Quote Originally Posted by Torg View Post
it never did. maybe in pre-alpha, as i wasnt playing NC back then. bonus: now we have evidence you were playing under influence.
It totally did, @ L10 or so iirc. Not Pre-alpha at all, though we did call the release "Betail" back then. Still LE's fell out at a given level and could not be put back in, and this was intended behavior.

LE's were not intended to be lifetime 'plants in the original design of this game, they were changed in 2.x to allow for the playstyles available in games like WoW and EQ and similar that had become popular in the time between NC1 and NC2x, which was originally just supposed to be an update to NC1, ex-pack style.