Hema

Infested Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Hema
Statistics
Type	Rifle
Mastery	7
Slot	Primary
Trigger Type	Burst
Utility
Accuracy	20
Ammo Type	Rifle
Disposition	●●●●○ (1.30x)
Fire Rate	6
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	60
Max Ammo	INF
Reload Time	2 s
Projectile Speed	? m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Normal
47
Total Damage	47
Burst Count	3
Burst Delay	0.1 s
Burst Rate	5
Crit Chance	11%
Crit Multiplier	2x
Fire Rate	6
Multishot	1 (47 damage per projectile)
Status Chance	25%
Projectile Speed	? m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Miscellaneous
Exilus Polarity
Internal Name	/Lotus/Weapons/Infested/LongGuns/InfWFAccompanyingPri/InfestedBurstRifle
Introduced	Update 19.5 (2016-12-22)
Polarities

CODEX

A bloodsucker. This symbiotic burst-rifle leeches health to forge its ammo and then restores health with each headshot.

The Hema is a burst-fire  Infested rifle that requires a sacrifice of health in order to reload, but in turn uses no ammunition and fires accurate three round bursts of  Viral agents. The weapon also inflicts lifesteal upon headshots, converting a percentage of damage dealt to enemies into health for the player.

Characteristics

This weapon deals  Viral damage.

Advantages:

• Innate  Viral damage – effective against Flesh and Cloned Flesh.
• Tied with  Sybaris Prime for the third highest status chance of all burst-fire rifles, behind  Quartakk/ Kuva Quartakk and  Paracyst/ Burston Prime.
• Headshots will restore health to the player, equal to 5% of the damage dealt.
• High accuracy and low recoil for a burst weapon.
• Does not use ammo pickups, and can thus never run out of ammo.

Disadvantages:

• Innate  Viral damage – less effective against Machinery and Infested.
  • Damage cannot be increased with  Impact,  Puncture, or  Slash mods.
• Low critical chance.
• Projectiles have travel time and low flight speed.
• Linearly less efficient – sometimes a target may only die with 4 bullets, which requires an entire second burst to be fired.
• Punishes missed shots more than automatic weapons.
• Reloading will drain the player's health, depending on how much ammo needs to be replenished, up to 5% of the player's max health if the magazine is entirely depleted.

Acquisition

The Hema's blueprint can be researched from the Bio Lab in the dojo.

Manufacturing Requirements
30,000	5	50,000	5,000	1	Time: 12 hrs
					Rush: 35
Market Price: 225			Blueprints Price:15,000
Bio Lab Research 10,000
5,000	5,000	10,000	45,000	50	Time: 72 hrs
					Prereq: Torid
x1   x3   x10   x30   x100

Notes

• The Hema is a highly accurate rifle that heals the player on headshots. To reload however, the player must lay out their arm as the weapon sucks some of their health. It will drain up to 5% of the player's max health depending on how much ammo needs to be replenished to the magazine. With the unmodded magazine size of 60, each bullet reloaded drains 0.083% max health.
  • If the player is at 3 or lower health, it will not reload and the player will have no ammo until they get more health.
• Increasing magazine size does not increase the health drain per magazine. Thus, it decreases the drain per bullet.
• It can be considered a more effective anti-Grineer and Corpus version of the  Paracyst, as its base  Viral damage allows for  Corrosive and  Heat for Grineer, or  Toxin and  Radiation for Corpus.

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 FPS will also begin to slow the weapon down.
• The weapon doesn't require ammo pickups, meaning there is no risk of running out of ammo in endless missions provided the player still has health.
• Using  Inaros or  Nidus is highly suggested due to their high base health, their various means of self-healing, and the latter's innate health regeneration.  Wisp is another good option, due to the significant health and constant healing granted by her  Reservoirs' Vitality Mote.

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.
• The health drained by the Hema on reloading contributes to Chroma's Fury buff from Vex Armor, albeit in very small amounts.
• This is the second non-Archwing weapon in the game to have infinite/rechargeable ammunition after the  Cycron and the first primary weapon with such a feature, with the  Fulmin,  Flux Rifle,  Shedu, and  Basmu following this trend.

Media

Hema in Codex.

Hema when shown in the Arsenal

Warframe - All Infested Weapon Reloads in 30 seconds (2013 - 2019)

Patch History

Hotfix 27.0.10 (2020-01-11)

• Fixed incorrect Energy color on the Hema muzzle flash light.

Update 22.14 (2018-03-01)

• Added FX to Hema headshots to give it a nice leechy feel!
• Increased headshot sound on the Hema.
• You now need a minimum of 3 Health to reload the Hema. Ammo capacity stat is also hidden as it is not required.
• More fixes towards reducing max Ammo Mods affecting the Hema Ammo pool leading to incomplete clip reloads.

Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)

• Damage increased from 45 to 47.
• Critical chance increased from 7.5% to 11%.
• No longer requires or consumes Rifle ammo.
• Improved projectile trail FX.

Update 19.5 (2016-12-22)

• Introduced.