OK I don't have any actual (current) LIVE access but I am prety sure all npc warriors (most of npcs on LIVE are warriors) could dual wield from lev 15 (or whenever warriors get their DW skill)
A research into older days "npc secrets" postings could help in this regard.
BTW another thing is, I read here
"//can only dual weild without a weapon if your a monk"
seems wrong...
Npc should ALWAYS DW even wihout the weapons (hey players can) - think about it that 99% of of all npc spawn wihout a weapon of any kind (specialy non humanoid types , like animals) - if none of them could DW - this would cut their DPS in half at higher levels. Now I may not remember my noob days (I was too busy trying to survive rather than count how many times npc hits), but from my days camping in BoT I remember very well those 850+ quads coming from Van Krigers, complited with Kick and a Bash. And they almost never wield any weapon at all, and were not monks.
On top of that, I just remembered the Needlites in Echo Caverns. The buggers were 22-26 and absolutly 100% QUADED
Of course if you want a SOLID prove, we have to bug someone with LIVE access to go and test this. But I am 99.99% sure that no way an NPC warrior could not DW when a player allready could. Just didn't work this way on LIVE =)
Not to mention, again, as I said before, a huge disbalance which exists between warriors/rogues who only fight at HALF dps, while paladins/sk who don't get the skill, stil getting steady rise of their combat potential via spells
More on pets- I doubt very much pets use formula much diffirent from actual npcs, and as I said, both necro and mage pets could DW from pet level 22+
And I very sure BST pets can too, it just harder to prove without parsing since you don't actualy see them swinging/wielding.
I am prety sure Trev has LIVE access (and maybe Cavedude) could verify this for us for all instances.
As a contingency plan, if you accept this, I propose to go with a "DW NPC Rule" which automaticly allows all npc of proper class and level to DW without weapons as allowed per actual class skill table in DB. Then each admin can decide how they would want this.
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