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Maiming Strike is an Acolyte Melee mod that increases the chance of a critical hit on slide attacks.
Stats[]
| Rank | Critical chance | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | +25% | 2 |
| 1 | +50% | 3 |
| 2 | +75% | 4 |
| 3 | +100% | 5 |
| 4 | +125% | 6 |
| 5 | +150% | 7 |
Drop Locations[]
Mission Drop Tables
| Mission Type | Source | Rotations or Drop Table |
Chance[1] | Quantity[2] | Avg. per roll[3] | Star Chart Nodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Necralisk Bounty | Necralisk Bounty Lvl 15-25 Final Stage | B | 40% | 1 | 0.4 |
|
| The Circuit | Tier 4 The Circuit (Normal) | A | 1.49% | 1 | 0.0149 |
Accessed through Duviri's The Circuit gamemode |
| The Circuit | Tier 6 The Circuit (Normal) | A | 1.03% | 1 | 0.0103 |
Accessed through Duviri's The Circuit gamemode |
Enemy Drop Tables
| Enemy | Drop Table Chance[4] | Item Chance[5] | Chance[6] | Expected Kills[7] | Quantity[8] | Avg. per roll attempt[9] |
|---|
Sourced from the official drop table repository. See Module:DropTables/data to edit on the wiki.
Notes[]
- Maiming Strike stacks additively with similar mods. For example, an
Atterax with a max rank ![Mod TT 20px](data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="12" height="20"><rect fill-opacity="0"/></svg>)
True Steel, Maiming Strike, Blood Rush at a 2.0x combo multiplier, and an 
Arcane Avenger will have a 25% × (1 + 120% + 150% + (2 - 1) × 60%) + 45% = 152.5% critical chance on slide attacks. - Does not affect Exalted Weapons.
Trivia[]
- Prior to Update 26.0 (2019-10-31), Maiming Strike provided a flat +90% critical chance slide attacks that is calculated after critical chance mods are applied.
Patch History[]
Update 29.0 (2020-08-25)
- Now drops from level 15-25 Necralisk Bounties
Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
- Changed from an additive buff to a stacking buff, but base functionality increased from 90% to 150%.
Update: Lunaro (2016-06-15)
- Fixed the Maiming Strike Mod not applying Critical Damage if your slide was cancelled right before you attacked the enemy.
Hotfix 18.4.1 (2016-01-25)
- Added to the game as an event-exclusive drop from Operation: Shadow Debt.
Last updated: Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
| CollapseCritical Hit Mods | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle | Chance |  Point Strike • Critical Delay • Argon Scope ( Galvanized)
| |
| Damage | Vital Sense • Hammer Shot • Bladed Rounds
| ||
| Shotgun | Chance | Blunderbuss • Critical Deceleration • Laser Sight
| |
| Damage | Ravage ( Primed) • Shrapnel Shot
| ||
| Pistol | Chance | Pistol Gambit ( Primed) • Creeping Bullseye • Hydraulic Crosshairs ( Galvanized)
| |
| Damage | Target Cracker ( Primed) • Hollow Point • Sharpened Bullets
| ||
| Melee | Chance | Blood Rush • Maiming Strike • True Steel ( Sacrificial)
| |
| Damage | Gladiator Might • Organ Shatter ( Amalgam)
| ||
| Arch-gun | Chance | Critical Focus • Parallax Scope
| |
| Damage | Critical Focus • Hollowed Bullets
| ||
| Arch-melee | Chance | Critical Meltdown • Tempered Blade
| |
| Damage | Bleeding Edge
| ||
| Weapon Augment | Deadly Maneuvers • Deadly Sequence • Exposing Harpoon • Hata-Satya • Amalgam Ripkas True Steel
| ||
- ↑ Chance to roll item within drop table
- ↑ Amount rewarded on successful roll
- ↑ (Quantity × Chance)
- ↑ Chance to roll drop table
- ↑ Chance to roll item within drop table
- ↑ (Drop Table Chance × Item Chance)
- ↑ (1 / Chance), see WARFRAME Wiki:Expected & Nearly Guaranteed Numbers for more details
- ↑ Amount rewarded on successful roll
- ↑ (Quantity × Chance), average item quantity on a roll attempt (successful or not)
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331 comments
My favorite bit about that trivia is that if that WAS how it worked, maiming strike wouldnt have been so overbearingly strong.
Before the nerf the flat was applied BEFORE all the mods,not after. (thus why atterax after a single spin was already hitting red crits)
Had DE just made it apply as a value at the end instead of making bloodrush scale off it. then it would have had its place as a "make slide weapons strong but not mandatory" (course the funniest thing on this nerf was DE went out of there way to further nerf Tonfa's base slide damage, who's entire gimmik was low base attack but high slide attack damage)
To balance this mod, i would rework it to :
+30% base crit chance on slide attack. (so, multiply by crit mods. but only 30%, far less than the 90% before rework)
Or :
+60% damage on slide attack (multiplicative) ; +2m range on slide attack.
I think in both case, it would be strong enough to make slide attack and this mode good again, without make it stronger than everything other like before the rework.
Man, looking back on the AoE nerfs upcoming and seeing this.
We never did change, huh?
Shame too, we'll never improve if we don't seek to do better.
EDIT: By that, I mean this comment section. A lot of people still bitter about that, huh? Eheh, their loss for the gain of many, many more.
Ok.
