Talk:Sibear/@comment-24.54.249.152-20160408162447/@comment-71.158.175.65-20160409011721

Does this guy know anything about game mechanics?

Sure, it gives up impact damage, probably the single worst damage type in the game due to its reductions against Flesh and Cloned Flesh, for cold, which can easily be modded into viral (excellent in combination with CP against Grineer and Void, and pretty good against Corpus), magnetic (great against Corpus), or blast (which destroys heavy Infested and has arguably the best proc CC). The only good things about impact are the fact that Primed Heavy Trauma exists, it's decent damage against shields (though magnetic is better), and the fact that Shattering Impact exists (but you only need to have impact damage for Shattering Impact to work, and most physical damage weapons have some level of impact damage).

While it does have a lower status chance than Jat, it makes up for it by having a 0% chance of proccing one of the useless physical procs, which, unless you mod pretty heavily for elemental on the Jat, (to such a degree that you'll lose a lot of DPS) means that the Sibear (not bringing up the charge attack) will have a higher chance of proccing what you want to proc, due to the way that physical damage weighting works.

Let's do a couple side-by-side comparisons of the 3 hammers in question, with very similar mod sets, without including Brokk, stance multipliers, or channeling:

First, against pure Cloned Flesh (CP Grineer)

Fragor: Blood Rush, Berserker, Body Count, Pressure Point, Organ Shatter, Primed Heavy Trauma, Fever Strike, North Wind. Requires 3 Forma. ~23388 DPS, at max Berserker stacks and a 3x multiplier.

Jat Kittag:  Bloodrush, Berserker, Body Count, Pressure Point, Organ Shatter, Primed Heavy Trauma, Fever Strike, Vicious Frost. Requires 1 Forma (for construction). ~23270 DPS, at max Berserker stacks and a 3x multiplier. ~5.6% chance of proccing viral.

Sibear:  Bloodrush, Berserker, Body Count, Pressure Point, Organ Shatter, North Wind, Fever Strike, Vicious Frost. Requires 1 Forma. ~31272 DPS, at max Berserker stacks and a 3x multiplier. 16% chance of proccing viral.

Next, against Fossilized Infested (heavy Infested)

Fragor:  Bloodrush, Berserker, Body Count, Pressure Point, Organ Shatter, Primed Heavy Trauma, Fever Strike, Shocking Touch. Requires 3 Forma. ~25539 DPS, at max Berserker stacks and a 3x multiplier.

Jat Kittag:  Bloodrush, Berserker, Body Count, Pressure Point, Organ Shatter, Primed Heavy Trauma, Molten Impact, Vicious Frost. Requires 1 Forma (again, for contruction). ~24059 DPS, at max Berserker stacks and a 3x multiplier. ~5.6% chance of proccing blast.

Sibear:  Bloodrush, Berserker, Body Count, Pressure Point, Organ Shatter, North Wind, Molten Impact, Vicious Frost. Requires 1 Forma. ~26805 DPS, at max Berserker stacks and a 3x multiplier. 16% chance of proccing blast.

There. I hope I helped clear some things up.