Direbear

[brailleg]

Just perfect tamed a 120 direbear and honestly after almost 3 full weeks weeks of in game play time I'm kicking myself for not having gotten one sooner. It's just awesome in every way. I'm specifically curious as to weather it has any glaring faults, dies anyone have any problems with the bear? And how is it for gathering pelt?

There seems to be some discussion as to weather the wolf or Saber is better for pelt farming, does anyone have any hard input on that, and how does the bear fare as far as pelt farming? Average? Thanks in advance.

[Maireen]

http://ark.gamepedia.com/Pelt

[brailleg]

Originally posted by Maireen:

http://ark.gamepedia.com/Pelt

Thank you for the input, however the info on that page is over a year old with the last edit being just over 2 months which was just to add an amendment to the table. And while it provides info on pelt I'm more wondering about the dire bear, experiences on raids, pvp vs pve usefulness and even anecdotal experiences like battling a Rex or an alpha raptor.

[Vesuvius]

Dire Bear is still the best for harvesting fibre as far as riding one goes. Ape is still more time efficient though as it harvests fibre on wander ( stick in a big enough enclosure and let it go to town) .

harvesting pelt i still drop a well lvl'd wolf from an argy on aggressive and let it do the pelt gathering.

Just my opinion tho

[sal ¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

We use our dire bears mainly for transporting heave stuff.
Our best imprinted bear is now sitting at 3.4k weight.
They fit thru the small dino gates making them perfect to transport stuff in our base like metal.
We dont really use them for meat gathering since there are other dinos that do it better but if you quickly need some ffiber nothing beats the Bear.
You can clean the entire volcano top with 2 good bears and an anky on a platform quetz!

So they are amazing transport dinos, and pretty decent at nearly everything else.

[brailleg]

Originally posted by Vesuvious:

Dire Bear is still the best for harvesting fibre as far as riding one goes. Ape is still more time efficient though as it harvests fibre on wander ( stick in a big enough enclosure and let it go to town) .

harvesting pelt i still drop a well lvl'd wolf from an argy on aggressive and let it do the pelt gathering.

Just my opinion tho

Lol, that's awesome, I always worry they'll run and I won't be able to catch them when on wander/aggressive. Ty for the input tho!

[HawthornThistleberry]

Originally posted by Vesuvious:

Ape is still more time efficient though as it harvests fibre on wander ( stick in a big enough enclosure and let it go to town) .

Doesn't even need to be on wander actually.

And in my opinion the fact that your bear's going to be gathering fiber every time it kills anything near a plant is likely to produce more fiber than you can ever use. If a gigantopithecus were an easy and quick tame, sure, the passive would be worth it. If you're taming one anyway for the dossier or just for fun, use it for that. But if it's just to get the fiber, the time it saves by having already gathered fiber is never going to make up the time it took to tame it.

[sal ¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

Originally posted by HawthornThistleberry:

Originally posted by Vesuvious:

Ape is still more time efficient though as it harvests fibre on wander ( stick in a big enough enclosure and let it go to town) .

Doesn't even need to be on wander actually.

And in my opinion the fact that your bear's going to be gathering fiber every time it kills anything near a plant is likely to produce more fiber than you can ever use. If a gigantopithecus were an easy and quick tame, sure, the passive would be worth it. If you're taming one anyway for the dossier or just for fun, use it for that. But if it's just to get the fiber, the time it saves by having already gathered fiber is never going to make up the time it took to tame it.

I tamed 2 low levels and let them wander once every 3-4 weeks to gather enough fiber for our entire tribe. They gather it so fast and so much it is pretty OP.
If i need fiber fast right NOW i will use the bear. But i already had the apes when the bear was relased, maybe i would not have dont it then. But then on the other hand we are currently taming a lvl 116 ape =)

[shayne.oneill]

Direbears are fantastic. Just dont overestimate its capacities. I've lost a couple that way, and it sucks, especially since its a relatively long tame (without kib)

[penfold0101]

Originally posted by brailleg:

There seems to be some discussion as to weather the wolf or Saber is better for pelt farming, does anyone have any hard input on that, and how does the bear fare as far as pelt farming? Average? Thanks in advance.

We have been gearing up for the cave of the strong and for the last week harvesting pelt for the Master Craft fur Hat, Leggings and boots we need.
first off we went into the snow on a cat, dog and bear. After a non scientific time frame, randomly eating stuff the three of us did an inventory check......the wolf had the most pelt.

Lots of variables could of effected this test......the player on the wolf may of targeted better dinos for pelt. The guy on the bear is a smoker, he could of stopped for a sneaky ciggy!

Off this one test we built a blender in the snow area. a nice big box with 6 high level dire wolf in.
Then using Quetz we pick up and drop in mammoth and rhino!

