Agreed. At first I was feeling like it was really underwhelming but stuck with it and didn’t want to disown it only after 2 hours. I’m glad I didn’t because this game has gotten really fun and it was on me personally. I wasn’t using all the mechanics or moves I could which makes the game much more fun. Glad I stuck around
It’s an amazing game with great features! I was a huge fan of shadow of Mordor and just got back into playing Shadow of War. It has all the best mechanics of assassins creed mixed with the pure awesomeness of the LOTR universe. Anyone still looking to play this game a few years after launch will definitely enjoy the experience.
The game's really good, I've beaten it several times at this point. It didn't do so well on launch due to bugs and the controversial monetization it had for a single player game.
There is one thing the Overlord is very good at. A Overlord will NEVER betray you. So if you have a guy you like, but his blood brother is in your way, promote your guy to Overlord, and kill the Bloodbrother. A Overlord won't care. And yes, I tried this some time ago. Sooo, there is a chance that has changed, but I don't see why. Warchiefs are also less likely to betray you, not impossible just less likely. Kill a warchiefs blood brother, he will betray you. So basically, the guy you DON'T want to lose, put as Overlord, if you lose a fort he will be taken hostage, but you can easily save him. And other guys you like as warchiefs.
Mohammed Naseer Because they always ends up saving me when I least need it. And they kill of cool/useful uruks! Like on my last save, I went to die to "The Warlock" orc because he always becomes a Necromancer at higher lvls. But he was like lvl 13 or something, I was like 40. So I wanted to give him a boost before I dominated him. Aaaaand a random orc came and saved me and killed him! I like having Necromancer orcs!
You missed one important fact that helps especially with the shadow wars. You should place body guards on your warchiefs or else any orc you have that isn't a war chief won't help defend. Having 6 lvl 55+ warchiefs with 3-4 body guards each dominates any attacking orcs.
Factor Fitness bodyguards of your orcs don’t appear at all when you’re attacking since the attacking orcs don’t have to be warchiefs, so it’s be pretty weird having a captain be the bodyguard of another captain
I just got Shadow of War a few days ago and I absolutely love it. I’m glad I watched this video because I have yet to gain the ability to dominate captains (I spend far too much time hunting down regular captains for fun), and so it’s good to know about the Overlord and Warchief drawbacks when it comes to taking and defending strongholds.
@@defaltcm I'm level 22 right now and I don't have xp boost in my garrison. Currently I on the mission where I need to recruit captains. Eventually will this get unlocked?
@@cipherphinx honestly I cant remember as its been ages try opening a chest or Google it because I generally cannot remember when or how you get them sorry but I assume you will yes. Leveling shouldn't be too hard anyways.
The best way to get strong orcs is in the fight pits. Even if you're orc loses you can just recruit the orc that won and repeat the same process. Btw your orcs will never get a higher level than you at any case. P.s. Don't just kill lengendary orc for thier gear. They can actually be unstoppable. It just depends on its stats if he has trash stats then you can kill him. I hope this helped
This is the first vid I've ever watched of yours and I definitely noticed that you were effortless with the flow of the video from tip to tip and e plaining each tip, even before you mentioned that ppl had requested less of a robotic delivery from you. You nailed it, well done.
You need to update this or make a new one especially now with the market being gone and other changes and now that so many people have bought the game recently on PSN for like 15 dollars with all the DLC’s
You mean they bought the game for 15 dollars or you mean they bought the dlcs for 15 dollars? cause i wanna buy the defenetive edition and it's 60 dollars on psn
jack gamer Shadow of war was on sale on psn for 8.99 or something close to that, but that was the base game, I bought the definitive edition which was also on sale for $15, but that sale ended already so now it’s back up to its original price
Michael Scarpo I found this video when I didn’t really need it, sure I’m in the shadow wars phase but I can’t move my overlord from his spot and it doesn’t really matter since I’ve reached max level by just ignoring the siege part and upgrading my guys, you can’t Move the overlord But you can train him, a lot
@@wormybobcat3706 I'm on the siedge part and for some reason Nurnea always takes me adges and I keep dieing. Got any fortress defence tips? I've got what I think is the best combo on but it clearly isn't.
@@blacklegbeastro5295 wait what was the video about again? Sorry mate but you came knocking on the wrong door I haven’t touched that game for months now
I will never buy a war chest. It just ruins the experience for me. The strength of this game is the relationships it creates with captains, making the feel real in a world that feels real but when orcs become ordinary loot doesn't ruin the connection with them? War chest just make the game less fun. The best experience possible with SoW is when not using the market at all.
Silver chest are okay I only use them for level ups or buffs and the odd super cool captain this one has less of a bond with captains than the first to me so I don't mind .
Well be happy they got rid of them hence the reason i started playing again on nemsis difficulty definitely better then being able to have every orc legendary was too easy before
I got betrayed doing an experiment. I had a Blood Brother as my bodyguard and went after the other brother...I was just wondering what would happen....It seemed my bodyguard mainly ignored his brother and focused on the grunts...So I had more time to get to his brother. Then after I won he betrayed me...But I was surprised he didn't betray me as soon as I started fighting his brother. I just wanted to see what would happen.
Mike Workman lol I sent my orc to kill his blood brother; when they clashed he said "the bright Lords making me do this, I'll be sure to make your death quick" Then I got betrayed by both
Bought this game yesterday at 10am. Played it after download at 330pm. Played all the way until 230am today. So addicting and I got it for $12 from the Playstation store. I love this game! Thank you for the video!
I am so suprised about how small amount of subs you have since how well structured this video was O_O. Either way the best top 5 tips for shadow of war for sure! Pretty much answered everything I wished for! :)
Greatest advanced tips I've seen so far! Thanks for sharing. Wish I would have found this before deploying some of my Legendary followers just to test out the nemesis system...lol.
Shadow of War is so much better than Shadow of Mordor. Both games have similar fighting styles but that is about it. Shadow of War is much, much better, and sometimes I still play it tho I already played it like 200h + when Shadow of Mordor becomes repetitive very fast. Still, good video ;)
To recruit a blood brother of a follower, let them kill eachother. At the last moment, rush in and dominate. Example Hork: bla bla u my bro but order u die Bork: bla bla that dude trick u *Insert footage of fight* Rush in, burn his face Bork: aY wE hAvE tHe SaMe JoB, bRoThEr :D Hork: :D
No, this what you do, whoop 1 brothers ass and possess him and command him to leave so he won't witness you whoopin his blood brother and betray you, than after getting the other brother low enough send him away too
Very helpful video. I bought and played Shadow of Mordor when it came out and was unable to complete the game. I bought this game and totally love it. I got to my second Boss fight and the guy was immune to all of my weapons and tactics in the throne room. now I have a better idea about how to handle it. Thanks alot.
I'm currently downloading Shadow of War since it's free on PS Plus. I played SoW back in 2019 & I remember how excellent of a game it was. The nemesis system is like nothing I've ever seen in a game.
When I bought my PS4 Pro the shop gave me Shadow of War right away as promotion I haven't play until I watch Rings of Power. That series motivated me to play both Shadow Saga plus Shadow of Mordor just discounted so I bought it right away and play the game chronologically.
I think the devs have said that Talion's ring/gem bonuses DON'T apply to the fight pits, as you are not in the fight with them. Also, some of those bonuses apply only to grunts, not captains.
Thank you so much for this video, just got the game at the start of 2019 Jan 1, these tips all seem valid still (minus market), thanks for the great video 👍
New players if you are reading this half of this video is out of date. Reasons being the online store for the game at some point they removed war chests and gold currency meaning you can no longer buy bonuses and orcs from the store the only remaining in game currency is mierien mostly because without it you can't upgrade your army and your fort so they kept that. Also the maximum level cap is 80 now.
