Why not rabies for pvm?

[Everett]

Everyone is always saying that rabies isn't effective pvm especially with more than one player in the game and I was just wondering why. The damage that you could achieve seems to be pretty good and I assume would kill all non poison immune monsters.

[Verashiden]

1. It takes too long to do anything.
2. Most monsters you'd want to use Rabies on (phys Immunes) also have high poison res in Hell.
3. It WILL drop the game should more than ten monsters get infected by it. Hell, I think less than ten are needed to drop the game.

[Everett]

Why does it drop games though?

[Verashiden]

Because of Blizzard's solution to lag duping which simply drops a game after it hits a certain ping rate. This is also why you don't really want to keep a Poison Creeper out during normal PvM excursions (or heaven forbid cows).

[Everett]

Okay thank you.

[udgard]

Um, I know this topic's a bit old, but does this bug also apply to single player games?

[Verashiden]

Any game that uses BNet's servers is prone to this.