Originally Posted by aigleborgne

Now, I know some people found a relatively easy way to charm one. I do not only know, but I saw their bear (although it could be a very old one, I don't think so)

One tell me that the bear anti-charm has a limited range.
Basically, have someone fight the bear while you stand at maximum charm range.
When the bear start his mauling attack, cast charm. By this time, the other person go away with the bear to avoid his anti-charm.

I have tried this many times, and each time, the bear still use his anti-charm spell. Did I miss something?

Originally Posted by Francis Demeules

I don't think for this

If you met these people in Post-Searing with bears. I'm sure at 100% they paid a run to go to Droks and go outside to Port Sledge to grab the Bear there.
You can get one in Southern Shiverpeaks anyway. I dont know the point to get one in pre-searing anyway when you meet Nente outside Ascalon in Post-Searing and tell you to bring a Melandru Stalker

Originally Posted by Epinephrine

The method used: We used a bait-monk. My guildmate (Sol, thank you so much for showing me!) made a monk; took about a half hour of trying. He would get the bear's attention and run away from me, and I would try to time my Charm Animal to the moment that they left charm range. Eventually I got one to take, and the bear ran out of range, tried to break the charm but failed. It seems like it's a matter of timing it exactly right, and maybe luck. He said he got his in 5 minutes, the monk/ranger helping him got his in about an hour, so it can be tricky to time. We tried timing it to the brutal mauling, to the attack animation to get him pulled along in mid-swipe, but I think it was just him leaving range as I activated. We used a monk as bait, as most critters seem to prefer beating up monks.

Originally Posted by Sol Silverglade

Hehe, like I said, I'm just glad it still works, and I'm not crazy

Given the difficulties we were having, I really was beginning to think that anet had modified Breaking Charm since last I'd tried.

For the curious, as Epi said, I tamed a presearing bear awhile back (after the patches that prevented hammer/knockdowns from being a viable charm option) in an identical manner.

Last night, the bear just stayed on me, and might have tried to break charm once. When I tamed mine, the bear was chasing monk out of range as I got charm started (since skills will resolve as long as they were initiated in range, even if the target bolts) and by the time the bear realized what I was up to, I was well outside of charmbreaker range. The bear proceeded to spam charmbreaker for several seconds, before the charm resolved, and I had a new pet...

I think I named him Bragging Rights at the time.

Anyway, like epi said, the key is getting your charm initiated just as the bear leaves range, and keep it moving (breaking charm range does appear to be a good bit larger than charm animal, so it does require some work.

Best setup is making sure you have a straight shot to run in.

I posted a screenshot on our guild forums last night that could be a good reference, spatially, if you look at the radar, but I don't have th link immediately available to repost. (If someone else finds it before I'm home from work today, feel free to post)


Finally, I actually had fraps running last night... But after half an hour of trial and error, I think I was worried that stopping for a second would cause the bear to beeline back to epi to break charm xD

....plus I was a little tired

Originally Posted by Jenosavel

Edit: Oh, and no, you can't get a bear in the Northern Shiverpeaks. There are none outside of Yaks. It's wolves you'll find there, and unfortunately ANet doesn't like to have more than one pet per area in Prophecies... You can, however, pop outside the southern entrance to Beacon's Perch to get an early peak at the South Shiverpeaks and thus a chance to tame a bear. If you rezone enough times, one will eventually come close enough to charm without fighting those high-level baddies.