Hema

The Hema is an burst-fire rifle that uses no ammunition, instead demanding a health sacrifice to reload. It fires three-round bursts of agents, lifestealing on headshots to heal the user.
==Characteristics==
*This weapon deals damage.
*This weapon does not use ammo pickups; health is converted to ammo.
**Scales with the amount of ammo restored, up to 5% of the user's max health.
* Headshots have 5% lifesteal.
==Acquisition ==
The Hema's blueprint can be researched from the Bio Lab in the dojo.
== 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 , as its base damage allows for and for Grineer, or and for Corpus.
* The Hema reload has a strange interaction with holster reloads, draining significantly more than the regular 5% max health.
== Known Bugs ==
* is multiplicative to base damage sources on direct hits.
== 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 or is highly suggested due to their high base health, their various means of self-healing, and the latter's innate health regeneration. is another good option, due to the significant health and constant healing granted by her ' Vitality Motes.
==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.
*Prior to , the health drained by the Hema on reloading contributed to 's Fury buff from , albeit in very small amounts.
* This is the second non-Archwing weapon in the game to have infinite/rechargeable ammunition after the and the first primary weapon with such a feature, with the , , , and following this trend.
==Media==
MutagenSamplesCodex.png|Hema in Codex.
Hema 1.png|Hema when shown in the Arsenal
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Warframe - All Infested Weapon Reloads in 30 seconds (2013 - 2019)
==Patch History==
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