Poison Creeper

[Crystalion]

with an above average rabies attack, it takes 3 seconds to kill a hell zombie garden resident + rabies infects others in contact and also kills them in 3 secs.
ok a duration of 3 secs is very, very subjective, but this should't be so bad :)

a prowling dead in the hell ZG, afaik, has between 5k and 8k HPs, roughly, players 1.

At 90% poison resist you'd need to deliver 50k to 80k of damage.

slvl 20 PC as a given, and allowing for slvl 24 Rabies (which most players should be able to attain by Hell ZG I would hope) I still fail to see where 3 seconds is anywhere close (e.g. the full damage of the Rabies should not be delivered in less than 10+ seconds, iirc).

So if your personal experience confirms your ~3 second estimate, I think this deserves a closer look (Perhaps the actual outer garden monsters there don't have 90% resist, etc., in which case I picked a bad example, eh?).