Miscellaneous: Succulents no longer "social" - classic?

[t0lkien]

I know there were changes in aggro sharing amongst mobs, but as things are now Succulents in The Overthere no longer act "socially". If I aggro a Succulent by damaging it, and drag it past another Succulent, the second mob does nothing when it should share the aggro and come after me. The changes in the patch were:

• Kanras: Added the distinction between direct and indirect hate.
• Kanras: Mobs with indirect hate (obtained by another mob yelling for help) on a target cannot yell for help to transfer hate for their target to another NPC.

Was this the intention of the changes?

UPDATE: I did some more research and found this from 2001:

OVERTHERE

"Went from 37 to 41 in the Overthere quadkiting. First I did the succulents like everyone said but they will stop after they get so low and not all your lightnings hit for full damage so you need to go back and clean up the stragglers. I then discovered Rhinos and Tigresses don't stop. They pursue you until dead. MUCH BETTER to quad these. Although only do rhinos or tigresses as they move at different speeds. I always found more rhinos avaiablable so stuck to those. Melees avoid them because they hit very hard and never back off. These took almost 4 bubbles of mana at 40 with 180 wisdom. Loot sucked so I couldn't always afford clarity."

-Gaennen

This suggests the Succulents may not have been "social" on live in classic, and raises another issue as right now they do not "stop" and wander off at low HP if there are other Succulents in your swarm, as this post suggests.