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Then Tanris' 10.4k dumb outlier for Occultist.
There's no way Serp comes close to Monk in raid kills. Maybe in the recent meta, but since the beginning of Achaea til now? Monk is king.
Artemis says, "You are so high maintenance, Tharvis, gosh."
Tecton says, "It's still your fault, Tharvis."
and echoing what @Jhui said, Serp with Lupine will make your raid kills shoot through the roof. 85% of my total kills are from being a lazy serpent.
On the flip-side of the coin, when I was temporarily priest, my total deaths became higher than my total kills for a short time, until I went back to Serp.
Mage could probably come really close to Serp, if you made a habit of holololcausting rooms of people, or regularly had a good cata team.
If we're talking OVERALL KILLS FROM THE BEGINNING OF ACHAEA like @Mizik, then either Monk or Occie, since area-wide 3k dmg chokes used to be a thing, and people like Tanris/Poergh tipping the scale for Occies.
Which wouldn't be a bad offensive strategy to nerf, but throwing web bombs at the ground+puppet bind can also be defensive, so you'd be sorta nerfing Jesters in the process.
If you wanted to delete buckawns and leave Jesters alone, you could make Jesters avoid their own dropped/thrown web bombs, but then that would essentially give every Jester buckawns without giving them buckawns.
Or you could delete web tattoos AND web bombs, but lol.
Just buy the arte dude.
Serpents are next, even a regular darkbow is pretty good. With buckawns, lupines, veil, earrings no one bothers targeting them unless you have good hinder. So they get all the snipe kills while everyone else does all the heavy lifting melee wise.
In most cases, dex only affects your chance of dodging, and nothing else. It has a lot of additional uses for serpents (it influences pickpocket success chance and the speed/balance of various attacks), but for everyone else the only thing it does is increase your chance to avoid attacks that can be dodged. And since there's no dodging in PvE (except against certain unknown denizens, according to Tecton), it's only useful for PvP (unless you're a serpent).
OP choke was though, but raiding happened a lot less back then.
I mean the number of naga that have 500+ kills just from stepping 1 south of gates is probably a crazy amount.
Jurixe almost has 1k kills, I am sure there are plenty of 'artie monks' from back in the day that never got 1000 kills because there just wasn't enough large scale group conflict.
Antidas has 2.8k, Mycen has 4.1k... Serpents just rack it up and rarely die so they never get discouraged to not join in on a fight. These people are all far from artied and also far from fearsome in raids, yet they rack up kills due to being alive the whole fight every time.
The number of no-name serps that do this exact same thing has been a constant since forever. It all adds up to more than all the big name monks/mages for sure.
I'M NOT BACKING DOWN FROM THIS FIGHT. SERPENTS ARE KING.
I could be totally wrong, but it feels right.
edit: dragon could be catching up to these numbers too, especially if you count the dragon + class era...RIP