randomly went and upgraded shamans by doing something silly like making their pets be able to equip weapons when they couldn't before? No. Not only does that make no sense, they had said that they felt that shamans were too powerful based on some of the mobs they were soloing in Velious. That's why this kind of information was held secret, and you can see people requesting that that thread get deleted since people were afraid that this would be nerfed now that it was posted on a public forum (the Shaman's Crucible, which was a very popular website during that time). Not a single person says "oh, this was recently changed, pets couldn't wield weapons before." It just happened to be a new discovery for the people in that thread at that time. Advanced mechanics such as these weren't universal knowledge during the first few years of the game, most players were pretty clueless about most of the things we know today.
I can find a post about Fippy Darkpaw from 2009 on Allakhazam, that doesn't mean that Fippy Darkpaw was not in the game until 2009.
I've posted proof that shaman pets did indeed equip weapons, if you would like to refute this then please provide your proof that they did not equip weapons. I'm not trying to sound rude here or anything, but I don't want this report to be influenced by other peoples' guesses and speculation.
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