Legacy:Bear
Bears are the considered the toughest and most vicious animals in the game. Bears will, like Boars, attack you unprovoked at and above level 5. A level 10 bear will hit for approximately 800 HP. They will not attack you while you are unconscious.
Also, if a bear is trapped, it will destroy lesser wooden items to if it has a path to you rendering most conventional construction sign traps useless.
Combat Behavior
The bear is going to start off with using a move that gives it 6 (!) initiative and a boost move before attacking you with either a swipe or a bite (the most dangerous of the two). Then it will fill up its attack and defense like most other animals. Fortunately it does not try to gain advantage like the boar or auroch does.
How to fight it
Melee: Bears can take off a large chunk of defense, if not outright hurt you. You will need combat stats of around 150 to combat against a lvl X bear melee. If not, then you are best to fight against it at a range where it cannot hit you. You want to opt for slide if your defense starts to drop, especially after an attempted bite. Otherwise you can use dash or even slide to keep your defense high while gaining initiative.
If your combat skill is not high enough, then use range to shoot it where it cannot reach you or simply avoid it.
Ranged: The best way to kill bear with ranged weapon it's:
- Build a boat and start searching for bears
- After finding block him with signs(actually now bears can destroy them)
- You surely will need a lot of stones if you using sling,at 40MM with 40 sling it takes ~ half of inventory to kill bear(insist of missing)
- When he start running just leave boat and he probably return to you even if icon show that he trying to stop battle,otherwise stop battle with him and just shoot again,you'll lose some lp (reward for killing) but sure wouldnt lose him.
- Just kill him
Sometimes when bear running to you in "stop battle mod" he can stop right near your boat if you sitting in it,that a lot of bugs so just use your fantasy.