Game Mechanics: Pets proccing mage swords on non summoned

[uygi]

Pet dual wielding here is not the same as classic, though it used to be. Prior to the nerf patch, pet dual wielding matches what I remember from Live and the info from eqsummoners- that's not really important any more though. It was nerfed on P99, apparently for balance reasons, on 4/17/11:

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[*]Kanras: Pets will no longer automatically dual wield at a certain level.

It was then largely restored on 12/18/11:

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[*]Kanras: Higher level pets Magician, Necromancer, and Shadowkinght will automatically dual wield. (Blue only)

Now it's something along the lines of 49+ mage/necro pets and 58 SK (not 100% sure if any other Sk pets do) pet will dual wield on their own.

It's worth noting that the game was patched for pet to proc Sword of Runes on anything some time in between those two. I don't recall exactly when and I didn't find it with the quick searches I did.

Nirgon, note that I went into the P99 patch history to see how and when things got the way they are. It's great! Try it.