@luxas Well there is alot that I know about some of it most veteran players know about and even most veterans are still learning about some of these tricks. Lesson 1. Always take advantage of experience bonuses. Always have the best possible wealth gems equipped to your armor and cloak if you have 2 perfect wealth gems equipped you will get a 30% experience bonus but if you haven't already done this sign up with that thing in the main menu I think it's called WB Play if you sign in with the email used for your account it will give you a permenant 3% exp bonus totaling the experience bonus to 33% believe me this makes a huge difference. I max leveled in 1 month mostly because I played on separate times so for you I you played 24/7 every so many days you will probably max in less then 3 weeks. Lesson 2. Don't Spend Mierrien on uruk levels unless absolutely necessary. If you Want to level up uruks to your level fast if said uruk is already an enemy and you want him let him kill you one time it will instantly level him up to the amount of levels that your currently at but please note this also may make them 1 to 2 levels higher then you this can be scary if your level 80 because anything past level 80 can instant kill you so if you can wear him down till your able to shame him. Lesson 3. If your luck own that great in the fightpits close the application before your uruk dies this will save your uruk from dieing this also works in the online fightpits so if you want to farm legendary uruks this may be the fastest way but it's the most painful and boring method because I have had one of my uruks nearly lose 20 times because of legendary uruks he is currently facing. Also please note legendary uruks and ologs have higher chances of surviving most difficult battles. Lesson 3. This one is a common answer alot of people know. Always invest in legendary Uruks and ologs if you want to get your entire army legendary invest in ether the online fightpits or this or you could start farming offline fightpits with your strongest uruk/olog yes you reduce your chances of getting good uruks but you will be able to farm mierien because as soon as an enemy uruk dies he drops gear you should scrap any gear you get this is faster then finding treasure uruks out in the field and it gives you an average 400 to 900 mierien per gear based on how rare the gear is. Legendary gear I only ever recommend scrapping if you have spare copies of your gear so if you get a new copies of your legendary gear only keep it if it's level is higher then your legendary gear. Then scrap your old legendary gear if you do this it will make anywhere from 1500 to 2000 mierien. If possible invest in the marauder tribe and get the raiders armor from the Marauder uruks and ologs. The raiders armor not only helps you get mierien at a much faster rate then scraping gear it also boosts the amount of damage you will do for every 1 mierien you pick up so 10 mierien would boost your weapon by 10 damage and at my level and weapons being the same level if not better I actually tested this theory by the way. I found a slave spawn glitch in a world so I was sitting there killing uruks and farming mierien anyway a treasure olog spawned so I killed it then picked up the mierien while I had the full set of raider armor on I 1 hit killed slaves and ologs alike. So I spawned my graug to test how much damage it would do and to my shock I killed my graug in 4 hits with just my sword. I know this armor is ungodly overpowered. So I highly recommend investing in getting the full set of this armor. Lesson 4. Take advantage of the lessons of trial and error meaning if your fighting an uruk that is very very hard to kill or capture that uruk try everything you can ever possibly think of like if he is frost proof but not fire proof use fire but if he is immune to virtually everything accept arrows then use arrows. Also I have learned that if you use an ability called shadow pull use it often on enemy's who don't have Ranged proof. This can some times glitch and might work on them anyway. Lesson 5. Pay attention to the movement patterns of each tribe and class this will help you avoid the more scary moves each uruk will throw at you. Lesson 5. Don't die too often if you die multiple times in the same region it may result in one of your uruks or ologs to betray you because of not wanting to serve a weak leader I had this happen to me once and I never let my self be defeated in fights ever again. Lesson 6. Always make sure you don't have a full army in your region. Meaning Don't have too many branded orcs in the same place as this will trigger a rebellion encounter and believe me this is something you really don't want to happen as it will happen at the worst possible time like if your in the middle of a tough fight against an enemy that is hard to kill. The reason is because a rebellion van be anything from 1 to 4 uruks and ologs betraying you at the same time turning that 1v1 fight into a 1v4-5 fight which isn't pretty. If this happens Run! then try to isolate the weakest members of the rebellion then brand them or shame them depending on if they have the iron will trait. Do this with shadow pull like I said before it helps make sure you have a 1v1 fight without having to fight an army of orc cannon fodder. Lesson 7. Don't Kill Uruks/Ologs that betray you it is possible to save them. If 5hey have the "Iron Will" trait then shame them then find them and check there stats and if they still have that trait then make sure to keep shaming them until that stat is gone once it is gone ether brand them or let them kill you then brand them after their level matched yours. Lesson 8. Beware of Shaming. Shaming though useful in capturing an enemy or if you want a weak uruk for a fightpit you want to lose to make an uruk spawn in your world can also backfire. There is a small chance the uruk/olog will turn into a maniac. This is pretty rare even with the ability to increase how many levels they lose when shamed but it slightly increases the chance they turn into a maniac. Maniacs have a huge damage boost and defence boost. And they attack more frequently meaning it reduces the time it takes for them to attack after they already swung there weapon. For example it normally takes 1 to 2 seconds for a normal uruk captain to strike before waiting another 2 or so seconds but when enraged they only take half that amount of time for attacks so they will strike one after another in a rapid combo of normal and special attacks. This can be scary when against enemy's like hunters or Assasins or berserkers the same can be said for ologs. Lesson 9. Don't use enraged by everything in your fort defence when they are assigned to guard your overlord there is a huge chance they will start attacking your own overlord or bodyguards when enraged this won't be much of a problem if they are body guards of warchiefs so if the enemy and there army reach a checkpoint and if he gets enraged he won't attack his allies as much because of having plenty of enemy's to swing at. Lesson 10. Don't use just any uruk as an overlord. The reason being a common strategy I and many veteran players use is using Shadow pull to isolate the overlord from his body guards. What I recommend is using Ologs as they are too big for shadow pull to work that or use assassins as the overlord as they commonly have he arrow proof trait. Lesson 11. If you want to win alot in siege defence against players use Assasins often more preferably Arrow proof Assasins. Assasins are very Very hard to kill. And they may make the attacker lose a few of his uruks and ologs as he won't be able to get close enough to revive them without being insta-killed. That and Assasins ruin the purpose of having extra chances/lives as it takes only 1 chance for an Assasin to kill a player as they always have the "No Chance" Trait. I actually have an all Assasin dark tribe fort at the moment and as far as I have had it no one has ever challenged my fort ever. One last thing about this. Assasins are also great for stalling the enemy as they won't be able to get silver even if they do some how win. Believe me this type of army always makes you want to pull your hair out after fighting it. Lesson 12. Don't assign bodyguards who get enraged at the sight of a rival or if they also have the trait for fleeing at the site of certain uruks this will always result in losing ether the warchief or the body guard. As with the enraged by rival if the rival is your warchief you assigned him to he will kill that warchief. Lesson 13. Send uruks to the garrison if they have the enraged by rival trait as if there rival is in your army he will kill the rival both in siege and in open world because while they are inside your fort there is the chance they will wonder across their rival while you are wondering around the fort. Please note there is a chance you can remove this stat by sending him to the garrison then re-deploying him. Also for future reference uruks will always get this stat if they fight the same uruk more then 3 times this can happen if you bring them as a body guard or if you send them to kill an enemy uruk This can mainly happen if you make the enemy uruk flee so if he survives every time this will give ether uruk the enraged by rival or the flees in sight of your uruks or him. Other then that. That's mostly everything I know but if there is anything else you want to know then feel free to ask I might have the answer for it.
