How to kill bears?

[InfernoI]

I've also found that if you can lure a bear into a U shaped trap, be it in water, or in a cliff in the shape of a U. Shoot them for enough damage that they flee, and if the U shaped trap is long enough, they will de-aggro but stay inside the U shaped trap to afraid to come close to you. As soon as they hit passive, blast them again. Just like chasing them down in a forest except with... "Endurance hunting" aspect. You may have to maneuver a little bit to keep them inside the U trap, and they some times don't actually go into flee mode so it's a really good idea to keep your boat or cliff clicking button handy lol.

[Vraatjuh]

I'll reveal the little trick which allows you to kill just about any animal that is close to water.

Get a bow + arrows and get in a boat. Roam the waters for any animal that is nearby. Agro them from your boat (with standard attack) and lure them to a pointy edge between shallow water and deep water. Now de-agro them by clicking the weapon icon next to their pictogram and moving away from them. When de-agrod you can return and the animal will be in the same spot (the pointier the edge, the bigger the chance he is still in place). Get near the animal, hop of your boat and aim + shoot. Make sure to be close though (5~10 steps away). The animal won't insta agro you (except for Lynxes) and you will have time to release one arrow. When it hits, the animal will agro you (it never flees with this trick) and you will have to quickly jump in your boat and repeat the process. This trick doesn't require any MM (though it's easier to have higher MM to make sure they don't walk away before you can shoot an arrow) or skill.

Only tricky thing is that animals might walk away when not at an edgy point, especially when your MM is low and you have to aim for quite some time.


Have fun hunting anything.

[MightySheep]

bears are very easy to kill doing shit like this



though they might just break boats nowadays, I'm not sure

even if they do, then you can always just rely on shit like this



if you have 2 people doing 200-220 dmg per shot then you can just make it go straight to rage with 2 shots, no running or boat blocking required

but personally, I just hit them with a sword

[dantheman540]

My guide was how to solo kill bears without having to use big exploits, but your absolutely right, the more people you have and the more damage you do, the easier they are to kill. The way I posted above is a way I still use when on my own, but truth be told, these days we usually hunt bears with two or more people.
Bring him to a cliff and shoot him at the same time. He usually rages straight away, and whoever wants it can fire the last arrow.

[Vraatjuh]

My guide was how to solo kill bears without having to use big exploits, but your absolutely right, the more people you have and the more damage you do, the easier they are to kill. The way I posted above is a way I still use when on my own, but truth be told, these days we usually hunt bears with two or more people.
Bring him to a cliff and shoot him at the same time. He usually rages straight away, and whoever wants it can fire the last arrow.

So is mine, just easier and more reliable

[Potjeh]

Bears don't run when shot if they can path to you. You can exploit this with a boat. Just shoot, jump into boat and move out of render range until aggro drops, then go back and repeat.

[Fierce_Deity]

I shall share my two bear killing methods.
My first method involves setting up cliffs around your area with stockpile circles as before to trap the bear in. The cliffs you choose need to be pretty large, as a rule of thumb you usually want both ends of the cliff to go past your vision radius on the mini map. Once you have a couple areas set up murdering bears is simple. After locating a bear you mark their location on your map or just remember the area they are in because bears do not typically despawn or move without a player loading the area. After marking the spot go get a horse from somewhere, if you didn't already have one. Then you proceed to aggro the bear and lead him all the way to your new cliff trap. Its best to alternate the horse from move speed 3 and 2 so you don't use all the horses stamina up. The bear is faster than speed 2 however so you have to be careful, they can hit you while you are on a horse.
Once at the cliff you can leave the bear in the dust or ride into your trap and have him follow you. You should dismount, and jump up your cliff. At this point you will need someone else to close up your trap to make sure he does not escape later on. Once the trap is closed you can proceed to shoot his ass in the face. The trick to not having him bash the stockpiles and run after you shoot him is stupid simple. Deaggro him after he runs, and the bear won't destroy things he runs into. Just bounces off them like before. This trick is nice because one person can do it if they have an alt just to place stockpiles.
I feel like animals in flee mode should count as in combat even after you deaggro them until they stop running faster, but eh whatever.

The other method I like to use to kill bears is, if you have a person with the stats, to tank the bear while another person just shoots them. In my experience so far the bear will never leave the person tanking, nor will it run at all. So long as they can tank safely, you can just shove arrows up that bears ass. However I should mention that there was a ninja patch last night that might of fixed the animals won't flee if 2 people have them aggroed thing. I didn't think it was a bug, but maybe it was. I think it was ninja patched because immediately after that server restart a horse ran while we both had it aggroed, and the other 5 times we had done that to horses they didn't run.