[ronniell1168]

Direbears are absolutely my favorite. I tamed several 150 bears and bred for stats until I got all the best stats on a male and female. They now drop lvl 255 babies.

As someone said earlier they make great mules. Easily get one over 3k carry.

My second favorite bear is for land/cave running. At 800+% melee running mate boosted he swipes for almost 1k damage per hit. Makes pretty short wok in most caves.

But, my very favorite bear is my water bear. She has about 5.5k health, 4.5k stamina, 3.5k oxygen and decent melee, around 600% I think. She can out swim a wild mosa, outfight a wild mosa (or 3), and stay under for 15 -20 minutes at a time depending on the amount of fighting you you do.

Just make sure you have them on follow if you dismount underwater. 😏

Only drawback is that they can't jump. But don't be afraid to run one off of a cliff. Just dismount, stand on the saddle until you hit bottom, remount. No damage.

[brailleg]

Originally posted by ronniell1168:

Direbears are absolutely my favorite. I tamed several 150 bears and bred for stats until I got all the best stats on a male and female. They now drop lvl 255 babies.

As someone said earlier they make great mules. Easily get one over 3k carry.

My second favorite bear is for land/cave running. At 800+% melee running mate boosted he swipes for almost 1k damage per hit. Makes pretty short wok in most caves.

But, my very favorite bear is my water bear. She has about 5.5k health, 4.5k stamina, 3.5k oxygen and decent melee, around 600% I think. She can out swim a wild mosa, outfight a wild mosa (or 3), and stay under for 15 -20 minutes at a time depending on the amount of fighting you you do.

Just make sure you have them on follow if you dismount underwater. 😏

Only drawback is that they can't jump. But don't be afraid to run one off of a cliff. Just dismount, stand on the saddle until you hit bottom, remount. No damage.

Yeah, I had a bad experience when I was new to the server with a Terry, I tamed it at level 80 (official server btw so no 150 takes for us lol) but it was a big deal at the time, anyways, bad things happened. I now carry a parachute or 3 on me at all times. I didn't know the bear was quite as fast as it was. I ran right off a cliff that would easily have killed me, I dismounted and ripped the chute. Thankfully. But that's a good tip for anyone and I thank you. Dinos don't take fall damage so long as they aren't mounted. So if u gonna die from a fall, bite the bullet and dismount. You may die (unless you carry a chute) but your critter will survive.

[brailleg]

Originally posted by penfold0101:

Originally posted by brailleg:

There seems to be some discussion as to weather the wolf or Saber is better for pelt farming, does anyone have any hard input on that, and how does the bear fare as far as pelt farming? Average? Thanks in advance.

We have been gearing up for the cave of the strong and for the last week harvesting pelt for the Master Craft fur Hat, Leggings and boots we need.
first off we went into the snow on a cat, dog and bear. After a non scientific time frame, randomly eating stuff the three of us did an inventory check......the wolf had the most pelt.

Lots of variables could of effected this test......the player on the wolf may of targeted better dinos for pelt. The guy on the bear is a smoker, he could of stopped for a sneaky ciggy!

Off this one test we built a blender in the snow area. a nice big box with 6 high level dire wolf in.
Then using Quetz we pick up and drop in mammoth and rhino!

I like that idea, grabbing a critter and letting the wolves do the work, saves a lot of time and risk running around the snow biomedical with a 3 pack of wolves looking for mammoths and accidently running into an alpha Rex. Ty for the input. Pretty brilliant actually.

[Spyrho]

Originally posted by brailleg:

Just perfect tamed a 120 direbear and honestly after almost 3 full weeks weeks of in game play time I'm kicking myself for not having gotten one sooner. It's just awesome in every way. I'm specifically curious as to weather it has any glaring faults, dies anyone have any problems with the bear? And how is it for gathering pelt?

There seems to be some discussion as to weather the wolf or Saber is better for pelt farming, does anyone have any hard input on that, and how does the bear fare as far as pelt farming? Average? Thanks in advance.

Wolves and Sabertouth are for Pelt farm Direbears good for berries and mostly fiber

[Grimbah]

ok how did you tame a direbear!? i'm a solo player so i don't learn much.

[Marius]

Originally posted by Grimbah:

ok how did you tame a direbear!? i'm a solo player so i don't learn much.

I haven't tamed one yet myself but I'd say the easiest and safest way would be to grab it with a quetzal and drop it in a taming pen, then tranq it in safety. The next safest & easiest would be to use yourself as bait and lure one into a taming pen, then tranq.

Of course you could always find a nice high rock or cliff to shoot from while tranqing. Or even carry a few pillars, a ceiling, and some ladders with you to make a quick & dirty taming stand. Just run 4-5 pillars up, top it with a ceiling tile, and add ladders to climb up. Just make sure to protect your tame with wall/spike walls while it's taming.