The Lecta is a 
Corpus-made 
Electricity whip.
Characteristics
- This weapon deals primarily Electricity damage.
- Stance slot has a
polarity, matching the 
Burning Wasp.
Advantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- No numerical advantages.
Disadvantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Very low crit chance (5.00%)
- Very low total damage (101)
- Very low crit multiplier (1.50x)
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Comparisons:
Lecta (Normal Attack), compared to 
Secura Lecta (Normal Attack):
- Lower base damage (101.00 vs. 176.00)
- Lower
Puncture damage ( 20 vs. 30) - Lower
Slash damage ( 25 vs. 66) - Lower Electricity damage ( 56 vs. 80)
- Lower
- Lower total damage (101 vs. 176)
- Lower base critical chance (5.00% vs. 15.00%)
- Lower base status chance (25.00% vs. 30.00%)
- Lower attack speed (1.00x animation speed vs. 1.25x animation speed)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (0 vs. 8)
- Higher disposition (●●●●○ (1.25x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.20x))
- Lower base damage (101.00 vs. 176.00)
Acquisition
The Lecta's blueprint can be purchased from the Market. Alternatively, it can be acquired from completing the Saturn to Uranus Junction.
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 20,000 |
 Morphics2 |
 Salvage900 |
 Ferrite1,000 |
 Neural Sensors3 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) |
Rush:  35
| |||||
 Market Price: 175
|
 Blueprints Price:30,000
| ||||
This weapon can be sold for 
5,000.
Notes
- With maxed rank dual-stat event mods Virulent Scourge, Voltaic Strike, Volcanic Edge and Vicious Frost the Lecta can achieve a status chance of 85%. Adding Melee Prowess increases this to 88.75%.
Trivia
- This is the first Whip-type weapon ever released, as of Update 11.0 (2013-11-20).
- It would seem that this weapon is deemed the successor to the Prova electric baton.
Media
Lecta in Codex.
Warframe Lecta
Warframe - Gameplay & Information Lecta (Whip)
Lecta Skins
Patch History
Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
- Damage increased from 45 Electricity to 101 (20 Puncture, 25 Slash, and 56 Electricity).
- Slam Attack increased from 90 to 303.
- Slide Attack increased from 96 to 202.
- Parry Angle set to 45.
- (Undocumented) Follow Through decreased from 0.8 to 0.5.
Hotfix 25.0.8 (2019-05-31)
- Fixed the Lecta Energy color persisting as default.
Hotfix 11.0.4 (2013-11-22)
- Fixed missing animations on knee slide with Lecta spin.
Update 11.0 (2013-11-20)
- Introduced.
Last updated: Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
See Also
- Secura Lecta, The Perrin Sequence custom version.
Prova, the Clan-based baton predecessor of the weapon.
Scoliac, Infested based whip.
Atterax, Grineer whip.
Plasma Sword, Electricity based sword.
Serro, Electricity based polearm.
