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Is it just me or the one in Caelid, when you get out from the Siofra Well, is a little different? It really feels like that one was tweaked to be 0.5 faster.

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if dangerous why friend sha-AUGH

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Maybe i’ve just fought rajang too many times in MHW but this dude was easy asf. Used square off on the +4 starting broadsword. That art of war is lowkey busted- does good damage and amazing stance damage. Focus on his arm movements, those will tell you when to roll into him. You can get a heavy Square Off on most of his openings, and you just need 3-4 for a crit.

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I found runebears to be pretty ****ing difficult until I was told to start using charged heavies on them to break their stance and then riposte them. This seems like extremely stupid advice when you hear it, because you can probably recall many times where it feels like you barely have enough time to do regular R1s between their attacks, but then I actually tried to do it out of desperation (while also staying near their crotch at all times) and... my god. I am a certified bear hunter now. And honestly, I feel like this entire time Miyazaki was on his knees begging to us to try this because the goddamn Axe talisman is guarded by a runebear as a fairly big hint. Nowadays, I not only rarely die to them, I often only have to use 1, maybe 2 flask charges.

To be fair, I think the sudden charge attack they can do is bordering on unfair - and gives me flashbacks to Oceiros in DS3 - and also the riposte can sometimes be a little difficult to actually execute because they don't stay down long and you tend to fight them in uneven terrain in the wilderness. But even the Snowfields bear no longer fills me with dread to fight... if only there was a point to doing so.

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Back in my prime I was able to take out all 3 at the pond back in Limgrave earlier than I ever thought I was capable of doing. Now I'm afraid that when I start playing when Shadow releases I'm going to suffer trying to do so again, amongst many others of this games ridiculously made enemies.

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And what haunts me is that in all the faces of all the bears I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature. To me, there is no such thing as a secret world of the bears. And this blank stare speaks only of a half-bored interest in food.

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Stay really close to their crotch area, only time they can hit you is with pounce or aoe if you roll correctly

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Consecrated SnowField RunBears are the worst, AOE freezing mist they do just makes things worse and i have 40 END on a Shield/Spear build w/ Greatshield Talisman and consumes etc. geez

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One of the actual Elden Lords because wtf the hp and dmg.

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These things are more terrifying than actual dragons.

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Imagine a destined death rune bear for the dlc

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Winnie the pooh...

Winnie the pooh... stealing your runes, being tanky, waiting for you. ( thanks to patches)

Winnie the pooh...

Winnie the pooh...

I hate all of them and so do you.

(Speciale thanks to the one bear who guards the poise talisman)

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PTSD flashback to giant cats in ds1

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Nasty things but somehow more tolerable than those anchor shark giants from Bloodborne

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Love the attack they do when they turn around, look at you, AND BECOMES A ****ING TORPEDO!!!

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Overstated and unfun to fight,esp the one in dragonbarrow cave

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god i hate these things, somehow i find malenia easier than them..

for anyone struggling, get a shortbow or black bow and cover it in rot arrows, then you can just block. attack recovery is long enough to regain some stamina before the next attack. yes, even doing this, i find malenia easier. the damn things are too fast!

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by far the absolute worst monster. Harder than most endgames bosses

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The Grafted Dragon is very good against Runbears.

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Steel-Wire Torch and summon Wandering Noble Ashes (they have torches too!)

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I'll never complain about the skyrim bears again

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Cool I love this character I freaking love bears

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Bad times agead when you stumble upon this boss so early in the game as an astrologer. There's no path back without losing your runes so you're screwed until you finally beat this thing that's randomly resistant to magic damage.

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Ngl this dude is easier than his “lesser” cousin in Dragonbarrow cave

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man I hate these things, they might not hit too hard but they have a ludicrous amount of health.

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if you aren't scared when you see a giant hulking bear charging at you at 50 mph you are braver than Godfrey.

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Easy when you figure them out

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They seem to be extremely vulnerable to sleep, one special attack from Sword of St. Trina puts them down instantly

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These are among the enemies in the game where strategies to kill em feels more like cheesing. Going standard melee combat is just tedious and ridiculously punishing. Som of their attacks have nearly no wind up and shreds you. They turn on a dime in a split second and have more HP than a some of bosses. Say things like "these aren't hard" etc is just cocky and silly imo. Yes i can take em head on but im not having fun trying to land 100 swings on a guy that kills me in 2 and leaves no breathing room. Though FROM has a knack for making even late game builds never feeling too OP. I guess you could call em a hubris check. A slap to the face to remind you ya aint so tough after all.

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Kill Irina`s father Edgar at Castle Morne, he is anyway mad and redundant, but has a good weapon for this fight.

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THIS GUY IS SO ****ING COOL LAST TIME WE GOT A BEER TOGETHER HE SELF-CANNIBALIZED HIMSELF TO DEATH!

