Feb 2019 https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/game-update-notes-february-20-2019.254794/
Well, if Halflings lost their sacred exp bonus, they should at least get a proper graphic for their feet when wearing leather or chain.
They didn't take 5% of their total experience off the top, so consider yourself lucky. Halflings only had a bonus due to a MISTAKE that they never fixed. Humans were supposed to get the 5% bonus.
Fighting halflings is one of the best feelings in the world. Only seeing your lawn covered in Gnome heads on pikes beats it for satisfaction.
It was to be their only racial bonus - instead they got nothing. Halflings already had Infravision, Sneak (50 cap), Hide (50 cap), +5 Poison/Disease Resist before they got stole the 5% XP bonus Thieving hobbitses!
Originally all the races were to get some sort of bonuses and penalties with Halflings accidentally getting the Human 5% XP bonus. It'd have been a lot funnier if something like Gnomes getting the frontal melee stun immunity had happened instead.
I never would have made it out of SFG and into QH if some kind stranger hadn't seen me bumping into tunnel walls for an hour and given me a fire beetle eye.