@luxas Well there is alot that I know about some of it most veteran players know about and even most veterans are still learning about some of these tricks. Lesson 1. Always take advantage of experience bonuses. Always have the best possible wealth gems equipped to your armor and cloak if you have 2 perfect wealth gems equipped you will get a 30% experience bonus but if you haven't already done this sign up with that thing in the main menu I think it's called WB Play if you sign in with the email used for your account it will give you a permenant 3% exp bonus totaling the experience bonus to 33% believe me this makes a huge difference. I max leveled in 1 month mostly because I played on separate times so for you I you played 24/7 every so many days you will probably max in less then 3 weeks. Lesson 2. Don't Spend Mierrien on uruk levels unless absolutely necessary. If you Want to level up uruks to your level fast if said uruk is already an enemy and you want him let him kill you one time it will instantly level him up to the amount of levels that your currently at but please note this also may make them 1 to 2 levels higher then you this can be scary if your level 80 because anything past level 80 can instant kill you so if you can wear him down till your able to shame him. Lesson 3. If your luck own that great in the fightpits close the application before your uruk dies this will save your uruk from dieing this also works in the online fightpits so if you want to farm legendary uruks this may be the fastest way but it's the most painful and boring method because I have had one of my uruks nearly lose 20 times because of legendary uruks he is currently facing. Also please note legendary uruks and ologs have higher chances of surviving most difficult battles. Lesson 3. This one is a common answer alot of people know. Always invest in legendary Uruks and ologs if you want to get your entire army legendary invest in ether the online fightpits or this or you could start farming offline fightpits with your strongest uruk/olog yes you reduce your chances of getting good uruks but you will be able to farm mierien because as soon as an enemy uruk dies he drops gear you should scrap any gear you get this is faster then finding treasure uruks out in the field and it gives you an average 400 to 900 mierien per gear based on how rare the gear is. Legendary gear I only ever recommend scrapping if you have spare copies of your gear so if you get a new copies of your legendary gear only keep it if it's level is higher then your legendary gear. Then scrap your old legendary gear if you do this it will make anywhere from 1500 to 2000 mierien. If possible invest in the marauder tribe and get the raiders armor from the Marauder uruks and ologs. The raiders armor not only helps you get mierien at a much faster rate then scraping gear it also boosts the amount of damage you will do for every 1 mierien you pick up so 10 mierien would boost your weapon by 10 damage and at my level and weapons being the same level if not better I actually tested this theory by the way. I found a slave spawn glitch in a world so I was sitting there killing uruks and farming mierien anyway a treasure olog spawned so I killed it then picked up the mierien while I had the full set of raider armor on I 1 hit killed slaves and ologs alike. So I spawned my graug to test how much damage it would do and to my shock I killed my graug in 4 hits with just my sword. I know this armor is ungodly overpowered. So I highly recommend investing in getting the full set of this armor. Lesson 4. Take advantage of the lessons of trial and error meaning if your fighting an uruk that is very very hard to kill or capture that uruk try everything you can ever possibly think of like if he is frost proof but not fire proof use fire but if he is immune to virtually everything accept arrows then use arrows. Also I have learned that if you use an ability called shadow pull use it often on enemy's who don't have Ranged proof. This can some times glitch and might work on them anyway. Lesson 5. Pay attention to the movement patterns of each tribe and class this will help you avoid the more scary moves each uruk will throw at you. Lesson 5. Don't die too often if you die multiple times in the same region it may result in one of your uruks or ologs to betray you because of not wanting to serve a weak leader I had this happen to me once and I never let my self be defeated in fights ever again. Lesson 6. Always make sure you don't have a full army in your region. Meaning Don't have too many branded orcs in the same place as this will trigger a rebellion encounter and believe me this is something you really don't want to happen as it will happen at the worst possible time like if your in the middle of a tough fight against an enemy that is hard to kill. The reason is because a rebellion van be anything from 1 to 4 uruks and ologs betraying you at the same time turning that 1v1 fight into a 1v4-5 fight which isn't pretty. If this happens Run! then try to isolate the weakest members of the rebellion then brand them or shame them depending on if they have the iron will trait. Do this with shadow pull like I said before it helps make sure you have a 1v1 fight without having to fight an army of orc cannon fodder. Lesson 7. Don't Kill Uruks/Ologs that betray you it is possible to save them. If 5hey have the "Iron Will" trait then shame them then find them and check there stats and if they still have that trait then make sure to keep shaming them until that stat is gone once it is gone ether brand them or let them kill you then brand them after their level matched yours. Lesson 8. Beware of Shaming. Shaming though useful in capturing an enemy or if you want a weak uruk for a fightpit you want to lose to make an uruk spawn in your world can also backfire. There is a small chance the uruk/olog will turn into a maniac. This is pretty rare even with the ability to increase how many levels they lose when shamed but it slightly increases the chance they turn into a maniac. Maniacs have a huge damage boost and defence boost. And they attack more frequently meaning it reduces the time it takes for them to attack after they already swung there weapon. For example it normally takes 1 to 2 seconds for a normal uruk captain to strike before waiting another 2 or so seconds but when enraged they only take half that amount of time for attacks so they will strike one after another in a rapid combo of normal and special attacks. This can be scary when against enemy's like hunters or Assasins or berserkers the same can be said for ologs. Lesson 9. Don't use enraged by everything in your fort defence when they are assigned to guard your overlord there is a huge chance they will start attacking your own overlord or bodyguards when enraged this won't be much of a problem if they are body guards of warchiefs so if the enemy and there army reach a checkpoint and if he gets enraged he won't attack his allies as much because of having plenty of enemy's to swing at. Lesson 10. Don't use just any uruk as an overlord. The reason being a common strategy I and many veteran players use is using Shadow pull to isolate the overlord from his body guards. What I recommend is using Ologs as they are too big for shadow pull to work that or use assassins as the overlord as they commonly have he arrow proof trait. Lesson 11. If you want to win alot in siege defence against players use Assasins often more preferably Arrow proof Assasins. Assasins are very Very hard to kill. And they may make the attacker lose a few of his uruks and ologs as he won't be able to get close enough to revive them without being insta-killed. That and Assasins ruin the purpose of having extra chances/lives as it takes only 1 chance for an Assasin to kill a player as they always have the "No Chance" Trait. I actually have an all Assasin dark tribe fort at the moment and as far as I have had it no one has ever challenged my fort ever. One last thing about this. Assasins are also great for stalling the enemy as they won't be able to get silver even if they do some how win. Believe me this type of army always makes you want to pull your hair out after fighting it. Lesson 12. Don't assign bodyguards who get enraged at the sight of a rival or if they also have the trait for fleeing at the site of certain uruks this will always result in losing ether the warchief or the body guard. As with the enraged by rival if the rival is your warchief you assigned him to he will kill that warchief. Lesson 13. Send uruks to the garrison if they have the enraged by rival trait as if there rival is in your army he will kill the rival both in siege and in open world because while they are inside your fort there is the chance they will wonder across their rival while you are wondering around the fort. Please note there is a chance you can remove this stat by sending him to the garrison then re-deploying him. Also for future reference uruks will always get this stat if they fight the same uruk more then 3 times this can happen if you bring them as a body guard or if you send them to kill an enemy uruk This can mainly happen if you make the enemy uruk flee so if he survives every time this will give ether uruk the enraged by rival or the flees in sight of your uruks or him. Other then that. That's mostly everything I know but if there is anything else you want to know then feel free to ask I might have the answer for it.
To be honest, I put this on my phone to sleep because I can't do anything in silence, including sleeping, and after maybe the first minute I was actually intrested. Great video!
If you purchase war chests prior to level 40 or whenever you want to open it the loot will scale to your level at the point you open it at. If a discount comes up buy a ton of war chests then open them later. Make sure to hit purchase to confirm instead of purchase and open.
