I posted my thoughts about warrior aggro in another thread, but thought I would contribute this:
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We've also re-evaluated ways that players have to reduce their own hate. While spells in place to allow this are OK, the Evade skill (possessed by rogues) let them out of their damage too easily. A rogue that successfully evaded would immediately drop to a level of hate lower than someone who was in the awareness range, but hadn't done anything to really upset the creature such as damage it or heal its foe. This problem was exacerbated by the increase of the size of the hate list implemented with Velious.
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source:
http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/20010221a.html (3 months into Velious)
so apparently evade was damn near an aggro wipe until then.