Updated 2026-08-31 · Reviewed for September 2026 · 8 min read
Scythe Mage Guild Boss Guide 2026
Sunday Guild Daily Boss strategy for Scythe Mage: positioning, attack tells, movement route, damage windows, detach execution, manual scoring, and skill priorities.
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Quick answer
Scythe Mage is the Sunday UTC Guild Daily Boss. Detach is strongly recommended. Stay on the far short side and hug the corner closest to the boss. Hold the closest corner so the wall removes one or more scythes before they arrive.
Scythe Mage field plan
Overlapping scythe sequences leave very small gaps unless positioning causes one or more projectiles to disappear before reaching you.
Stay on the far short side and hug the corner closest to the boss.
Hold the closest corner so the wall removes one or more scythes before they arrive.
Attack tells and response
Primary scythe fan
Tell: A spread travels across the long axis toward the far wall.
Response: Use the corner-despawn position and make the smallest move into the gap.
Follow-up sequence
Tell: A second scythe alignment follows before the first spacing fully resets.
Response: Hold the corner and adjust only after the second gap is visible.
Corner denial
Tell: The boss position changes which far corner is closest.
Response: Move to the new closest corner during the clean interval.
Movement route
- 1
Hold the closest corner so the wall removes one or more scythes before they arrive.
- 2
Align with the visible gap rather than drifting across the whole side.
- 3
Take Size Down when the remaining lane is too tight.
Damage windows
- Detach preserves attacks while you make minimal corner corrections.
- The best damage window is the time saved by not crossing the arena; positioning is the DPS strategy.
How to score higher
- Hold the closest far-wall corner while detach maintains attacks through the smallest possible corrections.
- Use the clean interval to change corners only when the boss position changes which corner deletes scythes.
- Fire between the paired scythe sequences and stop before the follow-up alignment arrives.
- Do not cross the arena for aim; the corner-despawn position produces more total uptime.
- Size Down when the remaining gap is too tight
- Boss damage and attack speed for the long corner hold
- Tracking only when corner corrections repeatedly break aim
- Movement Speed only if the base hero cannot reach the new closest corner during the clean interval
Choose gear and runes after learning the fight
This field plan applies to every gear set. Use a dedicated build guide for the equipment, hero, and rune page you actually play.
Common deaths
- Standing in the center of the far wall
- Over-moving through multiple scythe lanes
- Hugging the corner farthest from the boss
30-second checklist
- Find far short side
- Choose corner closest to boss
- Take Size Down if offered
- Wait for both sequences
- Move only into a visible gap
Why this plan works
Overlapping scythe sequences leave very small gaps unless positioning causes one or more projectiles to disappear before reaching you.
- Detach preserves attacks while you make minimal corner corrections.
- The best damage window is the time saved by not crossing the arena; positioning is the DPS strategy.
Record the result correctly
- Save the target as Scythe Mage.
- Attach the hero, skin, all six gear slots, rune grades, Rune Enchantments, selected skills, and whether detach was active.
- Compare this boss only with earlier attempts against the same boss; unlike weekdays are not a valid damage baseline.