I think looking at the "best of the best" shows alot. If anything it shows that there are players out there that do a very good job racking up PKs against battle while dying very little.

It shows that not only is it possible to deal with deathblow, and for all it's randomness, it's doable in such a way that these people actually fare better against ragers then the rest of the mud. It shows it is not as significant as a power as you think.

More importantly, and I mean no offense by this, but, it sounds like you are taking the elitist-sounding stance that deathblow shouldn't be in the game because it requires no skill to be successful with. That's why I'm pointing to how the elite fare against ragers.

In fact, I found those numbers so significant that it occurred to me that if Jerry really wants to make an all-time great PK character he might be better off killing ragers than playing one.