>>1960030
Wooden shield, bronze axe, simply walk to the side and 90% of the bears attacks will whiff and you can punish. Pre-bronze axe weapons take forever to kill but still work.
>>1960149
Yeah bear armor is good and has replaced troll leather for me in progression, might try to farm out the new vile armor today to test that. Vertical combat changes are good because I havent whiffed an enemy while fighting on a slope once yet on this playthrough. Not touching trinkets til evasion mantle.