hmmm... the hate i think you are talking about is how much hate a charatcter has, anything a player does to a monster draws hate. The trick is to keep hate on a "tank" type character, like a Paladin or Ninja. Whichever player has the most hate is the one that tha mob will attack. What i think you are asking about is what you may have heard about a thiefs sneak attack(LVL15) and trick attack(LVL30) abilities. Sneak attack by itself does not help put hate on the tank, it only scores a critical hit when you are behind the monster, dealing huge damage. When a thief hits level 30 Sneak attack becomes more useful because they gain the ablility Trick attack, which makes the mob "Think" if you will, that the person that the thief is standing behind dealt the blow. If i lost you heres a scenario, a warrior provokes a mob so that it looks at him, a paladin will stand behind the mob and a thief behind him, when the thief used sneak attack, it made him score a critical hit since he is behind the mob, and since he used trick attack, it made the mob think that the person in front of him dealt the blow, so the paladin will get the hate instead of the thief. I hope you can understand, its hard to explain it withough actually seeing it over and over many times lol. Hope this helps explain how a thief can dump hate onto people.