Please just slide jump, you're immune to grabs for 90% of the slide animation. Stop walking straight into biter's open arms. You even regen combat stamina during slide jump.
#For those struggling with biter grabs:
icy stone
lethal blaze
idk it seems they grab alot more then in previous games
icy stone
They grab about as often as they did in DL1, but DL1 had different methods to deal with them. Attacking them out of grab is no longer an option, jumps aren't as consistent of a counter as DL1. The only truly broken thing about grabs in TB is that they have priority over our animations, and can grab us literally milliseconds after we chop off a limb.
For The Beast, the main methods of countering grabs is to:
Slide (best method)
Jump (can get you scratched still, and only avoids part of the grab animation if you aren't jumping away)
Windmill (can't be grabbed during the animation, but can easily be scratched to death if you aren't careful)
Dodge away (very effective, but costs stamina and loses aggression).