I just go with overwhelming force, all my warchiefs are my level, my overlord is my level, all my warchiefs have 3 bodyguards in every region but Minas Morghul ( I hold complete control over all orcs in all regions, pretty much the EU of Mordor), all the captains (aka my bodyguard and my warchiefs’ bodyguards) are all my level and I have few orcs that are standard, most of my orcs are epic and most of my personal bodyguards are Legendary as are some of my warchiefs, also my warchiefs can’t have any great weaknesses unless they make up for it in strengths, otherwise some other orc will take his place and the overlord has to be good at pit fights and strong
MrButterBritches Butter there is no PvP. The Online Conquest mode simply allows you to lay siege on another player's custom fortress. You get rewards for completing a siege. and don't worry about someone attacking your fort, the defending side never suffers any losses from Online Conquest. The attacking force will suffer losses if you play on ranked mode, but not if you play on friendly mode.
Well, kudos! I haven't seen any of your previous videos, but, to my experience, you didn't sound anything like a robot in this one! Thanks for the content!
Just started after never touching it due to bad reviews and youtube videos. Can't believe how well this game is made. It's very similar but way better than AC: Valhalla
What you said about the silver chest was wrong. I bought a bunch of silver war chest at a low level and saved them until I leveled up a bunch and the Orcs were whatever level i was when I opened them. If you just save them, they’ll come out to whatever level you are when you open them
You can also place spies on the overlord to have them betray and fight by your side to defeat the overlord if fighting alone is a bit difficult but you'll have to run them through fight pits for infiltration to work
I had the Physical copies on Ps4, then got rid of my Ps4s when I bought my All Digital Ps5s. - The games are so good I bought the Digitals on Ps5, and with PS+ Shadow of Morodor was $1, and all the DLCs transfered over for free. - It's also hilarious that these games still hold up against Most games out in 2023. As well as the Uncharted franchise games... Unbelievably beautiful games that out perform most games from 2020-2023
The armour set that let's you use part of your health to gain might which allows like 5 executions in a row and the might equivalent to any other action including ranged attacks is crazy op
If Im afraid to lose my best captains, arent they becoming a nuisance at that point instead of a valid support? They are there to protect me, if they arent useful I might just cast them aside.
Awesome tips bud, I've only been playing for about an hour though and I'm only on level 4. Do you have any recommendations for the early stages of the game? What should I be levelling first?
I love this game. I have an epic poison blade that is level 6 and I can't bare to use anything else because the stats and insane crit chances out performs any other blade I've encountered so far and I'm level 30. I will say that I've had one Uruk come back from the dead 8 times to seek revenge on me lol.
thank you for the information i am currently not sure about buying the game because i get bored of grind very fast and end up no finishing any game that has any grind. so i want to ask is the last part of the game really designed for you to grind so that you have incentive to spend money in their micro transaction? if it is the case how much can we do to minimize that grinding?
Yeah I’m on stage 10 and it’s a lot easier but the thing about stage 10 is u have to defend all 4 and u have plenty of time to prep I would suggest going to the fight pits to level them up and put other orcs as ur captains body guards because that adds them to help them
For the first tip, when you say slot the weakest captains into the warchief slot, does that mean the same thing as the siege captains? Because if so, I would die before even getting to the overlord because I have weak captains defending me while I get the zones. And also, how would I be able to use my powerful captains if they aren’t in the warchief position?
yea i agree here, like i could get maybe saving 1 strong uruk/olog as your bodyguard (unless you pull a me and go with undead sappers via ironguard and legend sets) but securing those points with strong uruks and ologs as spies is much better than using weaker units. You wanna make sure you can secure the fort at all costs, both in attack and defense, have some strong allies as warchiefs, bodyguard them up with 3-4 bodyguards and synchronize their skills.
Didn’t know this game was this deep. I 100% the first one then stopped playing. This was three years ago. Then I bought this one last week. Level 28 right now, but I haven’t put much thought into it.
God I'm so glad they removed the microtransactions, the game is so good now. A bit grindy during the shadow wars section but other than that really good
I almost never get betrayed and when I do it's ors that I don't care about,so here's a tip for betrayal. try to not die an excessive amount and try to avoid the orc captians that have the humiliation perk.
I picked this game up a week ago and I can’t believe this game is this good
Agreed. At first I was feeling like it was really underwhelming but stuck with it and didn’t want to disown it only after 2 hours. I’m glad I didn’t because this game has gotten really fun and it was on me personally. I wasn’t using all the mechanics or moves I could which makes the game much more fun. Glad I stuck around
It’s an amazing game with great features! I was a huge fan of shadow of Mordor and just got back into playing Shadow of War. It has all the best mechanics of assassins creed mixed with the pure awesomeness of the LOTR universe. Anyone still looking to play this game a few years after launch will definitely enjoy the experience.
so happy that xbox game pass has it for free
Fr me and my friend have just been playing sudo American idol with all the orcs to decide who gets my sugar daddy mithril for upgrades
The game's really good, I've beaten it several times at this point. It didn't do so well on launch due to bugs and the controversial monetization it had for a single player game.
finally a video with ACTUAL tips instead of just reiterating what the game already tells you. thank you so much.
There is one thing the Overlord is very good at.
A Overlord will NEVER betray you.
So if you have a guy you like, but his blood brother is in your way, promote your guy to Overlord, and kill the Bloodbrother.
A Overlord won't care. And yes, I tried this some time ago. Sooo, there is a chance that has changed, but I don't see why.
Warchiefs are also less likely to betray you, not impossible just less likely.
Kill a warchiefs blood brother, he will betray you.
So basically, the guy you DON'T want to lose, put as Overlord, if you lose a fort he will be taken hostage, but you can easily save him.
And other guys you like as warchiefs.
Oh, and yes Graugs are tanky, but they can still be one hit by captains with Beast slayer.
WolfFireheart and your warchiefs can save you my warchiefs saved me two times I have 171 hours played and I’m sure they can save you
They can save you yes.
I prefer to keep the savior option off tho.
WolfFireheart why?
Mohammed Naseer Because they always ends up saving me when I least need it.
And they kill of cool/useful uruks!
Like on my last save, I went to die to "The Warlock" orc because he always becomes a Necromancer at higher lvls.
But he was like lvl 13 or something, I was like 40. So I wanted to give him a boost before I dominated him.
Aaaaand a random orc came and saved me and killed him!
I like having Necromancer orcs!
You missed one important fact that helps especially with the shadow wars. You should place body guards on your warchiefs or else any orc you have that isn't a war chief won't help defend. Having 6 lvl 55+ warchiefs with 3-4 body guards each dominates any attacking orcs.
Only 2 bodyguards will ever show up in an online conquest per warchief, no matter what you do.
Factor Fitness bodyguards of your orcs don’t appear at all when you’re attacking since the attacking orcs don’t have to be warchiefs, so it’s be pretty weird having a captain be the bodyguard of another captain
I was referring to when your fortress is attacked. The post above said that a warchief with 3-4 bodyguards would dominate - but that's not possible.
6 years later just got the game and this still seems very useful! Thanks
Who else still hopping on
Me err day
Me
I just started playing it.
I just bought it today.
Just started over cause I couldn't remember all the controls after a year of not playing
I just got Shadow of War a few days ago and I absolutely love it. I’m glad I watched this video because I have yet to gain the ability to dominate captains (I spend far too much time hunting down regular captains for fun), and so it’s good to know about the Overlord and Warchief drawbacks when it comes to taking and defending strongholds.
The Overlord actually joins the fight when you defend the last point. You could have checked that.
LU KA you would get the overloard faster if it was a warcheif and the old warcheif will be last click the like button if you agree
Gavin Spiller what the fuck are you saying
@@comodomonkmusic9950 Learn to spell. The spelling is everywhere in this game.
