No, you still can. There is an explanation about it buried in the pet guide thread in community works.
Basically the method you heard of, of having one person draw the bear out of aggro range and far away while the other person is casting their charm, is the way it's done. The problem is, that the timing has to be absolutely perfect and is tedious as all heck. If I recall correctly, when Epinephrine and Sol (our guildmate) did it, it took them a half an hour of failed attempts before they finally managed to pull it off, and that was when Sol already had done it before and thus knew what to do. It really is a timing nightmare.
Oh what the heck, I'll just grab the stuff from the thread.
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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.
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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
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http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...t=89491&page=6
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.
cant wait for the cranes in factions!