When Jagex announced they were looking at making another melee mega-rare, I was curious how they could distinguish it from scythe with its obvious use case agaisnt larger enemies. After seeing the TzHaar-Breaker get almost the exact same multi-hit mechanic with some extra bells and whistles, I was a little disapointed. Even if Jagex adjusts the numbers so the Breaker isn’t vastly better than Scythe in most places (which currently seems to be the case), I don’t see how the two weapons can ever feel like they have unique niches where they dominate other than bosses with extremely noticable slash/crush weaknesses. I would much rather have a new melee mega-rare scale off some other monster characteristic other than size similar to tbow which lets it be incredible on certain fights and mediocre on others. An idea I always though would be cool is having a melee weapon that scales with elemental weakness like a crush Thunder Khopesh where the lightning strikes scale with fire/air weakness. There’s a lot of potential to have bosses like Vardorvis who have elemental weaknesses despite having an incredibly high magic defense where an elemental melee weapon could excel while still leaving large monster with low defense as the Scythe’s domain. submitted by /u/GoobooAchoo
Originally posted by u/GoobooAchoo on r/2007scape