Has anyone been brave enough to take on that bear in the tutorial level? I have started many games and I have never once tried to fight it, I always sneak past. One of the reasons is I tend to leave animals alone unless they attack me first and if I'm using illusion I normally use that. And the other is that I'm too sacred to tackle it.

the bear in helgen cave goes down with 3-4 shots of the bow. legendary/master

I ran up to it and bashed its head in with dual maces on my last character(legendary difficulty)

Looks like I'm a whimp.

It's a toned down version of the bears you usually encounter in the wilderness. Take it on, it's not going to kill you. Keep in mind however, that the other ones will kill you

That's a good point. Had I walked up to a bear outside of the starter dungeon with this tactic it would have mauled me

Yep, they have a tendency to do that on each and every occasion -maybe it's their way of having fun

its not only because you are level 1?

If you're talking about the bear under Helgen Keep, it's been toned down to let you kill it, if you mess up with the stealth kill/sneaking around, or if you don't want to do it the rogue's way and go head on against it.

Could you imagine a normal bear there on legendary? Holy crap.....time for Ralof to really show off those tanking skills

No thanks, I played http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/19281/?

That's funny, I've never just sneaked past it. Ever. Not in any of the thousands of hours I've played.

I stabbed it 4 times with an iron dagger on adept

I have killed it several times. In straight melee combat, by sneaky stabbing with a dagger and once I killed it with a bow. It's easy one to bring down.

You mean scared?

On topic: you learn something new everyday.

You just had to twist the knife, didn't you?

No I meant what I said. I am a sacred person and thus of a divine nature

Good one

It's a tutorial bear, so it has low health. All the enemies stay low level or have low health until the tutorial part (mostly until Ustengrav) is over.