I have been defending bears a lot these days and finally broke down and made a bird this weekend to see what the fuss was all about. I must admit that the game-play is much faster and must confess to thinking "here we go I got to help the bear again stomping away". I now agree that the bears although strong and fun to play with are complete dead weight to other classes. I just kept having to slow down and even turn around to help the bear running after enemies all over the place never being able to connect a hit.

Quite a disappointment really.