Life Strike

Life Strike
Tradeable
Transmutable
Max Rank Description
+20% Life Steal on Heavy Attack
General Information
Type	Melee
Polarity	Vazarin
Rarity	Rare
Max Rank	3
Endo Required To Max	210
Credits Required To Max	10,143
Base Capacity Cost	4
Trading Tax	8,000
Introduced	Update 13.0 (2014-04-09)
Drop Table Sources
Missions Enemies Defection (Neptune) Defense (Dark Sector) Survival (Dark Sector Tier 3, Eris) 1x Aurax Atloc Raknoid 0.37% 1x Terra Ambulas 0.2% 1x Terra Elite Embattor MOA 0.2% 1x Terra Elite Raptor SX 0.2% 1x Terra Embattor MOA 0.2% 1x Terra Jackal 0.2% 1x Terra Raptor SX 0.2% 1x Kyta Raknoid 0.1% 1x Mite Raknoid 0.1% 1x Narmer Mite 0.1% 1x Narmer Raknoid 0.1% 1x Scyto Raknoid 0.1% 1x Terra Anti MOA 0.1% 1x Terra MOA 0.1% 1x Terra Railgun MOA 0.1% 1x Terra Shockwave MOA 0.1% 1x Drover Bursa 0.06% 1x Tarask Bursa 0.06%
Vendor Sources
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

Life Strike is a melee mod provides life steal on Heavy Attacks, converting weapon damage to health.

Stats

Rank	Life Steal	Cost
0	+5%	4
1	+10%	5
2	+15%	6
3	+20%	7

Notes

• This mod can be installed on Exalted Melee Weapons.
• Any damage over time effects from Heavy Attacks will not benefit from Life Strike.
• If a companion Kavat, Kubrow, or MOA has  Link Health equipped, they will also receive healing from Life Strike heavy attacks, even if the player's Warframe is already at full health.
  • Since Sentinels cannot equip  Link Health, they cannot receive this benefit.
• Life Strike works on Gunblade's heavy attack bullets, allowing lifesteal over a distance.
• Life Strike works on Glaive weapons, but only on manually-detonated explosions and heavy attack ground slams.
  • Explosions from  Volatile Quick Return or  Volatile Rebound do not work.
  • While Life Strike can be installed on the  Deconstructor ( Prime),  Helios ( Prime) cannot manually detonate its weapon let alone perform any heavy ground slams and thus cannot gain any benefit.

Trivia

• Unlike most mods, the picture shows an  Excalibur wearing the Pendragon helmet, his Immortal Skin, as well as a different color scheme. This is a rare instance of a mod depicting a non-default character loadout. The other examples are Second Wind,  True Punishment,  Enduring Strike, Warrior's Grip,  Killing Blow,  Quickening,  Corrupt Charge,  Counter Pulse, and  Flow ( Primed), all but two of which are channeling mods. Coincidentally, all of said channeling mods depict Excalibur wielding a  Nikana. The only difference in each appearance (besides positioning) is the energy color used.
• Prior to Update 26.0 (2019-10-31), this mod provided life steal on Channeling while reducing Channeling Efficiency.

Gallery

Old appearance

Patch History

Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)

• Heavy Attacks will now regenerate Health (previously +20% Life Steal on Channeling, -140% Channeling Efficiency).

Hotfix 24.1.5 (2018-12-13)

• Updated Life Strike, Focused Defense, and Corrupt Charge Mod descriptions to read better.

Hotfix: The Index Preview 4 (2016-10-25)

• Fixed (for real this time) attaining free health by channeling as enemies pass through the Caustacyst goo with Life Strike equipped. Also fixes similar issue with the Zenistar’s charge disc.

Hotfix: The Index Preview 1 (2016-10-20)

• Fixed attaining free health by channeling as enemies pass through the Caustacyst goo with Life Strike equipped. Also fixes similar issue with the Zenistar.

Hotfix 16.9.3 (2015-06-19)

• Fixed Exalted Blade’s energy waves not getting a damage buff from Channeling or applying unique Mod effects (such as Life Strike).

Hotfix 15.12.2 (2015-01-30)

• Fixed clients not receiving the proper amount of health from Life Strike.

Update 13.0 (2014-04-09)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)

See Also

•  Healing Return, an other melee mod to heal.