Yesterdays patch may have fixed an outstanding bug. For the past few months, I could sneak up behind Rochussen (Earth Ele in the Vale) and beat on him with a puncturing rapier until he died of con damage - without ever getting agro. That was because my rogue did not have sufficient str to get past his DR and do 0 damage.

However, after last night it would seem that the old Roch doesn't like getting his con drained and he turned to start beating on me when I got in my first critical hit. It was suprising but welcome as it was always non-sensical that I could take him down without him noticing. However, it did take the con damage to get his attention as the 0 damage regular hits left him unaware (as also confirmed by my 0 damage hits with a banishing xbow on Utheseen).

While this particular scenario is rather uncommon and won't affect most questing parties I was wondering if anyone else has noticed anything that would help us understand the extent of this change? For example, Can CON damage outstrip regular HP damage in the agro assignment? Do other stat damagers get agro as well? Have spells been affected?

From the devs, I would be interested to know if there are plans for 0 damage attacks to generate agro? Will misses generate agro?
Will spells that get stopped by SR or are saved against (resulting in no effects being applied) cause agro?

I would also like to give a thumbs up to the devs for making this improvement to the monster AI.