I figured I'd start a thread on this as MMO secrets / glitches and the like have always intrigued me.
In EQ1, you could kite the Priest of Discord with a mage pet and eventually kill him (he would one shot people back in the day). If you equipped his staff it would turn into a Fine Steel Mace when you zoned. So I could run around as a magician in leather looking armor, with a mace. It was kind of fun! I'm sure most of you already heard of that one, but it helped me discover another glitch when Kunark came out:
Back when Kunark hit, I remember seeing a level 4 Iksar in the Field of Bone starting zone with a top level mage pet at his command. He was leveling insanely fast but would not give up how he got it. Luckily I was in /anon and my mage was dressed up in leather and that same Fine Steel Mace, so I convinced the guy I was a cleric and could summon a fire pet, and would tell him how after he spilled the beans on his level 4 with the top level earth pet.
Turns out, there was a rare spider spawn in one of those underground areas. I'm not sure if a dev did it on purpose or not, but it had a proc and the SpellID was off. Instead of a poison proc it would proc an earth pet which would be under your control. Such an odd glitch. So I tested it out, and was able to level my Iksar alt to at least my 30s in that starting zone (there were high level mobs in underwater caves if I remember right).
Another glitch I found was when mage pets would bug out if you gave them +HP weapons and zoned when they were almost dead. They'd wait at zone lines and aggro anyone or anything. I parked a few Earth pets in SOL-B dungeon just to mess with people. They'd zone out with 5% health saying "Be quick, he roots!" lol... I was such a bastard in EQ sometimes.
In EQ1, you could kite the Priest of Discord with a mage pet and eventually kill him (he would one shot people back in the day). If you equipped his staff it would turn into a Fine Steel Mace when you zoned. So I could run around as a magician in leather looking armor, with a mace. It was kind of fun! I'm sure most of you already heard of that one, but it helped me discover another glitch when Kunark came out:
Back when Kunark hit, I remember seeing a level 4 Iksar in the Field of Bone starting zone with a top level mage pet at his command. He was leveling insanely fast but would not give up how he got it. Luckily I was in /anon and my mage was dressed up in leather and that same Fine Steel Mace, so I convinced the guy I was a cleric and could summon a fire pet, and would tell him how after he spilled the beans on his level 4 with the top level earth pet.
Turns out, there was a rare spider spawn in one of those underground areas. I'm not sure if a dev did it on purpose or not, but it had a proc and the SpellID was off. Instead of a poison proc it would proc an earth pet which would be under your control. Such an odd glitch. So I tested it out, and was able to level my Iksar alt to at least my 30s in that starting zone (there were high level mobs in underwater caves if I remember right).
Another glitch I found was when mage pets would bug out if you gave them +HP weapons and zoned when they were almost dead. They'd wait at zone lines and aggro anyone or anything. I parked a few Earth pets in SOL-B dungeon just to mess with people. They'd zone out with 5% health saying "Be quick, he roots!" lol... I was such a bastard in EQ sometimes.