Melee weapon · Base game · tier IV only

Scythe

LegendaryEthereal

At the game default stat block

215.22 DPS

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)

Tier IV · steady-state mean cycle 0.72 s · one equipped weapon

The coefficients competitors leave out

What Scythe scales from

Melee Damage × 1.0

Every point of Melee Damage adds 1.0 raw damage to each hit before rounding and % Damage.

% Life Steal × 1.0

Every point of Life Steal adds 1.0 raw damage to each hit before rounding and % Damage.

Use your current stats

Your Scythe numbers

Weapon tier

Player stats

Enter the final values shown on your character. Fields start at the game’s own default stat block, where every stat but Max HP starts at zero — a 0 here is that default, not an empty field. These values stay on this device when you open another weapon.

Melee Damagescales damage % Life Stealscales damage % Damage % Attack Speed % Crit Chance Equipped Weaponstiming context

Using 1 equipped weapon

Expected damage / hit154.50one primary-target hit

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor)215.220.72 s mean cycle

The keep-stacking answer

What +1 more point is worth now

+1 Melee Damage+1.43 DPS

+1 Life Steal+1.43 DPS

Exact discrete change after the game’s truncation and rounding steps—not a smoothed estimate.

Outside the number above

What Scythe does that its DPS does not count

The DPS figure on this page measures direct damage to one target. Scythe also carries the following, and none of it is in that figure. These are stated, not quantified: an amount the game itself declares is quoted as it stands, and no DPS is computed for a channel this site has not modelled.

A loss of 3 HP per second and +3% Damage temporarily on hit An effect the weapon declares, outside this figure
This weapon declares a loss of 3 HP per second and +3% Damage temporarily on hit. The DPS figure above neither includes this nor corrects for it: a triggered grant is not a flat value, and this figure is the untriggered one; a standing cost to you is not damage output. A weapon’s declared effects are applied to you on equip and removed on unequip, though what a triggered one is worth depends on a condition this figure does not model.

Metric boundary

What this number means

Expected primary-target DPS (before enemy armor) includes weapon base damage, the listed scaling coefficients, % Damage, weapon and player crit chance, projectile count, shooting duration, and steady-state mean cooldown. It assumes every projectile aimed at the primary target connects.

It excludes enemy armor, weapon-set damage bonuses, later pierce or bounce targets, melee area targets, misses, overkill, burning, explosions, spawned projectiles, on-hit effects, and weapon-scripted damage changes. The chain figure is separate and assumes enough distinct targets for every listed bounce and pierce. Neither figure is “actual DPS.”

Every figure here is measured with one equipped weapon. A character page ranks this same weapon inside that character’s own loadout, at the weapon-slot count that character starts with, and that count changes the steady-state cycle — so the same tier can show a different DPS there. Each character page states the count its figures use.

For melee cycle timing, the calculation uses the weapon’s listed maximum range as attack distance, matching the damage model’s cross-validation method; runtime target distance can change that timing.

Listed values + computed output

All available tiers

Zero player bonus stats

Metric	Tier IV
Base damage	150
Cooldown	3 ticks0.05 seconds
Critical hit	3% × 2
Melee Damage scaling	× 1.0
% Life Steal scaling	× 1.0
Shop price	285
Expected damage / hit	154.50
Expected primary-target DPS before enemy armor	215.22

Read from the character pages

Characters that can start with Scythe

No character’s starting weapon pool offers Scythe, so no character can open a run holding it. Every run that uses it has to acquire it after the run has started.

Same computation, read by weapon

Where Scythe is a notable outlier

This reads the character rankings the other way: which characters can’t equip Scythe at all, and which ones its computed rank moves materially away from the generic, zero-bonus order. Same comparison each character page uses — default 10 Max HP, zero other bonus stats, weapons at their highest usable tier, before enemy armor; full stated assumptions are on each character’s own page.

Cannot use this weapon

Ranger — Melee weapons filtered from offers and cannot be bought
Renegade — Melee weapons filtered from offers and cannot be bought
Wildling — Weapon progression capped at Tier 2

Ranks notably lower than generic

Ranks 15 places lower for Artificer than generic (#17 of 48 melee weapons here, #2 generic)
Ranks 13 places lower for Masochist than generic (#15 of 48 melee weapons here, #2 generic)
Ranks 13 places lower for Pacifist than generic (#15 of 48 melee weapons here, #2 generic)
Ranks 12 places lower for Chunky than generic (#14 of 48 melee weapons here, #2 generic)
Ranks 12 places lower for Cryptid than generic (#14 of 48 melee weapons here, #2 generic)
Ranks 12 places lower for Druid than generic (#14 of 48 melee weapons here, #2 generic)