“Market forces dictate that you need to evolve or die.”
Tiberon Prime is Vaulted.
The Void Relics for this item have been removed from the drop tables at this time and are no longer farmable. Vaulted Void Relics in player inventories are not affected and can still be opened.
The Tiberon Prime is the select-fire Prime version of the three round burst-fire rifle 
Tiberon, featuring overall higher stats. Unique to the weapon is its three firing modes that can be swapped through its Alternate Fire: balanced statistics on its three round burst-fire mode, higher critical chance and critical multiplier on semi-auto mode, and higher status chance on full-auto mode. It was released alongside 
Zephyr Prime and 
Kronen Prime.
Characteristics[]
This weapon deals primarily 
Puncture damage by a small margin.
Advantages:
- Three firing modes that can be cycled with Alternate Fire: 3-round burst, semi-auto, and full-auto.
- High accuracy.
- Very low recoil, especially on Burst-fire and Semi-auto modes.
- Auto:
- Tied for highest critical multiplier with
Ambassador. - Third highest status chance behind Kuva Hind.
- Tied for third fastest reload speed with Hind, Stradavar, and Stradavar Prime, behind Zenith.
- Tied for third largest ammo pool with Hind, Kuva Hind, and Stradavar, behind Ambassador.
- Tied for highest critical multiplier with
- Semi-Auto:
- Highest fire rate.
- Highest critical multiplier.
- Burst:
- Highest critical multiplier.
- Fastest reload speed.
Disadvantages:
- Burst-fire mode is linearly less efficient – sometimes a target may only die with four bullets, which requires an entire second burst to be fired, or a change to Fire Mode.
- This can also be mitigated by using quick melee with good timing, canceling the burst partway through.
- Full-auto mode has high recoil.
- Auto:
- Small magazine.
- Semi-Auto:
- Very low damage per shot.
- Small magazine.
- Burst:
- Below average status chance.
- Below average magazine.
Comparisons:
- Tiberon Prime (Auto), compared to Tiberon (Normal):
- Higher base damage per projectile (46 vs. 44)
- Higher total damage (46 vs. 44)
- Lower base critical chance (16% vs. 26%)
- Higher base critical multiplier (2.8x vs. 2.4x)
- Higher base status chance (32% vs. 16%)
- Lower average damage per shot (59.25 vs. 60.02)
- Lower burst DPS (493.54 vs. 545.55)
- Higher sustained DPS (353.37 vs. 323.81)
- Lower fire rate (8.33 round(s)/sec vs. 9.09 round(s)/sec)
- Larger magazine (42 round(s) vs. 30 round(s))
- Faster reload time (2 s vs. 2.26 s)
- Different polarities ( vs. )
- Higher Mastery Rank required (14 vs. 10)
- Lower disposition (0.95 vs. 1.05)
Acquisition[]
Lith, Meso, Neo, and Axi refer to Void Relics | (V) Denotes Vaulted Void Relics | (B) Denotes Baro Ki'Teer Exclusive Void Relic
| Stock | Barrel | Receiver | Blueprint |
|---|---|---|---|
 Lith T2 Rare (V) Lith T6 Rare (V) Meso T2 Rare (V) Meso T3 Rare (V)
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Meso T1 Rare (V) Neo K3 Uncommon (V)
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 Axi D1 Common (V) Axi G5 Common (V) Axi K3 Common (V) Axi P2 Common (V) Meso O2 Common (V) Meso R1 Common (V)
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Axi L2 Uncommon (V) Axi O2 Uncommon (V) Axi O4 Uncommon (V) Lith A3 Uncommon (V) Lith C8 Common (V) Lith K3 Uncommon (V) Neo R2 Uncommon (V)
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| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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 20,000 |
 1 |
 1 |
 1 |
 10 |
Time: 12 hrs |
Rush:  50
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 Market Price: N/A
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 Blueprints Price:N/A
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Vaultings[]
- On December 4th, 2019, it was announced that Tiberon Prime, alongside Zephyr Prime and Kronen Prime, would enter the Prime Vault and its relics retired from the drop tables on December 17th, 2019. Any preexisting components or fully-built weapons will remain as is.
Trivia[]
- Tiberon Prime is the first primary weapon to have three firing modes, namely burst-fire, semi-auto, and full-auto modes.
- Tiberon Prime is the second primary weapon with the ability to switch fire modes, the first being Stradavar.
Media[]
Tiberon Prime in Codex.
Warframe - All Prime Primaries - Weapon Animations & Sounds (2013 - 2019)
Warframe - All Prime Weapon Reloads in 1 minute (2013 - 2019)
Tiberon Prime Skins
Patch History[]
Update 25.8 (2019-10-01)
- October 2019 Riven Disposition Change
- Tiberon: 0.95->0.85
Hotfix 22.16.4 (2018-03-20)
- Introduced.
Last updated: Hotfix 24.1.5 (2018-12-13)
See Also[]
- Tiberon, the normal counterpart of this weapon.
- Kuva Hind, a Grineer rifle with functionally equivalent firing modes.
