Tredecim Scythe  

Wouldn't it bring bad luck when using it on a Friday?

Ok this scythe IS better then Death Scythe for the most part. Yeah every 13th hit IS critcal, including misses, but WS folds also count.. now if your DRK/WAR using this, using guillotine:

You have double attack, which means that 13th critical is comming up a lil faster.

Guillotine is a 4 fold attack, these 4 count twords the 13th critcal.

adding double attack and guillo spam you will critcal @ss loads, overall pushing your damage higher then any other scythe. plus dont forget your natural criticals. Sometimes your critcal can land on your Guillo so you wont see "so-and-so scores a critical hit." You usually can tell from higher then normal WS's. Also subbing WAR allows you to "Double Attack" your weaponskill, you can tell from how much tp you get before and after ws w/ and w/o war sub. (always 17tp with this scythe w/o double attack on Guillotine." This double attack COUNTS as another swing, thus making this scythe all the better. The only time i see Deathscythe as being better is soloing and farming.
Hope i cleared up a lot of speculation on this scythe. As for the mp/tp drain added effect, i have never seen it so i dont know.

This weapon on Shiva server is dirt cheap, even after the inflation. Only costs on average 10k to 30k which was the highest ever paid for it. Guess not many Drks know about it or possibly a common drop for us on Shiva but few make it on the AH and stay for more than a few hours.

as of right now unless someone gives me a pic of someone in ballista having plague after getting hit with this scythe, im declaring the hidden effect plague bullsh*t, kill 300 mobs varying between too weak - IT and it didnt go off once with any visual effect or
Additional effect: plague
thing so thats out, ill test that 13 hit critical thing tho, but unless there is some identifiable proof the plague is for buffalo only

The last rumor for a hidden effect seemed pretty easy to test out and so far it looks like it could be true.

I ran a test of 200 attacks on mobs that conned Too Weak, and every 13th attack (counting misses but not WS) from a certain point was indeed a critical hit. The scythe seems to have a memory, so logging out or zoning will not reset the counter. I did not test to see if selling the scythe and repurchasing it, or buying a 2nd scythe, affects the counter. I also have yet to test it on Easy Prey or harder mobs, which significantly lowers critical hit rate in the case that all of my 13th attacks just happened to all be a normal critical hit (I am a mithra after all).

As for the older rumor, I have never once seen the so-called "Plague" effect proc, having heard many ideas about it such as a need to unlock it with 500 WSes (like the series of Latent effect weapons earned in Kindred Seal BCs). The ability to lower mobs TP would seem worth the effort yet no one seems to have done this as far as I know.

Still, if the 13th attack = forced critical hit, that would mean this scythe is basically Critical Hit +8% (rounding up from 7.6%). That's a pretty respectable number, since the previously mentioned latent effect weapons are +6% and you have to work to unlock that. =^.^=

And lastly, I am pretty sure the language the number Tredecim comes from is Latin.

considering the buffalo have a job ability that plagues you, it is reasonable that this scythe would have a hidden effect like that.

so its tp/mp down is like an additional effect?

ya its a pretty good sell on odin i sold it for 350k here.eney body esle sale for tht much

This drops from the NM Buffalo named Bonnacon in Uleguerand Range. I personally don't find those mobs particularly easy to beat, let alone an NM version. You can find Bonnacon as a lottery pop of regular buffalos near (D-8); he also drops Cure Clogs (or so I'm told). =^.^=

So can someone explain the hidden effect ? Does it give the mob tp/mp down, or does it add to your MP/TP ?

It is rumored to have hidden effect of TP and MP down. Trigger rate is low, but that's why it's costing a lot

Tredecim means 13 in latin ^^
ppl might want it just to say they own all of the games scythes

i saw this scythe on AH the other night and i was wondering why anyone would want to use it.

compared to the death scythe it is higher lvl, less damage, more delay and has no additional effect : Drain.

There has gotta be something up with this scythe, maybe a hidden effect of some sort.