Talk:Scindo Prime/@comment-24460363-20150214144329/@comment-8.36.69.16-20150218233553

You have a slight problem with using it in such a manner. To activate lifestrike you have to switch weapons so you can channel, if you can't kill effectively still with it if you get surprised you lose a couple of seconds of fighting ability to switch back to weapons that can. Say you're fighting against the Stalker or another enemy that is dangerous. You need health, but while doing so you are still dangerous if necessary, instead of losing the time to switch to the melee, get your health back, and switch back.

Basically, you're leaving yourself dangerously open for little reason, the build I put above doesn't require forma after all. Or an event mod you might not have. The poison mod you can get from farming the boss of Tower 4 missions.