Gavin Spiller dude I’ve honestly tried to read this 5 times and it really just makes no sense like learn to spell man geez 😒
Gavin Spiller commas bro, they help.
Hey, if you wanna level up fast, while taking a fortress just before activate a xp boost and you get around 150k xp
Do I have to buy the xp boost I know this is an old add video
@@Pov_Chrisss I dont think xp boosts exist
@@joyce_rx Should be able to get them from the garrison.
@@defaltcm I'm level 22 right now and I don't have xp boost in my garrison. Currently I on the mission where I need to recruit captains. Eventually will this get unlocked?
@@cipherphinx honestly I cant remember as its been ages try opening a chest or Google it because I generally cannot remember when or how you get them sorry but I assume you will yes. Leveling shouldn't be too hard anyways.
Your bodyguard can be in the Overlord fight with you
He can now
You should also plant spies too
He cant for me
@@RENASK U know any reason why he probably can’t. Cause he’s always been able for me.
@@razavierdavis probably because he was in the siege or on a diffrent fortress
Every overlord fight I had I lost but my body guard saved me everytime
Anyone else here because the game is free on Ps Store?
Yo
Aha
Me
Here
I'm level 22
The best way to get strong orcs is in the fight pits. Even if you're orc loses you can just recruit the orc that won and repeat the same process. Btw your orcs will never get a higher level than you at any case. P.s. Don't just kill lengendary orc for thier gear. They can actually be unstoppable. It just depends on its stats if he has trash stats then you can kill him. I hope this helped
This is the first vid I've ever watched of yours and I definitely noticed that you were effortless with the flow of the video from tip to tip and e plaining each tip, even before you mentioned that ppl had requested less of a robotic delivery from you. You nailed it, well done.
You need to update this or make a new one especially now with the market being gone and other changes and now that so many people have bought the game recently on PSN for like 15 dollars with all the DLC’s
You mean they bought the game for 15 dollars or you mean they bought the dlcs for 15 dollars? cause i wanna buy the defenetive edition and it's 60 dollars on psn
jack gamer Shadow of war was on sale on psn for 8.99 or something close to that, but that was the base game, I bought the definitive edition which was also on sale for $15, but that sale ended already so now it’s back up to its original price
@@RobertoSantos-cy2rd oh okay
jack gamer it’s back on sale
@@Liquidgrin i know i recently got the defenetive edition.
I discovered this video about 30 hours of game play too late >.
I discovered this video after about 50,000 hours of gameplay lmao
That’s why I looked it up as soon as I got the game
Michael Scarpo I found this video when I didn’t really need it, sure I’m in the shadow wars phase but I can’t move my overlord from his spot and it doesn’t really matter since I’ve reached max level by just ignoring the siege part and upgrading my guys, you can’t Move the overlord But you can train him, a lot
@@wormybobcat3706 I'm on the siedge part and for some reason Nurnea always takes me adges and I keep dieing. Got any fortress defence tips?
I've got what I think is the best combo on but it clearly isn't.
@@blacklegbeastro5295 wait what was the video about again? Sorry mate but you came knocking on the wrong door I haven’t touched that game for months now
The currency part is sadly not avalible any longer the shop was cut, even the the chests you could buy with the ingame money are no longer their
This company needs to create a game like this under the Game of Thrones license
I will never buy a war chest. It just ruins the experience for me. The strength of this game is the relationships it creates with captains, making the feel real in a world that feels real but when orcs become ordinary loot doesn't ruin the connection with them? War chest just make the game less fun. The best experience possible with SoW is when not using the market at all.
Silver chest are okay I only use them for level ups or buffs and the odd super cool captain this one has less of a bond with captains than the first to me so I don't mind .
I really use it for training orders only
Well be happy they got rid of them hence the reason i started playing again on nemsis difficulty definitely better then being able to have every orc legendary was too easy before
All my orcs are legendary without the market
@@Maikeru3078 whats your point
Can u do anything do avoid betrayl? My army keeps betraying me. Got jumped by 3 of my own at the same time
lahordz sloobwhacker100th same here so I stopped using bodyguard. N started using just followers with the iron guard upgrade.
nathan cox i almost never use bodyguard. Same shit anyways. Specially if i recruit legendary followers, they allways betray me
I got betrayed doing an experiment. I had a Blood Brother as my bodyguard and went after the other brother...I was just wondering what would happen....It seemed my bodyguard mainly ignored his brother and focused on the grunts...So I had more time to get to his brother. Then after I won he betrayed me...But I was surprised he didn't betray me as soon as I started fighting his brother. I just wanted to see what would happen.
Mike Workman lol I sent my orc to kill his blood brother; when they clashed he said "the bright Lords making me do this, I'll be sure to make your death quick"
Then I got betrayed by both
Mike Workman how do you tell if it his brother?
Bought this game yesterday at 10am. Played it after download at 330pm. Played all the way until 230am today. So addicting and I got it for $12 from the Playstation store. I love this game! Thank you for the video!
I am so suprised about how small amount of subs you have since how well structured this video was O_O. Either way the best top 5 tips for shadow of war for sure! Pretty much answered everything I wished for! :)
Greatest advanced tips I've seen so far! Thanks for sharing. Wish I would have found this before deploying some of my Legendary followers just to test out the nemesis system...lol.
Shadow of War is so much better than Shadow of Mordor. Both games have similar fighting styles but that is about it. Shadow of War is much, much better, and sometimes I still play it tho I already played it like 200h + when Shadow of Mordor becomes repetitive very fast. Still, good video ;)
To recruit a blood brother of a follower, let them kill eachother. At the last moment, rush in and dominate.
Example
Hork: bla bla u my bro but order u die
Bork: bla bla that dude trick u
*Insert footage of fight*
Rush in, burn his face
Bork: aY wE hAvE tHe SaMe JoB, bRoThEr :D
Hork: :D
they betray you when u arrive at the nemisis mission lol.
Hahaha
No, this what you do, whoop 1 brothers ass and possess him and command him to leave so he won't witness you whoopin his blood brother and betray you, than after getting the other brother low enough send him away too
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Very helpful video. I bought and played Shadow of Mordor when it came out and was unable to complete the game. I bought this game and totally love it. I got to my second Boss fight and the guy was immune to all of my weapons and tactics in the throne room. now I have a better idea about how to handle it. Thanks alot.
I'm currently downloading Shadow of War since it's free on PS Plus. I played SoW back in 2019 & I remember how excellent of a game it was. The nemesis system is like nothing I've ever seen in a game.
Correction the overlord will come out if you lose all points
This game is a masterpiece hope they make a newer one
As far as the first tip. You do want to use powerful orcs for warchiefs and overlord to better defend the fortress against online attacks
Really Really thanks, didn't notice that the allies boost damage would apply in the fight pits
When I bought my PS4 Pro the shop gave me Shadow of War right away as promotion I haven't play until I watch Rings of Power. That series motivated me to play both Shadow Saga plus Shadow of Mordor just discounted so I bought it right away and play the game chronologically.
I think the devs have said that Talion's ring/gem bonuses DON'T apply to the fight pits, as you are not in the fight with them. Also, some of those bonuses apply only to grunts, not captains.
The first useful guide on shadow of war i’ve found on yt
Thank you so much for this video, just got the game at the start of 2019 Jan 1, these tips all seem valid still (minus market), thanks for the great video 👍
Can you do another video with the update? 🤔🤔
New players if you are reading this half of this video is out of date.
Reasons being the online store for the game at some point they removed war chests and gold currency meaning you can no longer buy bonuses and orcs from the store the only remaining in game currency is mierien mostly because without it you can't upgrade your army and your fort so they kept that. Also the maximum level cap is 80 now.
