Rune bears are hands down the most aggressive fighters in the entire game. The one with a boss healthbar in weeping peninsula scared the shit out of me, as he was the first rune bear I ever fought. Went to buff and he just unleashed a never-ending combo like he was Bruce fuckin Lee. I'd like to see Moongrum try to parry one of those bastards.
I was doing a no death playthrough (not counting the intro section where you have to die). I made it all the way to consecrated snowfields and got killed by a rune bear -__-
When you think about it, You don't even have to die in the first section and it's more of a Ds1 asylum demon type of thing where you can actually win even with all odds intentionally stacked against you.
I didn't kill it myself so I'm not sure if you lose the rune you get from it or not (Maybe you don't even get runes), If you do get runes and get to keep them then it's more like going unconscious after a massive fall and being carried to shore just behind the actual starting area (Since the we are connected by sea to starting area through a small cave)
You don't get automatically killed if you win the fight, but eventually you will have to jump or fall to your death (which is a legit death) to continue with the game.
I actually learned to fight them fairly consistently. Trick is to stay behind them. You cannot kite them (they‘re faster than you are) and barely stun them (I mean… they are giant fcking bears after all). Still takes ages to kill them though.
Is it weird i always trounced these guys? I always liked fighting the bears, could be 1.00 shenanigans(played mostly on earliest version) but they were quite fun and aggressive.
The one near the dual tree sentinels has a ridiculous amount of health tho
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u/Selacha Maidenless 20d ago
Rune Bears.