The Stropha is a 
Corpus Gunblade with high damage, critical chance, and critical multiplier that shoots a single, wide but close-ranged shockwave.
Characteristics[]
This weapon deals primarily 
Slash damage on its melee attacks, and 
Impact damage on its gunblade shots.
Advantages:
- Highest base damage, critical chance, and critical multiplier of all gunblades.
- Good status chance.
- Gunblade shots shoot a single shockwave.
- High
Impact damage – effective against shields. - Shots have a guaranteed Impact proc.
- Shots have a wide radius.
- Firing within 1 meter of an enemy will ragdoll them.
- Shots do not use ammo.
- Shots have innate punch through.
- High
Disadvantages:
- Gunblade shots:
- No Puncture and Slash damage – less effective against armor and health.
- Immediate damage falloff from 100% to 50% after 11m target distance and from 50% to 10 base damage from 15m to 17m target distance (distances are affected by Projectile Speed, for melee weapons only via Jet Stream).
- Limited range of 17 meters.
- Alarming.
- No bonus damage on headshots.
- Can still perform headshots to bypass Corpus Shield Gating for example, but does not receive any bonus damage.
- No
Acquisition
The Stropha's main blueprint is a possible reward from defeating the Jackal. Component blueprints can be acquired from within the Granum Void; the Barrel and Blade from Rotation C, the Receiver from Rotation C of Extended Granum Void, and the Stock from Rotation C of the Nightmare Granum Void. All components can be traded between players, but not the main blueprint.
| Source | Chance | Expected | Nearly Guaranteed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main Blueprint (Jackal) |
15% | 6 – 7 kills | 43 ± 14 kills |
| Barrel | 22.22% | 6 – 7 C Rotations | 30 ± 9 C Rotations |
| Blade | 22.22% | ||
| Receiver (Extended) |
29.63% | 3 – 4 C Rotations | 20 ± 7 C Rotations |
| Stock (Nightmare) |
29.63% | 3 – 4 C Rotations | 20 ± 7 C Rotations |
All drop rates data is obtained from DE's official droptables.
Expected refers to total number of attempts a player can expect to need in order to receive at least one of each drop associated with the respective values.
Nearly Guaranteed refers to the total number of attempts a player needs to obtain a 99%, 99.9%, and 99.99% probability to receive at least one of each drop associated with the respective values.
For more detailed definitions and information on how these number were obtained, visit here.
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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 30,000 |
 1 |
 1 |
 1 |
 1 |
Time: 24 hrs |
Rush:  25
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 Market Price: 175
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 Blueprints Price:N/A
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This weapon can be sold for 
7,500.
Trivia[]
- Stropha is a Latin word means a turn, bend or twist, probably refers to its function as a gunblade.
- Text on the end of the barrel section translates to "GUN BLADE" in Corpus.
Bugs[]
- Ingame, the Heavy Attack damage displayed is 1,100, the actual value is 2,800 however.
- The displayed Heavy Attack damage is a 5x multiplier of the Stropha's 220 base damage, the actual value is only a 4x multiplier from the Stropha's shot damage of 700.
Media[]
Stropha Skins
Patch History[]
Hotfix 28.2.1 (2020-08-01)
- Fixed Stropha Blade icon being represented as a Prime part in the Inventory.
Hotfix 28.0.6 (2020-06-24)
- Increased Stropha projectile lifetime from .12 to .14.
- Fixed Stropha Heavy Attack not increasing in Damage from Melee Combo stacks.
- Fixed the Stropha shot not gaining Combo hits against a ragdolling enemy.
- Fixed Condition Overload not affecting its shots.
Hotfix 28.0.5 (2020-06-17)
- Fixed inability to Chat link Stropha parts.
Hotfix 28.0.2 (2020-06-11)
- Fixed ability to sell the Stropha Components for Ducats.
Update 28.0 (2020-06-11)
- Introduced.
