I was out looking for one when I saw a 280 just walking around in the swamp so I went and made a trap then I lured it over to get it in but it kept going off so I got impatient and hit it with my argy so it got insane and kept biting my argy while i lured it, By the time it got trapped My argy was at three quarters health, I started tranqing it out when suddenly I relished My longneck was almost broken so I had to fix it then come back and start tranqing it again. Eventually I got all 17 thousand torpor in that bear and honey tamed it with a 10x soothing balm. My bear has 10k health and does around 400 damage after leveling up a bit. I even found a lvl300 and lvl30 alpha Rex really close together so I killed the lvl30 with my sword on my bear and he almost died cause he was at half health before fighting. Dire bears are great for people in need of fiber gatherers.