NPC Spawn Issue: Noclin's Pet in Paineel should be level 4

[Dolalin]

Currently it is level 1, based on I assume the geocities.com/ficticiousname9 dumps, where he is indeed listed as level 1.

However every other source has him at level 4.

Allakhazam page (multiple in-era posts about him being level 4):

https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=3563
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/...id=3563#m11491
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/...00342188093016

Everlore page (has him listed as 4):

https://web.archive.org/web/20010515...how&BID=186730

Everlore quest page for this quest, in the quest description, it describes the guy getting 'whooped' by the pet on Feb 21st 2000 which I would hazard to guess means he was higher than level 1:

https://web.archive.org/web/20011224...de=35&id=84050

Last page also has some commentary that I'm going to take to mean he was higher than level 1 ("people say you need to be 5 to do this quest, but I did it at 4 with my pet"):

https://web.archive.org/web/20020530...tby=2#Comments

I'm going to hazard a guess that the dumps were either done very soon after Paineel release and he was bugged, then fixed by Feb 20th-ish, or else he was always level 4 and it was just a data error.

[Dolalin]

Another one, play guide on castersrealm dated March 1st 2000:

Paineel has a little garden that is great for low levels. Almost anything is in range except noclin his pet and the guards. IF you see noclins pet and you cant take it run. IF you can kill it attack i have gotton 5pp off of him and some bone chips.

Strategy Submitted on: Wednesday, March 01, 2000

http://web.archive.org/web/200103300...EW.ASP?ID=1334

EQNecros has him at level 4, capture is April 8th, 2000:

The pet cons as 4th level and will loot a bone. Take this back Noclin and you'll receive some XP, and Noclin's Femur - a no drop, Erudite necromancer only, 1h blunt weapon that gives +10 mana with the effect "Sicken." Faction: Heretics better; DeepwaterKnights, Gatecallers, Crimson Hand worse

Skyshade - I spoke to a few newbies and it seems a level 4 Necromancer can kill Noclin's pet

http://web.archive.org/web/200004081...ts/paineel.htm

[Dolalin]

Ah I found a perfect one. Feb 18th 2000, you have to turn off Javascript to avoid the interstitial ad javascript, but it's very explicit:

--Submited by: Gravedirt On: 02/18/2000 9:32:04 AM

Found a good quest already. Near the newbie hunting grounds is an NPC named Noclin Sath(?) who tells you about his pet who broke free and is rampaging through the training grounds. If you bring him proof of it's demise, he'll reward you. Inside the newbie grounds there is a spawn point where about 8 decaying skels pop at once. Sometimes, one of them is a level 4 aggro named skeleton called Noclin's pet. Killing him gives you a no drop Femur. Turning this in to Noclin gets you the following:

http://web.archive.org/web/200005101...sp?MapID=83422

[nilbog]

Fixed, pending update