@luxas Well there is alot that I know about some of it most veteran players know about and even most veterans are still learning about some of these tricks.
Lesson 1. Always take advantage of experience bonuses. Always have the best possible wealth gems equipped to your armor and cloak if you have 2 perfect wealth gems equipped you will get a 30% experience bonus but if you haven't already done this sign up with that thing in the main menu I think it's called WB Play if you sign in with the email used for your account it will give you a permenant 3% exp bonus totaling the experience bonus to 33% believe me this makes a huge difference. I max leveled in 1 month mostly because I played on separate times so for you I you played 24/7 every so many days you will probably max in less then 3 weeks.
Lesson 2. Don't Spend Mierrien on uruk levels unless absolutely necessary. If you Want to level up uruks to your level fast if said uruk is already an enemy and you want him let him kill you one time it will instantly level him up to the amount of levels that your currently at but please note this also may make them 1 to 2 levels higher then you this can be scary if your level 80 because anything past level 80 can instant kill you so if you can wear him down till your able to shame him.
Lesson 3. If your luck own that great in the fightpits close the application before your uruk dies this will save your uruk from dieing this also works in the online fightpits so if you want to farm legendary uruks this may be the fastest way but it's the most painful and boring method because I have had one of my uruks nearly lose 20 times because of legendary uruks he is currently facing. Also please note legendary uruks and ologs have higher chances of surviving most difficult battles.
Lesson 3. This one is a common answer alot of people know. Always invest in legendary Uruks and ologs if you want to get your entire army legendary invest in ether the online fightpits or this or you could start farming offline fightpits with your strongest uruk/olog yes you reduce your chances of getting good uruks but you will be able to farm mierien because as soon as an enemy uruk dies he drops gear you should scrap any gear you get this is faster then finding treasure uruks out in the field and it gives you an average 400 to 900 mierien per gear based on how rare the gear is. Legendary gear I only ever recommend scrapping if you have spare copies of your gear so if you get a new copies of your legendary gear only keep it if it's level is higher then your legendary gear. Then scrap your old legendary gear if you do this it will make anywhere from 1500 to 2000 mierien.
If possible invest in the marauder tribe and get the raiders armor from the Marauder uruks and ologs. The raiders armor not only helps you get mierien at a much faster rate then scraping gear it also boosts the amount of damage you will do for every 1 mierien you pick up so 10 mierien would boost your weapon by 10 damage and at my level and weapons being the same level if not better I actually tested this theory by the way. I found a slave spawn glitch in a world so I was sitting there killing uruks and farming mierien anyway a treasure olog spawned so I killed it then picked up the mierien while I had the full set of raider armor on I 1 hit killed slaves and ologs alike. So I spawned my graug to test how much damage it would do and to my shock I killed my graug in 4 hits with just my sword. I know this armor is ungodly overpowered. So I highly recommend investing in getting the full set of this armor.
Lesson 4. Take advantage of the lessons of trial and error meaning if your fighting an uruk that is very very hard to kill or capture that uruk try everything you can ever possibly think of like if he is frost proof but not fire proof use fire but if he is immune to virtually everything accept arrows then use arrows. Also I have learned that if you use an ability called shadow pull use it often on enemy's who don't have Ranged proof. This can some times glitch and might work on them anyway.
Lesson 5. Pay attention to the movement patterns of each tribe and class this will help you avoid the more scary moves each uruk will throw at you.
Lesson 5. Don't die too often if you die multiple times in the same region it may result in one of your uruks or ologs to betray you because of not wanting to serve a weak leader I had this happen to me once and I never let my self be defeated in fights ever again.
Lesson 6. Always make sure you don't have a full army in your region. Meaning Don't have too many branded orcs in the same place as this will trigger a rebellion encounter and believe me this is something you really don't want to happen as it will happen at the worst possible time like if your in the middle of a tough fight against an enemy that is hard to kill. The reason is because a rebellion van be anything from 1 to 4 uruks and ologs betraying you at the same time turning that 1v1 fight into a 1v4-5 fight which isn't pretty. If this happens Run! then try to isolate the weakest members of the rebellion then brand them or shame them depending on if they have the iron will trait. Do this with shadow pull like I said before it helps make sure you have a 1v1 fight without having to fight an army of orc cannon fodder.
Lesson 7. Don't Kill Uruks/Ologs that betray you it is possible to save them. If 5hey have the "Iron Will" trait then shame them then find them and check there stats and if they still have that trait then make sure to keep shaming them until that stat is gone once it is gone ether brand them or let them kill you then brand them after their level matched yours.
Lesson 8. Beware of Shaming. Shaming though useful in capturing an enemy or if you want a weak uruk for a fightpit you want to lose to make an uruk spawn in your world can also backfire. There is a small chance the uruk/olog will turn into a maniac. This is pretty rare even with the ability to increase how many levels they lose when shamed but it slightly increases the chance they turn into a maniac. Maniacs have a huge damage boost and defence boost. And they attack more frequently meaning it reduces the time it takes for them to attack after they already swung there weapon. For example it normally takes 1 to 2 seconds for a normal uruk captain to strike before waiting another 2 or so seconds but when enraged they only take half that amount of time for attacks so they will strike one after another in a rapid combo of normal and special attacks. This can be scary when against enemy's like hunters or Assasins or berserkers the same can be said for ologs.
Lesson 9. Don't use enraged by everything in your fort defence when they are assigned to guard your overlord there is a huge chance they will start attacking your own overlord or bodyguards when enraged this won't be much of a problem if they are body guards of warchiefs so if the enemy and there army reach a checkpoint and if he gets enraged he won't attack his allies as much because of having plenty of enemy's to swing at.
Lesson 10. Don't use just any uruk as an overlord. The reason being a common strategy I and many veteran players use is using Shadow pull to isolate the overlord from his body guards. What I recommend is using Ologs as they are too big for shadow pull to work that or use assassins as the overlord as they commonly have he arrow proof trait.
Lesson 11. If you want to win alot in siege defence against players use Assasins often more preferably Arrow proof Assasins. Assasins are very Very hard to kill. And they may make the attacker lose a few of his uruks and ologs as he won't be able to get close enough to revive them without being insta-killed. That and Assasins ruin the purpose of having extra chances/lives as it takes only 1 chance for an Assasin to kill a player as they always have the "No Chance" Trait. I actually have an all Assasin dark tribe fort at the moment and as far as I have had it no one has ever challenged my fort ever. One last thing about this. Assasins are also great for stalling the enemy as they won't be able to get silver even if they do some how win. Believe me this type of army always makes you want to pull your hair out after fighting it.
Lesson 12. Don't assign bodyguards who get enraged at the sight of a rival or if they also have the trait for fleeing at the site of certain uruks this will always result in losing ether the warchief or the body guard. As with the enraged by rival if the rival is your warchief you assigned him to he will kill that warchief.
Lesson 13. Send uruks to the garrison if they have the enraged by rival trait as if there rival is in your army he will kill the rival both in siege and in open world because while they are inside your fort there is the chance they will wonder across their rival while you are wondering around the fort. Please note there is a chance you can remove this stat by sending him to the garrison then re-deploying him. Also for future reference uruks will always get this stat if they fight the same uruk more then 3 times this can happen if you bring them as a body guard or if you send them to kill an enemy uruk This can mainly happen if you make the enemy uruk flee so if he survives every time this will give ether uruk the enraged by rival or the flees in sight of your uruks or him.
Other then that. That's mostly everything I know but if there is anything else you want to know then feel free to ask I might have the answer for it.
@luxas Well there is alot that I know about some of it most veteran players know about and even most veterans are still learning about some of these tricks.
