Hema

The Hema is a burst-fire Infested rifle that requires a sacrifice of health in order to reload, but in turn fires accurate bursts of agents that can slash the health of an enemy by half. The weapon also inflicts lifesteal upon headshots, transferring damage dealt to enemies to the player.

Characteristics
Advantages: Disadvantages:
 * Innate damage – effective against Flesh and Cloned Flesh.
 * Its Status Effect will reduce an enemy's maximum health by 50% for 6 seconds.
 * High status chance.
 * Headshots restore 10% of the damage dealt by this weapon to the player.
 * High accuracy and low recoil for a burst weapon.
 * deals reduced damage against Machinery and Infested.
 * Relatively slow projectile speed.
 * Reloading will drain health from the player, depending on how much ammo is needed to be replenished. A full magazine costs about 3% of your max health.

Tips

 * Like all burst fire weapons in Warframe, you must time your clicks in order to fire the weapon at its maximum speed. Mashing the fire button will only stall and fire the weapon at different rates. Frame rates below ~30 will also begin to slow the weapon down.

Trivia

 * The Hema is the first weapon in Warframe that drains the player's health in order to reload.
 * Hema is a word derived from the Greek word haima (αἷμα), meaning 'blood', and is used as a prefix to refer to objects or conditions relating to blood, e.g. "Hematology", "Hematoxin", etc.
 * Despite its in-game description, the weapon does not forge any ammo in any circumstance, as it uses ammo drops to replenish ammo.

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