Only using 4 skills for way of the bear

[Blastaz]

I've seen a few people say that you should only take 4 skills (boxing punch, triple punch, wreck 'em & Exhauster) with way of the bear and opening up the 5th slot actually makes your build worse.

But you do have an extra offensive passive in your skill set. If you open up the 5th slot you would just add this to the mix, I don't see how this would make your build worse. Does it reduce the chance that your other offensive passives won't proc?

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I think yes, I tried to add Tormentor Strikes on 5th slot and it reduced my damage

[Blastaz]

I'd be interested to hear the maths behind how it reduces your damage given that none of your other boost skills actually increase your damage in the first place...

[Goblin King]

Would adding block, or a defensive passive, really make the build worse?

[Raverbasher]

Originally posted by Guillaume:

Would adding block, or a defensive passive, really make the build worse?

If you have a dodge skill equipped it seems to ruin the chance of Triple Punch procing. With no dodge there's still an inherent chance of dodging, but you're also more likely to string your punches together for more damage. Having a dodge or block skill totally ruins the chance of Triple Punch going off.

Wouldn't Beef Hammer be ok though? It doesn't detract from anything and all the hits have a chance to proc it and cause extra stamina damage.

[Fredinator]

Well I opend a fifth slot and suddenly I get absolutely wrecked. As soon as you do that the stamina balance goes for the worse and I have no way of preventing that since the game does not let you use only 4 skills and almost every other thing uses stamina. The battle system is so stupid it uses all your stamina to spam the equipped skills and you cant increase your stamina maximum so I get out of stamina at 3/4 round after that its getting knocked down again and again until loose or win.

[metalfenix]

For the fifth slot ... in that build I normally use closeline , for turtle users I use powerful uppercut and tiger users, Elblow. I know they interrupt the triple punch proc but hey, it gets the job done.