Lesson 1. Always take advantage of experience bonuses. Always have the best possible wealth gems equipped to your armor and cloak if you have 2 perfect wealth gems equipped you will get a 30% experience bonus but if you haven't already done this sign up with that thing in the main menu I think it's called WB Play if you sign in with the email used for your account it will give you a permenant 3% exp bonus totaling the experience bonus to 33% believe me this makes a huge difference. I max leveled in 1 month mostly because I played on separate times so for you I you played 24/7 every so many days you will probably max in less then 3 weeks.
Lesson 2. Don't Spend Mierrien on uruk levels unless absolutely necessary. If you Want to level up uruks to your level fast if said uruk is already an enemy and you want him let him kill you one time it will instantly level him up to the amount of levels that your currently at but please note this also may make them 1 to 2 levels higher then you this can be scary if your level 80 because anything past level 80 can instant kill you so if you can wear him down till your able to shame him.
Lesson 3. If your luck own that great in the fightpits close the application before your uruk dies this will save your uruk from dieing this also works in the online fightpits so if you want to farm legendary uruks this may be the fastest way but it's the most painful and boring method because I have had one of my uruks nearly lose 20 times because of legendary uruks he is currently facing. Also please note legendary uruks and ologs have higher chances of surviving most difficult battles.
Lesson 3. This one is a common answer alot of people know. Always invest in legendary Uruks and ologs if you want to get your entire army legendary invest in ether the online fightpits or this or you could start farming offline fightpits with your strongest uruk/olog yes you reduce your chances of getting good uruks but you will be able to farm mierien because as soon as an enemy uruk dies he drops gear you should scrap any gear you get this is faster then finding treasure uruks out in the field and it gives you an average 400 to 900 mierien per gear based on how rare the gear is. Legendary gear I only ever recommend scrapping if you have spare copies of your gear so if you get a new copies of your legendary gear only keep it if it's level is higher then your legendary gear. Then scrap your old legendary gear if you do this it will make anywhere from 1500 to 2000 mierien.
If possible invest in the marauder tribe and get the raiders armor from the Marauder uruks and ologs. The raiders armor not only helps you get mierien at a much faster rate then scraping gear it also boosts the amount of damage you will do for every 1 mierien you pick up so 10 mierien would boost your weapon by 10 damage and at my level and weapons being the same level if not better I actually tested this theory by the way. I found a slave spawn glitch in a world so I was sitting there killing uruks and farming mierien anyway a treasure olog spawned so I killed it then picked up the mierien while I had the full set of raider armor on I 1 hit killed slaves and ologs alike. So I spawned my graug to test how much damage it would do and to my shock I killed my graug in 4 hits with just my sword. I know this armor is ungodly overpowered. So I highly recommend investing in getting the full set of this armor.
Lesson 4. Take advantage of the lessons of trial and error meaning if your fighting an uruk that is very very hard to kill or capture that uruk try everything you can ever possibly think of like if he is frost proof but not fire proof use fire but if he is immune to virtually everything accept arrows then use arrows. Also I have learned that if you use an ability called shadow pull use it often on enemy's who don't have Ranged proof. This can some times glitch and might work on them anyway.
Lesson 5. Pay attention to the movement patterns of each tribe and class this will help you avoid the more scary moves each uruk will throw at you.
Lesson 5. Don't die too often if you die multiple times in the same region it may result in one of your uruks or ologs to betray you because of not wanting to serve a weak leader I had this happen to me once and I never let my self be defeated in fights ever again.
Lesson 6. Always make sure you don't have a full army in your region. Meaning Don't have too many branded orcs in the same place as this will trigger a rebellion encounter and believe me this is something you really don't want to happen as it will happen at the worst possible time like if your in the middle of a tough fight against an enemy that is hard to kill. The reason is because a rebellion van be anything from 1 to 4 uruks and ologs betraying you at the same time turning that 1v1 fight into a 1v4-5 fight which isn't pretty. If this happens Run! then try to isolate the weakest members of the rebellion then brand them or shame them depending on if they have the iron will trait. Do this with shadow pull like I said before it helps make sure you have a 1v1 fight without having to fight an army of orc cannon fodder.
Lesson 7. Don't Kill Uruks/Ologs that betray you it is possible to save them. If 5hey have the "Iron Will" trait then shame them then find them and check there stats and if they still have that trait then make sure to keep shaming them until that stat is gone once it is gone ether brand them or let them kill you then brand them after their level matched yours.
Lesson 8. Beware of Shaming. Shaming though useful in capturing an enemy or if you want a weak uruk for a fightpit you want to lose to make an uruk spawn in your world can also backfire. There is a small chance the uruk/olog will turn into a maniac. This is pretty rare even with the ability to increase how many levels they lose when shamed but it slightly increases the chance they turn into a maniac. Maniacs have a huge damage boost and defence boost. And they attack more frequently meaning it reduces the time it takes for them to attack after they already swung there weapon. For example it normally takes 1 to 2 seconds for a normal uruk captain to strike before waiting another 2 or so seconds but when enraged they only take half that amount of time for attacks so they will strike one after another in a rapid combo of normal and special attacks. This can be scary when against enemy's like hunters or Assasins or berserkers the same can be said for ologs.
Lesson 9. Don't use enraged by everything in your fort defence when they are assigned to guard your overlord there is a huge chance they will start attacking your own overlord or bodyguards when enraged this won't be much of a problem if they are body guards of warchiefs so if the enemy and there army reach a checkpoint and if he gets enraged he won't attack his allies as much because of having plenty of enemy's to swing at.
Lesson 10. Don't use just any uruk as an overlord. The reason being a common strategy I and many veteran players use is using Shadow pull to isolate the overlord from his body guards. What I recommend is using Ologs as they are too big for shadow pull to work that or use assassins as the overlord as they commonly have he arrow proof trait.
Lesson 11. If you want to win alot in siege defence against players use Assasins often more preferably Arrow proof Assasins. Assasins are very Very hard to kill. And they may make the attacker lose a few of his uruks and ologs as he won't be able to get close enough to revive them without being insta-killed. That and Assasins ruin the purpose of having extra chances/lives as it takes only 1 chance for an Assasin to kill a player as they always have the "No Chance" Trait. I actually have an all Assasin dark tribe fort at the moment and as far as I have had it no one has ever challenged my fort ever. One last thing about this. Assasins are also great for stalling the enemy as they won't be able to get silver even if they do some how win. Believe me this type of army always makes you want to pull your hair out after fighting it.
Lesson 12. Don't assign bodyguards who get enraged at the sight of a rival or if they also have the trait for fleeing at the site of certain uruks this will always result in losing ether the warchief or the body guard. As with the enraged by rival if the rival is your warchief you assigned him to he will kill that warchief.
Lesson 13. Send uruks to the garrison if they have the enraged by rival trait as if there rival is in your army he will kill the rival both in siege and in open world because while they are inside your fort there is the chance they will wonder across their rival while you are wondering around the fort. Please note there is a chance you can remove this stat by sending him to the garrison then re-deploying him. Also for future reference uruks will always get this stat if they fight the same uruk more then 3 times this can happen if you bring them as a body guard or if you send them to kill an enemy uruk This can mainly happen if you make the enemy uruk flee so if he survives every time this will give ether uruk the enraged by rival or the flees in sight of your uruks or him.
Other then that. That's mostly everything I know but if there is anything else you want to know then feel free to ask I might have the answer for it.
vincent jennings thanks for the tips bro, just got the game
@@derpfisch466 No problem just helping the community. Also enjoy the game.
Got this off the Humble choice and this video was a huge help. Great tips. Thank you!