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I get why people hate them but I honestly had no issue with them unless my camera bugs out when locking on. Grossly over exaggerated saying these are hard and extremely reddit.

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Will killing him fail the Half-Wolf Quest?

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Goldy eyes on NG+7 with gold scarab and gold fowl foot gives 59,471 runes.

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Having over 3000 health and being that much of a c**t is obviously a big f**k you from the devs. The so called lesser rune bears are not much better.

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2-3 sleep arrows or bolts and He is sleepin and open for a crit. Super easy now to kill em

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there’s one of these in the consecrated snowfield that drops a larval tear and has more hp than malekith, what a travesty

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This guy and his "lesser" cousins have another name: mother****ers.

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I swear whenever I see a Runebear I hear a Wrestling gong ring somewhere and the words 'LETS GET READY TO RUMBLE!" before getting bodied in a second.

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My strategy for killing runebears is always the same. "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of Candy Land?"

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Envoy Long Horn +10 - 2 bubble blasts, then smash his face in with the critical strike. Easy peasy dead for the ones out in the world. (Stand in his crotch when you bubble blast)

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They have Oceiros charge. Need I say anything more?

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i ended up killing him using the basic torch kale sells you, didn't have a slash weapon and lone wolves were useful at drawing aggro for half the fight. turns out even a torch is a good weapon to kill them.

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Haha bear hug.

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So this is the elden ring equivalent to the Deer from Etrian Odyssey cool

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Horrible enemy. It can change ****ing direction mid leap and come down on you every time. And the one in Caelid by the well only gives 1900 runes...that's such bullshit

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bullshit how its so big in the cave, did it in like 5 tries but still lame, like howd it even get in there??

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classic big ass enemy in tiny room just to have it awkwardly bounce off the walls lol. CLASSIC

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They don't drop anything, yet they will drop you.

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Even soldier of god, rick has to use 1% of his power to kill one of these

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CAN MALENIA SOLO THIS ?

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Did anyone else get raped by this bear?

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Did anyone else get raped by this bear?

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The true final boss. And they're all over the Lands Between.

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Should be the final boss of the game. Radagon and elden beast too easy.

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I summoned a phantom to help me with this after it merc'd me the first time I stumbled into his cave. Only for the bear to fall through the ground at about 60-70% hp and die

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Man freddy really let himself go after WW2

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You know you're in for a rough game when a brown bear is the easiest and smallest bear in the game to fight

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That damn charge has little to no windup and it always gets me.

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Had this one glitch through the floor on critical hit during co-op, and dying.

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I swear bruh these dudes are tankier than Godfrey, lmao.

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**** that bear in the concecreated snow fields, it attacks faster than you can stand up after being hit once and you can't summon any help while it's more of a bullet sponge than most bosses

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this isnt a field boss it is located inside a dumgeon and is walled off by fog

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should’ve made these guys available as a summon

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they really aren’t worth the effort unless you enjoy fighting them for some reason, most of them in the world don’t drop jack s-

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For Consecrated Snowfield:

Most of the Runebears are in a cave or something similar and allow you to use ranged attacks and status effects to take them down. However, the one in Consecrated Snowfield leaves you no option but to go toe to toe or hit and run while mounted. I opted for the toe to toe fight on my bandit and used the following method: I used Rot Breath to quickly dispatch the 3 pilgrims (one of which spawns the Runebear). Once the Runebear spawns I hit him with a blast of Rot Breath. I then make use of the Flame of the Redmanes to break his guard. On the first break I hit him with the second blast of Rot Breath causing him to become afflicted. The rest of the fight is rolling under his belly and out between his hindlegs hitting him with the Flame of the Redmanes - scoring critical hits every 2 blasts. This was definitely a tough fight but very rewarding in the end.

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I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure I had a Runebear wavedash at me to land their grapple. Like actually scoot without motion 5-6 extra meters.

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The most annoying thing about Runebears is the attack where they abrutly charge at you and if you're behind or to the side of them, they instantly rotate before they charge at you. That nonsense is so god damn fast that I've yet to consistently dodge it and the worst is when they decide to spam that attack back to back. Once had a Runebear do that FOUR TIMES IN A ROW.

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I swear this thing has like 12000 hp

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I was fighting the Runebear in Earthbore Cave, and it grabbed me so I spammed buttons to get out of it, and I did. When I did however, the bear fell through the floor and died from being out of bounds. I don't know if this is a glitch that could work every time but it worked pretty well for me.

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Is there a page on the enemies that randomly turn into rune bears? I've run into two, one near the Agheel Lake South grace and one in the blizzard section of the consecrated snowfield. The second one was half buried in the snow, with some buddies trying to dig him out.

