Shaman Pets and Weapons

[Barm McLir]

I remember on live that shaman pets would dual wield if you gave them weapons. For example, you could hand Jobaber a rusty dagger and scimitar and you'd see combat messages where he was piercing and slashing. I used to fill a bag with Forging Hammers (1sp from a vendor) to boost his dps.

Naturally, the question is *when* did this work. I had a favorite vendor in Plane of Knowledge but that was during Luclin.

A great resource would have been the original Shaman's Crucible but it crashed and, sadly, there is very little of it recoverable from the Wayback Machine;

https://web.archive.org/web/20010601...ms.com/shaman/


Here's an Allakhazam post from 2003 where a shaman mentions trying to use a halas quest to replace carrying pet weapons:

Was bored tonight so I took the 2 minutes to do this quest, thinking it would be a good way to get cheap pet weapons. They're not lore, so I summoned two of them and went out to the tundra to find a mammoth. Summoned pet, gave him both hammers, sent pet in and he's just biting and double attacking as normal, not bashing and duel wielding like he would with two fine steel hammers for example.

So for anyone thinking they could run this real quick just so they wouldn't have to carry around a bunch of fine steel or polished steel ulaks or something to get the pet to quad, I'll save you the time. Although they are NO DROP, you can still give them to the pet, he just won't use them.

To be fair, there's an earlier comment from 2000 claiming shaman pets have never been able to equip weapons.

Anyone else remember this?