The Magistar is a heavy, flanged mace.
It is a requisite ingredient for the 
Sibear.
Characteristics[]
This weapon deals primarily 
Impact damage.
Advantages
- High
Impact damage – effective against shields. - High critical chance.
- Stance slot has polarity, matches Shattering Storm stance.
Disadvantages
- Third lowest base damage of all hammers, after Kuva Shildeg and Fragor/ Jat Kittag.
- Low status chance.
- Slow attack speed.
Comparisons:
- Magistar (Normal Attack), compared to Sancti Magistar (Normal Attack):
- Lower base damage per projectile (210 vs. 240)
- Lower total damage (210 vs. 240)
- Lower base critical chance (20.00% vs. 30.00%)
- Lower base status chance (10.00% vs. 20.00%)
- Lower average damage per tap (252 vs. 312)
- Lower burst DPS (209.91 vs. 312)
- Lower sustained DPS (209.91 vs. 312)
- Shorter Range (2.50m vs. 2.60m)
- Lower attack speed (0.83 vs. 1)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (1 vs. 8)
- Higher disposition (●●●●● (1.35x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.25x))
Acquisition[]
The Magistar's blueprint can be purchased from the Market.
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 25,000 |
 3 |
 750 |
 300 |
 80 |
Time: 12 hrs |
Rush:  25
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 Market Price: 150
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 Blueprints Price: 25,000
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Notes[]
- As with other heavy weapons, the Magistar's wall attack is a horizontal circular swing that slowly swings the weapon around the Warframe, allowing it to hit enemies more easily compared to other wall attacks that require pinpoint precision. Unfortunately, this prevents the Magistar from using its wall attack to launch itself upwards, as it will perform the maneuver horizontally regardless of where the Warframe is looking, making it fall instead.
- The Magistar also shares another unusual property with other heavy weapons, namely its tendency to shake the screen violently while blocking attacks.
Trivia[]
- The name "Magistar" is based off a combination of the Latin magister, which means master or teacher, and morning star, a type of mace.
- In Update 15.1 (2014-11-05), the heavy melee weapon family received linear buffs across the board. The Magistar was notably the only one among the affected weapons (Magistar, Jat Kittag, Fragor, Gram, Galatine and Scindo (Prime) to also receive a nerf, having its attack rate lowered from 1.1 to 0.8.
Media[]
Magistar
Warframe - Gameplay & Information Magistar
Magistar Skins
Patch History[]
Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
Actual patch notes made a mistake on old follow through.
- Damage increased from 80 to 210.
- Range increased from 1 to 2.5.
- Slam Attack increased from 160 to 630.
- Slide Attack increased from 160 to 420.
- Parry Angle set to 50.
- Follow Through decreased from 0.9 to 0.4.
Update 18.4 (2016-01-22)
- Magistar damage increased in Conclave.
Update 18.3 (2016-01-13)
- The Magistar has had its damage and Stance damage increased in Conclave.
Update 17.1 (2015-08-12)
- The Magistar has been enabled for use in Conclave.
Update 15.1 (2014-11-05)
- Base damage increased to 80 (up from 50).
- Increased ragdoll effect on enemies.
- Critical chance increased to 20% (up from 12%).
- Attack speed slightly decreased.
Update 11.5 (2013-12-19)
- Introduced.
Last updated: Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
See Also[]
- Sancti Magistar, the syndicate variant.
- Sibear, a melee weapon that is crafted from the Magistar.
