Life Strike

Life Strike
Tradeable
Can be obtained from transmutation
📝 Update Infobox Data
Max Rank Description
+20% Life Steal on Heavy Attack
General Information
Type	Melee
Polarity
Rarity	Rare
Incompatibility Tags	SENTINEL_WEAPON, HOUND_WEAPON
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)
Vendor Sources
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

While Channeling, the Life Strike mod increases Life Steal, i.e. converts weapon damage to health, but dramatically decreases Channeling efficiency.

Stats

Rank	Life Steal	Channeling Efficiency	Cost
0	+5%	-35%	4
1	+10%	-70%	5
2	+15%	-105%	6
3	+20%	-140%	7

Notes

• Must be actively channeling to benefit from this mod.
• Without Channeling Efficiency mods, a Rank 3 Life Strike will add 7 Energy to Channeling cost, for a total of 12 Energy per strike.
• Life Strike works on any damage delivered by the player's Melee weapon. This includes , , , and damage over time procs. Lifesteal on procs will continue to grant you health after you've stopped Channeling until the DoT ends so long as Lifesteal was active when you started the attack.
  • Does not work off procs dealt by Primary or Secondary weapons.
• Works with the ranged attacks of throwing weapons like the  Glaive.
•  Exalted Blade's melee attacks and ranged energy attacks both benefit from Life Strike when channeled. However, the healing effects only work if the player is channeling when a ranged energy arc connects with an enemy. Channeling, launching an arc, and then releasing the channeling button will not activate Lifestrike. One can, however, launch an arc and then channel before it hits the intended mark.
• When using this mod in conjunction with  Power Throw on thrown weapons, the player seems to be healed by all enemies hit by the explosion that is produced by the throw's last bounce as well as normally hit targets. Also, no matter how many targets get hit by this explosion, the energy cost remains the same. However, if nothing is hit, it still costs energy when the impact is made but this trick can be used to easily instantly heal 500 points or more with one throw.
• Kavats, Kubrows, and MOA pets will also share the healing of Life Strike attacks, including Channeling finishers. Sentinels will not receive this benefit.

Tips

• Using this mod at max rank often leads to over-healing, which essentially causes the user to expend more energy than necessary. In most cases it's best when used unranked.
•  Rage and  Hunter Adrenaline synergize well with Life Strike by converting health damage to energy, which can be used to recover health via Channeling and vice versa. This combo works well for Warframes with high health and armor ratings, like  Valkyr,  Atlas,  Inaros,  Chroma,  Rhino, and  Nidus.
• Life Strike works best with weapons that deal a large amount of damage per hit, like the  Dragon Nikana,  Nikana Prime or the  Scindo Prime, as they are very energy-efficient relative to the amount of health restored per hit.
  • It is advised to utilize high-damage melee attacks, such as slide attacks and finishers,due to their higher damage per hit, which allows for more health to be recovered for the same amount of energy.
• If you have this mod equipped try to use channeling sparingly as the penalties to channeling cost can easily drain your energy reserves in a few hits.
• This mod works with Excalibur's exalted blade, so it pairs very well with Excalibur builds.

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,  Shield Transference, 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.

Gallery

Old appearance

Patch History

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: Hotfix 24.1.5 (2018-12-13)