Dire bear

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Dire Bear Creature Levels:     Overall 26     Level Variance -     Natural Attack 26     Weapon Attack 26     Defense 26     Player Estimated - Potential overall skill: 104 Skill Cap 120 to 170 Skinnable Yes Has Coins No Has Gems No Has Boxes No Has Other Unknown Uses Weapons No Alignment No Corporeal Yes Construct No Casts Spells No Attack Range Melee Stealthy No Special Attacks No Special Defenses No Body Type quadruped Body Type (Alt) monstrous Body Size unknown Located: Rocky Outcrop (5) Premium-Only No

Skinning Details Skin Name bear pelt Skin Weight 12 Part Name bear paw Part Weight 4 Bone Name bear bones Bone Weight 12 Ranks Required <99"" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 99. Max Value 548548 Kronars <br />438.4 Lirums <br />395.437 Dokoras <br />0.548 LTBpoints <br />0.548 Tickets <br /> Max Arranged 606606 Kronars <br />484.8 Lirums <br />437.29 Dokoras <br />0.606 LTBpoints <br />0.606 Tickets <br />

Manipulation Manipulatable Yes Skill Required <=133 / 210 Teaching Cap ?

Description

The dire bear's hypnotic effect of swinging its head from side to side is dispelled when you realize that you have encountered a foe with sharp claws, powerful jaws, and quick reflexes.

In Depth

Dire bears are much harder foes than their neighboring silver-backed bears. Someone who can dance four silver-backed bears will, unfortunately, die in three to four hits from a dire bear. They are approximately as strong as shaggy black barghests (daytime barghests), but with better spawn.

Area Information

Dire bears sometimes wander into the silver-backed bear and blood wolf dominated areas of the Rocky Outcrop (5/21/2015).

Skill Caps

• Offenses: Bottom cap around 70.
  
• Defenses: Low range on defenses is 110 minimum, and even then, without decent supernatural or magic defenses you're going to have a bad time. Probably closer to 120 for more than one or two and they spawn quickly. Learning slows noticeably at 150, significantly at 160, and soft caps (1/34) by 170 (7/31/2016).
  
• Tactics: Hard cap (0/34) at 202 with no Soft cap (7/31/2016).
  
• Skinning:Teaches great at 160, but still not getting perfect pelts. Locked (full arrange) thru 249. Stopped locking at 250, but still teaching fine at 251 (7/31/2016).

• 4 MAR 26 - Paladin (Circle 25: STR: 22, STA: 22, AGI: 20, REF: 20) - Shield Usage: 126 / Parry Ability: 114 / Evasion: 95 -- Plate Armor: 126 / Defending: 120 / Conviction: 133 -- Melee Mastery: 123 / Small Edged: 112 / Large Edged: 109 / Twohanded Edged: 101. Fully buffed, I cannot take on a single bear before getting swarmed by 3 - 4. Getting beat senseless with a swarm; can sort of hold my own with 1, but I can't kill it fast enough before others join. Training in Blue-bellied Crocs (near Riverhaven ferry) until higher ranks. /// Update: 5 MAR 26 - Shield 135 / Parry 121 / Evasion 101 / Plate 136 / Defending 130 / Weapons 109 - 120. Fully buffed, I can handle 3 with minimal issues (occasional hard hit / stun), 4 is too much.

Special Attacks

• NONE.
  

Special Defenses

• APPRAISE CAREFUL info: NONE.
  

Attributes

• Strength - is about 20
  
• Agility - is about 20
  
• Discipline - is about 20
  
• Reflex - is about 20
  
• Stamina - is about 20
  

Body Parts

• ARRANGE INFO: The bear can be arranged to produce a skin, part or bone.
  

Messaging

• Spawn: A dire bear lumbers in.
• Entrance: A dire bear saunters in, swinging its head from side to side.
• Exit: A dire bear saunters <direction>.
• Death1: A dire bear growls one last time and collapses.
• Death2: A dire bear growls low and dies.
• Decay: A dire bear rots away into nothingness.

Recall Knowledge

You recall reading once that the dire bear got its name from the long canine teeth it has.
They are not known to cast any recognized spells.
They are not known to carry loot in locked boxes.