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Ok, whoever put the strategy to fight Runebears below, thank you!

Here's what I did with the one in the Consecrated Snowfield: Get in CLOSE. Like under him and then roll around to behind him as he stands up to do the pounce attack. I got hit with his charge, but he missed with every other attack.

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Not sure if it's just me, but on PS5, every single time I get grabbed by a runebear and mash out of it, they fall through the floor. This seems to be 100% consistent, even on relatively flat ground. In certain areas they even fall through onto another floor below, and remain there. You can even drop them into underground tombs if they are underneath.

It got to the point that my way of fighting runebears is to just make sure there'd be nothing underneath the terrain except the killplane, then let them grab me so I can mash out of it and have them fall.

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Runebear's can just piss off tbh, they are so annoying to fight, I know some people will find them easier to beat but they are just generally bullshit of a mob, super fast, huge hitboxes, does more damage to me than a boss does....Bloody sadistics are the people who work for From Software xD

P.S. I love the game but god damn some of the enemies suck ass to fight xD

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My strategy for killing runebears is always the same. Here are the steps

1. physick
2. boiled crab
3. mount torrent (if available)
4. frostbite
5. scarlet rot
6. fire
7. cowardly avoid relentless attacks through careful positioning and well-timed sprints on Torrent
8. victory

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**** Runebears...**** them all

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I dont understand this thing. Faster than horse, even if you are far his scream has huge rablnhe and pulls you in. Even if you dodge 2 attacks he relentlessly follows up, gives no opening to heal or riposte. Only times i beat this monster was cheesing it from some place he cant reach.

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I read somewhere that the wolfman Blythe or whatever no longer speaks to you and is hostile if you kill runebears. Is there an exception for this boss?

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Highly recommend fighting these on horseback when you can. High speed keeps you away from most of his high damage attacks

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is it just me or is the runebear disguised that drops a larva tear in concentrated snowfield lower fps than anything else lmfao. I was trying to get the larval tear from it then when I fought it I noticed it was in like 10-20 fps while every5hing else was in 60. When he did that hug grab attack I could clearly see the difference lmfao.

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This things gonna make me hate bears in general.

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Stay under it, get in as many hits as you can, and dodge towards its back if it stands up on its hind legs. The charge attack is borderline un-dodgeable, so always be prepared to heal a few times, but it rarely charges if you're close.

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ok... can we talk about these bears... the one in the consecrated snowfield. Whoever designed that encounter genuinely hates people. There's fun challenging, and then there's this. Stun locking nonsense.

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Runebears are EXTREMELY weak to sleep effects. I've tested on multiple bears, 2-3 Arrows of St Trina will put them to sleep and allow for a critical hit.

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I would have been more intimidated if the final Boss was a bear, two dogs, and a Stormhawk. Truly the deadliest of enemies

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lmao?

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dung

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Don't even try using bleed agaisnt him
I tried with great stars and I had to switch to greatsword

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One in limgrave dropped a larval tear
I am incredibly surprised

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cancer

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"miniboss"

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very weak to sleep! three light attacks from st trina ss put him out cold for me

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Lone wolf ashes got taken out pretty quick for me but the banished lord engvall was an absolute tank and served as just enough distraction to get a good balance of ranged attacks to compliment the melee. Rolling into the attacks made all the difference as well because you can find a spot under/close to him where his huge attacks won’t affect you as much.

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Lone wolf ashes got taken out pretty quick for me but the banished lord engvall was an absolute tank and served as just enough distraction to get a good balance of ranged attacks to compliment the melee. Rolling into the attacks made all the difference as well because you can find a spot under/close to him where his huge attacks won’t affect you as much.

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Just roll trough his attacks!
He clawswipes twice!
plenty of openings especially after his "bear hug" attack missed!
Dash attack is annoying but dodgable with some training and gives you time to heal afterwards!

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Several non-boss instances exist out in the wild. I've found at least one near the minor Erdtree in Liurna, and I seem to recall seeing another one in the swamp near there as well.

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I had some luck using Flames of the Redmanes. Poise broke momma bear in 2-3 hits of the weapon art.

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great tip about rolling forward and staying underneath him, I was unable to summon spirits - I had plenty of FP.

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great tip about rolling forward and staying underneath him, I was unable to summon spirits - I had plenty of FP.

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Nobody seems to have mentioned in yet, but as of the most recent patch (1.03.1), there is a glitch with virtually every Runebear I've fought. If you get caught in its grab and you button mash out in order to take less damage, you'll pop out and he'll fall through the ground and fall into the killbox below the world. This has happened on almost every bear I've fought in the game since the most recent patch. I only figured this out because I'm terrible at dodging his grab. Don't know if it works on the dungeon boss in Earthbore, since I beat that dungeon before the patch.

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