Death's Scythe

The Death's Scythe is a sword-type melee weapon added in the Return to Castlevania DLC. Forces the spirit of enemies you killed to help you, summoning them as allies. They will target and explode on near enemies, dealing a Critical Hit.

Details

• Special Effects:
  • Enemies killed by the scythes will be reanimated as ghosts.
    • The ghosts follow the player around and will attack enemies, dealing critical damage exploding.
      • The damage dealt is decided by the health of the enemy that created the ghost.
      • Enemies killed by the ghosts do not create new ghosts.
        • The Legendary affix Cascading Ghosts makes this possible.
    • The ghosts follow the player after using a teleporter.
    • The ghosts do not follow the player through doors into sub-biomes.
    • The ghosts disappear on their own after a while.
• Breach Bonus: 0 / 0.3 / 0.5 / 0
  • Base Breach Damage: 75 / 117 / 165 / 240 (80 per tick)
  • Base Breach DPS: 266
• Combo Duration: 2.24 seconds
  • First Hit: 0.6 (0.3 + 0.3 + 0)
  • Second Hit: 0.28 (0.1 + 0.18 + 0)
  • Third Hit: 0.83 (0.43 + 0.4 + 0)
  • Fourth Hit: 0.53 (0.16 + 0.37 + 0)
• Tags: NoCritical
• Legendary Version:
  • Forced Affix: Cascading Ghosts
    • "Enemies killed by ghosts become ghosts themselves"

Synergies

• This weapon can benefit from the Instinct of the Master of Arms mutation, as the ghosts it summons deal critical damage.
• The ghosts summoned by this weapon are considered a ranged attack and are therefore affected by ranged mutations such as Point Blank.

Notes

• Most enemies spawn ghosts, there are however few exceptions like Myopic Crows and Protector.
• Like all weapons added in Return to Castlevania DLC expansion, Death's Scythe is based on the weapon from the Castlevania series. In this case, it is known under the same name.
  • Visually, no known version of Death's Scythe resembles one from Dead Cells except for the crude design, resembling his scythe in his second phase in aria of sorrow. However, half of it looks similar to one from Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow.
  • It functions most similarly to the variant found in Castlevania: Harmony of Despair.

History

3.3: Introduced.

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