To be honest, I put this on my phone to sleep because I can't do anything in silence, including sleeping, and after maybe the first minute I was actually intrested. Great video!
all of this info will be valuable when I get the game for Christmas
I didn't know this was actually a gaming channel
If you purchase war chests prior to level 40 or whenever you want to open it the loot will scale to your level at the point you open it at. If a discount comes up buy a ton of war chests then open them later. Make sure to hit purchase to confirm instead of purchase and open.
The overlord do fights during defense, he gets out of the fortress if all points are captured
Damn, never knew you uploaded this video. Upper Echelon!
I just go with overwhelming force, all my warchiefs are my level, my overlord is my level, all my warchiefs have 3 bodyguards in every region but Minas Morghul ( I hold complete control over all orcs in all regions, pretty much the EU of Mordor), all the captains (aka my bodyguard and my warchiefs’ bodyguards) are all my level and I have few orcs that are standard, most of my orcs are epic and most of my personal bodyguards are Legendary as are some of my warchiefs, also my warchiefs can’t have any great weaknesses unless they make up for it in strengths, otherwise some other orc will take his place and the overlord has to be good at pit fights and strong
Can anyone attack you on pvp? Even if you aren't ready?
MrButterBritches Butter there is no PvP. The Online Conquest mode simply allows you to lay siege on another player's custom fortress. You get rewards for completing a siege. and don't worry about someone attacking your fort, the defending side never suffers any losses from Online Conquest. The attacking force will suffer losses if you play on ranked mode, but not if you play on friendly mode.
I just started playing this game and it is fun AF !!
Shadow of War is free on PS+ for November 2020, just fyi.
Got this game a few days ago on ps5 it holds up in all aspects very well
Well, kudos! I haven't seen any of your previous videos, but, to my experience, you didn't sound anything like a robot in this one! Thanks for the content!
Thanks for the tips and your right anyone who's put enough hours in knows and appreciate the help
Did not know about the war chief vs captains bit at all thanks for the info it's gonna save me a ton of lost high level allies.
Dude your channel is great I just found you and you really helped im lvl 13 and just starting act two and you don't need it a script it was great
Just started after never touching it due to bad reviews and youtube videos. Can't believe how well this game is made. It's very similar but way better than AC: Valhalla
There's things AC does better but there's things this game does better they're both excellent
What you said about the silver chest was wrong. I bought a bunch of silver war chest at a low level and saved them until I leveled up a bunch and the Orcs were whatever level i was when I opened them. If you just save them, they’ll come out to whatever level you are when you open them
LilGoon yes when you use the chest they come out at that level obviously
You can also place spies on the overlord to have them betray and fight by your side to defeat the overlord if fighting alone is a bit difficult but you'll have to run them through fight pits for infiltration to work
Hey man, thank you for making this. It was incredibly helpful. I learned a lot from you. You have my subscription my man. :D
Really good video man. Keep up the good work.
I had the Physical copies on Ps4, then got rid of my Ps4s when I bought my All Digital Ps5s.
- The games are so good I bought the Digitals on Ps5, and with PS+ Shadow of Morodor was $1, and all the DLCs transfered over for free.
- It's also hilarious that these games still hold up against Most games out in 2023. As well as the Uncharted franchise games... Unbelievably beautiful games that out perform most games from 2020-2023
Wish I had watched this a couple weeks ago. Very good suggestions, and I'll be subscribing.
Great video, I’m thirty hours in so far, and I’m always on the look out for cool tips, thanks very much 👍
I just picked this up this morning.
It sounds like hella fun.
Very informative , spot on , didn't sound like a robot at all! 👌😃Great stuff man
Thank you. This was very well done ... Really good job :)
Good tips. I was worried about gems being consumable. Now I'm slotting everything!
The armour set that let's you use part of your health to gain might which allows like 5 executions in a row and the might equivalent to any other action including ranged attacks is crazy op
Now it's free on PlayStation plus I see more people playing this
Just started playing this game earlier in the week cuz of gamepass & I'm in love this game is dope as fuck 🔥🔥🔥
to anyone playing on pc, if you are bad at timing spam both mouse buttons as you melee you will auto block essentially
The overlord actually does help a lot as he comes in for the last point
Great video glad I found this channel
If Im afraid to lose my best captains, arent they becoming a nuisance at that point instead of a valid support? They are there to protect me, if they arent useful I might just cast them aside.
I’m quite late but just duplicate them using a tutorial (add your platform in the search)
Awesome tips bud, I've only been playing for about an hour though and I'm only on level 4. Do you have any recommendations for the early stages of the game? What should I be levelling first?
Thanks bro for the tip may you get 2 mil 🙏
I got Shadow of War for $9 here in Australia and I am enjoying it. I never played Sahdow of Mordor.
Pro video man.. keep up the hard work.. Also you didn’t sound boring ether.. I️ watched the whole thing thru. 😉
Helpful in-depth tips. Great work. Thanks!!!!!!
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What premium currency??
I love this game. I have an epic poison blade that is level 6 and I can't bare to use anything else because the stats and insane crit chances out performs any other blade I've encountered so far and I'm level 30. I will say that I've had one Uruk come back from the dead 8 times to seek revenge on me lol.
Shit, I never knew the follower dmg bonus applied to fight pits, lol xD
thank you for the information i am currently not sure about buying the game because i get bored of grind very fast and end up no finishing any game that has any grind.
so i want to ask is the last part of the game really designed for you to grind so that you have incentive to spend money in their micro transaction?
if it is the case how much can we do to minimize that grinding?
Anyone know how to get a third last chance? I have Adamant skill but I still only have 2 chances
What is you’re chest armor and cloak called, and how to get? Please answer!
Thanks, just started this game, good tips
I honestly hated the fuck out of Shadow of Mordor but found myself loving this one. They worked their shit out 100% better than the last game.
from what level I can start to create my army?
Note: You don't need to wait to higher levels to buy chests, you just need to wait until higher levels to open them.
Yeah I’m on stage 10 and it’s a lot easier but the thing about stage 10 is u have to defend all 4 and u have plenty of time to prep I would suggest going to the fight pits to level them up and put other orcs as ur captains body guards because that adds them to help them
For the first tip, when you say slot the weakest captains into the warchief slot, does that mean the same thing as the siege captains? Because if so, I would die before even getting to the overlord because I have weak captains defending me while I get the zones. And also, how would I be able to use my powerful captains if they aren’t in the warchief position?
Anyone still play this game? Just got it for free
I play this game still
first tip is bleh. just use your best guys they are fodder and you always get more easy
Yeah I prefer to secure my win
yea i agree here, like i could get maybe saving 1 strong uruk/olog as your bodyguard (unless you pull a me and go with undead sappers via ironguard and legend sets) but securing those points with strong uruks and ologs as spies is much better than using weaker units. You wanna make sure you can secure the fort at all costs, both in attack and defense, have some strong allies as warchiefs, bodyguard them up with 3-4 bodyguards and synchronize their skills.
Didn’t know this game was this deep. I 100% the first one then stopped playing. This was three years ago. Then I bought this one last week. Level 28 right now, but I haven’t put much thought into it.
Platinumed this last night. The grind feels good.
So do you loose any war chiefs if you loose a defense mission? Or just a chance to loose the overlord?
God I'm so glad they removed the microtransactions, the game is so good now. A bit grindy during the shadow wars section but other than that really good
sadly it makes a lot of the tips in this video obsolete though haha
I have white gems in my ring slot to add levels when I dominate a captain
Once I gain the nazgul armour I'm gonna switch to the red gem
I almost never get betrayed and when I do it's ors that I don't care about,so here's a tip for betrayal. try to not die an excessive amount and try to avoid the orc captians that have the humiliation perk.
Brilliant video, very useful, thanks
Thanks man. Great video
loving this game so far.