Is it worth buying the scythe? And what does adding charges to it actually do? Couldn’t find anything on the wiki about charges

The scythe may be charged to drastically increase its stats. In order to charge it, players must add at least one vial of blood and a set of 300 blood runes to the vyre well next to the bank in Ver Sinhaza. Additionally, once Sins of the Father quest is completed, there is a vyre well outside the bank in Darkmeyer.

Each vial and 300 blood runes adds 100 charges to the scythe, with it being able to hold up to 20,000 charges (costing 1,214.5 coins per attack, and a total of 24,290,000 to fully charge it with 60,000 blood runes and 200 vials of blood). One charge is deducted per attack, and it will always lose a charge whether or not it hits. The hourly rate of using the scythe is 1,457,400 coins, meaning the scythe has to generate at least that much more gold in drop value from a boss or monster in order to be worth using over other weapons in terms of profit, assuming they do not cost anything to use. The fully charged scythe will last for 16.66 hours of continuous combat before reverting to its uncharged form.

Once the charges are added to the scythe, they can be returned by using the scythe on the vyre wells in Ver Sinhaza should players decide to uncharge the scythe. Charges left will be rounded down at 100 hits per charge; e.g. with 1,235 hits remaining, 1,200 charges will be deposited. These charges may then be withdrawn from the well to receive the blood runes and vials of blood back. Uncharging outside the well, however, will not return blood runes or vials of blood.

Via rswiki

Lmao rip I must’ve missed that first sentence when reading it myself,

Thank you lol

The only good use for scythe imo is at tob. It’s good a cox too but not worth it. Even though I use it when I do chambers.

If you have the money then go for it

This post was edited by killaround2 on Nov 30 2020 05:23pm

Is tob the only method of getting vials of blood?

correct

awesome tyvm

Honestly the scythe is an extremely useful weapon for certain content. It is very good at tob, nightmare, and cox. Also cerberus. That's about it. It's very expensive to maintain due to the cost of blood rune usage.

As an alternative for ~300m more, the twisted bow has much more utility overall for PvM. The bow is useful, and often best-in-slot, at more content than the scythe. Also, if you can't also afford max strength gear, bandos, torture, primordials, at a minimum (or inquisitor), then don't waste your money on a scythe. Save for the bow.

Consider this when deciding to buy one/TLDR :

Scythe:
-Best-in-slot for the best money-makers/hardest content in the game. ToB/Nightmare
-Expensive to maintain
-Cheaper than Twisted Bow

Twisted Bow:
-Best-in-Slot for some of the best/next best money-makers/hardest content in the game
-Cheap to maintain
-Useful at more content, slayer bosses, etc.
-More expensive than Scythe

scythe is sick if you're doing theater of blood
otherwise, it's a super expensive weapon
better off with a lance at cox, and the lance has more versatility basically everywhere in game

Tyvm, I was thinking of getting the scythe for Cox but already have bis everything else, including lance. I’ll probably just hold off until I get enough for tbow

E/ once I have a bit higher stats, and learn tob maybe I’ll pick up a scythe but until then ..

This post was edited by goopertrooper on Nov 30 2020 07:03pm