This mod basically demonstrates how DE works today. Its not about making a fun game but how to make a game into a $$$$ maker today 90% of DE's meetings is about "how do we make money, push more skin sales, nerf old gear to force players to grind or pay for new gear, to inflate player base numbers make it look like people enjoy playing the game"|
Today the only reason why vets still play this game is creating weapon porn and being the first to find and show off a god tier build to exploit before DE nerfs it next week. this game now feels like a casino, the same way gambling addicts look for new ways to exploit casinos is the perfect analogy of the DE vet player always thinking he can one up the studio
There's no more cohesion or grand vision of story the DEVS just like Hollywood look at old 1960s, 70s, 80s novels, comic books, video games, and movie content to copy from and hope nobody remembers what 50 year old idea they are stealing from
"that aoe-weapons (or melee) become a must."
Already a massive improvement from everyone running the exact same melee weapon and just doing slide attacks with Maiming Strike.
Also what kind of shitty builds are you running that AoE weapons are a must? The only thing where that is even remotely true is solo steel path survival, and only if you don't even have punchthrough on the single target weapon.
AoE meta is just as boring as slide attack meta was, pretend otherwise and you are lying to yourself. Fact of the matter is, Warframe is a horde shooter, so wide range damage will remain king in 90% of the content. You have your pockets where single target can shine, but that's really all they are: pockets. (Disruption and Liches/Sisters come to mind)
If your single target weapon isn't good enough to kill crowds like in steel path survival, its just because you are bad at the game, you don't even need punch through, just either get a better weapon, or mod it better. The issue is you here, AOE is nowhere neer a must, even for level cap, just (literally) gitgud
And as always, punchthrough is an extremely slept on stat.
Does the mid air slide your do for heavy attack using Exodia Contagion count?
Late response but no it doesn't count as a slide attack. Only for direct contact with the weapon.
This would mean Heavy Slide Mid-Air Attack would but the proper term probably is Knee Attack which is in fact, totally worthless unless I'm wrong and Slide Actually means Slide and works whenever you slide.
Does this mod still drop from Deimos Bounties? Doesn't seem to be in the drop table.
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I will still never forgive you guys for complaining nonstop about maiming strike and getting it nerfed
Melee is in better state now and if you want to macro spam spin you still can
Never forget
Lmao I can only imagine the devastation the hoarders of this mod have felt knowing this is now 5 plat.
I'm just glad i got the one from when the accolytes were a weekly mission
Jokes on you i sold mine before the nerf lol
Funny to see this once sought after mod be utterly worthless, hope DE makes few tweeks to make it atleast usable
"Utterly worthless", lol. It's accessible from simple bounties, affects the most powerful, versatile and common type of melee attack players generally use, and is only outclassed by a mod with more than twice the capacity cost with an extremely hard-to-mitigate polarity, that's also locked behind story progression.
But yeah, it's trash tier.
Gotta love this community.
Yes, its utterly worthless, given how regular attacks have forced procs and multipliers slide attacks pale in comparison, you would've noticed that if you weren't stuck in 2016 when memeing strike and spin to win macro users were prevalent and melee was as powerful as a hair dryer is as stopping a charging hippo
Its 150% for which you have to do deimos bounties of which its a rare drop, new players would just use true steel which is 120% (which doesn't require slide and works all around) until they can get sacrificial steel if they need it for a heavy attack build, as blood rush is infinitely better crit mod.
"affects the most powerful, versatile and common type of melee attack players generally use"
What the fuck? People still do slide attacks?
Hmmm has anything changed?
If the stance is good for it, then slide attack is better than non-slide attacks
Valkyr Talons for starters.
Mmm... if this mod was nerfed to DEATH, will D.E. keep giving us the Acolytes to kill'em... ? I mean, what would it be the point if this mod now cost zero platinum and you even can farm it in Deimos... x'D, i even have it, just for the memes... x'D
I get that it was overpowered in the past but is DE retarded? Sacrificial steel gives you a higher crit chance and not limited to slide attacks. Once again proof this clown dev studio doesn't play their game outside of 1 hour community streams.
True.
What made it overpowered in the past was that it was Additive. which meant that if the 90% would be added to a base 30 making 120 vs the 220 from sacrificial would only take 30% to 96%
Bought for 400p 2 years ago, after comeback 5p lololol good job DE
No.
The problem is that before the melee rework, this mod was op, and now, it is trash tiers.
In both case, it is not balance.
Memeing Strike
When you have a company like DE constantly manipulating the game, that's called self serving corruption. DE is just as shady as a casino. the whole point of a GAME is you create rules and stick to them when the game maker constantly breaks rules to serve their own interest then there's nothing trust worthy about them and this is why video games will take a massive fall after hyper inflation sets in
What rules did DE have that prevents them from crashing the market ruled by the 0.01% of players?
When it comes to rules, the only rules DE have to follow is not to release Excalibur Prime, Skana Prime, and Lato Prime.
Memeing strike is kil
Yes, I was a user of this mod and I still feel bad about it, spinning telos boltace around, ruining gameplay for everyone in my squad. May you burn in hell for all eternity you maiming piece of trash.
Even after so much time after nerf i still don't miss it, god what a terrible mod
I made killin on this mod few years back hunting those stalkers.....still got few thousand plat from sales.
Tx DE
Haha maiming strike is dead
DIE maiming strike! die die die die die die die die die die die
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