Bear Form? Any use?

[Gisborne]

What is the purpose of using this? seems like you at a big disadvantage as you can't dodge. use magic etc

[Le'Stranger Wuv'Bottom]

resistances, health regen.

It is not meant for combat.

[Suzaku]

It's just to break down certain walls or large resource deposits without explosives. And what Stranger Wuv said.

[Natjur]

Originally posted by Suzaku:

It's just to break down certain walls or large resource deposits without explosives. And what Stranger Wuv said.

You get no resources from resource deposits that you break with bear form, you need to use explosives to get the resources.

But its useful for the health regen if you do not want to waste blood healing

[Supernatural Cookie]

Health regen and breaking down doors. The health regen is stupidly fast, so its more efficient if you dun wanna use the blood heal, but thats about it.

[Hyborian Jedi]

It should be good for carrying silver. Faster than being on foot and you don't get knocked out of bear form when you take damage.

[Talamarie]

You can use bear form to fragilise ressources nodes with 1 crush then finishing it with weapons, you get the mats way faster.

[Connatic]

Originally posted by Supernatural Cookie:

Health regen and breaking down doors. The health regen is stupidly fast, so its more efficient if you dun wanna use the blood heal, but thats about it.

Originally posted by Hyborian Jedi:

It should be good for carrying silver. Faster than being on foot and you don't get knocked out of bear form when you take damage.

Currently it seems like the best is the Regen and Resistances. The Silver resistance helped me get home after a massive Silver ore run. If the Sun is an issue, sometimes the Bear form resistance is better than using wolf form's speed when running for shadows.

I think it's smash ability is very niche, it might just need more uses implemented eventually during early access. Kinda like the Frog forms jump ability.

[Holy Fool Sehrael]

It's also good for sneaking into low holy radiation areas to snatch whatever you can if you survive for as long as you don't have a potion for it :D

[Drogash]

bear breaks down the wall to the bandit king

[Boshedo]

Used to break down the walls in some of the bandit camps. I finally unlocked explosives a little bit ago so I'm gonna have fun with that. A couple of guys came in for the rescue on my PVE Server. I was out grinding scrolls and ran into the Bomber Boss. Another player decided to attack him. We wiped and 2 more guys showed up to help us out. He gave me the Book for one of the pieces of Merciless Gear. Shout out to my guys on my server.

[Connatic]

Originally posted by Drogash:

bear breaks down the wall to the bandit king

Yeah, just needs more uses like that. For some reason during my play through, I've only seen one camp with a wall like that.

[.Sparkson]

It also pulls aggro really well.

[Gisborne]

can bear break down player castles?