Aaagh! Vast hordes of em

[Crystalion]

Second, the Zon, at least in 1.09 (and most likely 1.10) has the highest damage output of any character. This isn't my opinion, it's pretty much fact. When you can hit up to two dozen monsters at once, three times a second, you're the damage king (queen).

Damage output per second is pointless. It is not the same as Rate of Kill [RoK] which is, of course, not the same as experience or loot per second either.

Because monsters can have such high HPs and regenerate very rapidly, MS, which only achieves high rates of D/sec. because there are many monsters, might not even be killing *anything* in a given situation, where some pathetic character using some pathetic skill [by comparision to your total D/sec. that is] is making progress.

This is why Zeal/Fury, vs. weak monsters, is a delight killing multiple adjacent monsters per unit of time, and still a delight vs. tough monsters, when isolating them to get all the Fury hits on one mob.

I guess my point would be the "RoK" king/queen is a worthwhile title whereas D/sec. isn't. I rather doubt that MS wins Bowazons that title under general circumstances, despite its excellent crowd control potential.

But, to counter your claim I don't need to dwell on such details. All I need to do is consider the case where you are indeed succeeding, and monsters are dying. If it takes you more than a couple MS for things to drop dead [as opposed to, say, one MS and bang! everything dies] then the very corpses you are so helpfully generating allow the CE Necro to vastly exceed your D/sec. number.

[I didn't see the word "solo" in your post, though you may have felt that you implied it]