Big Bear Bangers

[p1geonman]

Does anyone know what FEP values these give, and to what stats?

[Blaze]

It's supposedly +50 strength FEP.

[Rift]

It is Exactly 50 str FEP. nothing more nothing less, no other stat. I measured it a while back.

[Malicus]

Wow. Really? ...I want bear meat now. Alas.

[Rift]

yea... bears are harder to get then they used to be.. you have to travel farther and farther / to more dangerous places...
Both because of less server crashes and more civilization killing some of the low-level bear forests.
A hour or two after a server crash is a good time to hunt though.

[p1geonman]

Tragic; that is an incredible food yet I can find no level 4 bears, and level 5 is too much for me because I wasn't one of the people who scored 100k LP with archery back in the day.

[Rift]

The lack of bear lp isnt a limiting factor to hunting bears.
My unarmed skill [which i use as my main combat/hunting tool] was raised completly from 10 or so to what it is now [enough to kill bears with unarmed] after the nerf to bear lp was done... so that nerf isn't really the limiting factor at all.
You can still score quite a bit of LP safetly by hunting with bow/arrows foxes / forest creatures and abusing pathfinding.. or failing that you could do it the hard way and work your way up from lvl 1 foxes using melee or unarmed. [melee is much better/easier]

[p1geonman]

Yeah, melee is way, way up there, but it's not enough for level 5 bears.

[theTrav]

Yeah, melee is way, way up there, but it's not enough for level 5 bears.

exploit initiative storing.
Agro a rat without killing it, then opportunity knocks on something else like a cow or a sheep a bunch of times will let you store a ridiculous number of initiative.

Then use a combination of side-step and whatever high damage high chance to hit special attacks you want. I used valorous strike. If you've got a battleaxe cleave is probably a better bet.

[sami1337]

Yeah, melee is way, way up there, but it's not enough for level 5 bears.

exploit initiative storing.
Agro a rat without killing it, then opportunity knocks on something else like a cow or a sheep a bunch of times will let you store a ridiculous number of initiative.

Then use a combination of side-step and whatever high damage high chance to hit special attacks you want. I used valorous strike. If you've got a battleaxe cleave is probably a better bet.

Heh you probably never tried level 1 unarmed combat against an alt with shield. I did that once and the init went offscreen. Just have your alt follow you and you'll have infinite init.