The Sibear is a large hammer featuring a head composed entirely of 
Cryotic that deals 
Cold damage on attacks. Performing a heavy attack increases its Status Chance considerably, making it ideal for inflicting status effects on enemies.
Characteristics[]
This weapon deals primarily Cold damage.
Advantages:
- Innate
Cold damage – effective against Shielded, Alloy Armor, and Infested Sinew. - High Impact damage – effective against shields.
- Good critical chance.
- High status chance.
- Attacks have a chance to inflict an area of effect Cold proc.
- Heavy Attacks grant a +50% status chance bonus to all attacks with the Sibear for 4 seconds.
- Stance has a polarity, matches Crushing Ruin.
- Innate polarity.
Disadvantages:
- Innate Cold damage – less effective against Infested Flesh and Fossilized.
- Low Puncture damage – less effective against armor.
Acquisition[]
The Sibear's blueprint can be purchased from the Market.
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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 30,000 |
 1 |
30,000 |
 50,000 |
Time: 12 hrs | |
Rush:  25
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 Market Price: 165
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 Blueprints Price: 15,000
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Notes[]
- On a heavy attack, and for any following attacks made within 4 seconds of the heavy attack, the Sibear's modded status chance will be additively increased by 50%. Unmodded, this bonus will result in an 80% status chance for 4 seconds.
- With a single 60/60 installed ( Volcanic Edge, Vicious Frost, Voltaic Strike, or Virulent Scourge), the Sibear will have a: 30% × (1 + 60%) + 50% = 98% status chance.
- With a single 60/60 installed (
- The Sibear is currently the most expensive item in-game in regards to Cryotic requirements for construction, needing 30,000 Cryotic to build.
- It is also the second most expensive item for Alloy Plates, requiring 50,000.
- Slam attacks release a small ice spike from the ground.
Trivia[]
- Sibear is most likely a corruption of Siberia, a region in Russia known for its low temperatures, si and bears.
- Sibear was the first melee weapon to deal pure Cold damage.
- It is also the first hammer whose components derive from another hammer to build.
- The ice spikes on the Sibear's head will temporarily grow when performing a charge attack or a jump attack from a significant height.
Bugs[]
- Adding a combined element (that leaves the innate cold damage) may remove the shimmering cold effect on the coils, despite there being Cold damage on the weapon. This bug is inconsistent and may not appear for some people. Video Proof
Media[]
Sibear in Codex.
Warframe Sibear, Warframe & Chill thequickdraw
Warframe Sibear - Cold As Ice
Warframe - Sibear "Frost Hammer?"
Warframe - Sibear Mold as Ice
Warframe Sibear
Warframe SIBEAR Setup & Discussions (U18.8.1)
SIBEAR IS HERE - So much cryotic build warframe
Sibear Skins
Patch History[]
Update 26.0 (2019-10-31) Actual patch notes made a mistake on new damage number and on old follow through.
- Damage increased from 130 Cold to 270 (70 Impact, 20 Puncture, 50 Slash, and 130 Cold).
- Range increased from 1 to 2.6.
- Status Chance increased from 10% to 30%.
- Slam Attack increased from 260 to 810.
- Slide Attack increased from 260 to 540.
- Parry Angle set to 50.
- Follow Through decreased from 0.9 to 0.4.
Hotfix 22.17.1 (2018-04-05)
- Fixed the Sibear being granted stacking bonuses from charge attacks and those bonuses being persistent when using a Skin.
Hotfix 21.0.7 (2017-07-13)
- Fixed the Palatine Hammer Skin not applying correctly to the Sibear.
Hotfix 19.11.5 (2017-02-28)
- Fixed a script error caused by the Sibear.
Hotfix 19.9.2 (2017-02-07)
- Fixed a script error when using the Sibear.
Hotfix 18.8.1 (2016-04-08)
- Fixed the Sibear not applying color customizations properly.
Update 18.8 (2016-04-06)
- Introduced
Last updated: Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
