Dire bear tame?

[Oldmanslow1]

Where is the best place to shoot a dire bear. I'm using jouryman crossbow. I have killed 2 now shooting them in the head.

[Ganelon]

Correct me if I am wrong, but my observation is that there are only two locations for damage resist/multiplier:

1. Head
2. Not Head

Try Not Head.

[Oldmanslow1]

Making trank darts. I will try shooting in butt.

[Wazzamaniac]

Bears have a high torpor/hp ratio, therefore its recommended to use darts to avoid killing them, like gallis, dunkles and anglers

[Leeleilol]

Use only darts !

[Deadpool00012]

I tranqed out a 145 with a mixture of headshots and bodyshots yesterday with a normal crossbow doing 35 damage per shot. Try using a normal crossbow, journeyman does too much damage. I think I used around 50 arrows.

[rororoxor]

2 hours ago, Oldmanslow1 said:

Where is the best place to shoot a dire bear. I'm using jouryman crossbow. I have killed 2 now shooting them in the head.

Don't use an xbow at all, direbears have low health compared to torpor.

[DarthaNyan]

Put a couple of poison traps where you are tranqing them. Helps to build initial torpor without damage.

[Ep1cM0nk3y]

1 hour ago, Ganelon said:

Correct me if I am wrong, but my observation is that there are only two locations for damage resist/multiplier:

1. Head
2. Not Head

Try Not Head.

Bears don't have head damage multipliers.. They have low health to torpor ratio.. I, personally, use a magnifying glass and a taming pen, they'll start running when they get torpored up a bit,  I run up behind them and check the torpor/health at this point to visually see how much damage and how much torpor i am doing (their health gains faster than their torpor drops so you can feasibly stay ahead). I space my shots 4 to 5 seconds apart, narco traps to get an initial jump on the torpor also help.