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Tips & Strategies

What are tips for dire bear? Tips and strategies for dire bear in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Bear traps won’t work so build like a stone trap from it
Unless you have a very powerful character/mount, I would suggest to keep a good distance away from these magnificent beasts. They have a surprisingly small aggro range, but their melee damage is IMMENSE, and can kill even high level mounts with relative ease. It is honestly best to just leave them alone, as they don't even give that many resources when you harvest them, and you can easily lose an extremely valuable tame. Take it from me: I've lost two amazing wolves to these beasts, once from inexperience, once from being unable to escape due to having no stamina.
Prim +. Try using honey for a super quick tame
So first i have done doungen and get the 300 level direbear imprint and after that I review that and go for sleep........for 0 food level and after that knock him put some smoothing balm or food(meet or honey) i tamed with meet it give 149 level boost and i feed poten dust , it gives around 60 level instant boost.
Now my dire bear have 1100 melee damage and 15000 heath and 265 movement speed.
I done in casual + hard mode so I get 300level dire bear i recommend as take high level dino.
The best thing I've ever had despite owning nine gigas they collect about 10k fiver in under a minute. They are also amazing for berries and meat. My 150 kibble tame bear could has taken 4 rexes on at once and barely lost 1k health they can 1 hit carnos with high mellee (400-500) and are perfect for taming as can keep u warm in cold and gather berries and meat .They can reach high speeds (quicker then a giga) so u can deliver prime to a tame easy as well. They also have about 1k weight at high levels so u can carry a lot on u.
Build a stone trap use 1 foundation 1 doorframe and 3 walls. Place large bear trap on foundation. Shoot bear with dart and start running. It will get into the box but can't escape giving you enough time to place a wall on the other end. Then start tranqing. Make sure to put up spike walls around you
When I first saw a dire bear I thought I saw Yogi Bear! But Togo ended up killing my anyklo but I did tame it (took me a while) and started building a grave for my anyklo ''The Hulk''. Up if you want to tame Yogi as well
It’s so easy just knock it out with a bear trap🙄🙄
DO NOT underestimate its speed it will go faster than a parasaur if mad
I took my lv200 to the dead island I did have to force feed after being ambushed by 2 lv150 and a lv75 and I did encounter a lv90 alpha rapter but they have decent oxygen so I just out swam it. Other than that it was good
If you are like me and you struggle to tame one in primitive plus here is my advice for you! :) Be sure to have a magnifying glass in your hotbar and watch it's health closely and keep track of how much damage you do per hit. once it gets really bloody wait 10 seconds and then shoot again. Be sure to keep repeating this method and you will have yourself a fluffy battle companion!
Dire Bears are honestly my favorite Dino in ark. It is all around amazing for anything you need. It can get meat, prime meat, berries, and even fiber. It's good for fights due to the amazing amounts of damage it can do. This thing is also great for transporting over long distances because of how extremely fast it is. I have about 10 Dire Bears because of how helpful they are to me as my tribe. This is a must have
Always wait in between your tranquilizer dart shots. The Dire Bear is extremely easy to kill while trying to tame.
Does anyone know if honey heals direbears like nameless venom does with rock drakes? Like if so
Be careful they live in the redwood forest and that place is dangerous!
Why doesn’t the normal bear trap work? I thought it was meant for bears but they don’t work for bears 🤷