Overview
Some more tips and tricks to getting a level 25 rune for the achievement “A Mighty Doom”
Some more tips and tricks to getting a level 25 rune
Even having read the guide by The OneAndOnlyLan the “A Mighty Doom” achievement still took a lot of time and several tries before I got it right. So this is how I finally did it.
Short version
- Pick an Uruk with a Hate (ignore any fears)
- Level your target to level 20 and make him warchief (do not brand him)
- Ensure he is a revenge target
- Brand his bodyguards
- Make a bodyguard betray the warchief
- Scout the location of the betrayal
- Activate the warchiefs Hate
- Get the warchief low on health and let bodyguards kill him
- Pick up your rune and rejoice
More in depth
As is known the level of a rune an Uruk drops is usually his power level + any bonuses. Since an Uruk’s max power level is 20 you will need +5 in bonuses. Bonuses are
- +2 for being a warchief
- +1 for being a revenge target
- +1 for knowing strenght and weaknesses (ie. knowing his intel)
- +1 for exploiting a weakness
- +1 for activating a Hate or Fear
Unfortunately exploiting a weakness seems to only work if you deliver the killing blow, which you’ll want to avoid since your target may then drop an epic rune (usually better than leveled runes but doesn’t count for the achievement). If you want to ensure a leveled rune instead of an epic you’ll want his bodyguards to deliver the killing blow. So you’ll need to get all the other bonuses.
Pick an Uruk with a Hate
First you will want to pick an Uruk that has an easily exploited Hate. Fears are less useful since he may overcome them as he levels and also Fear makes him run away which will make it difficult to ensure his bodyguards kill him. Activating a Hate on the other hand will Enrage him which heals him to full and makes him ignore any weaknesses, but the Enrage lasts only a few seconds after which he can be killed.
Since you are picking an Uruk for his Hate you will already know his intel (+1).
Level your target to level 20 and make him warchief
Skip this if your target is already a level 20 warchief.
There are two ways an Uruk levels up, succeding events and killing you. To get him promoted in the hierarchy you can kill any of his superiors (any Uruk in the row above him) and then allow him to kill you.
At level 19 or 20 it’s time to get him promoted to warchief. Now if he is a bodyguard you will need to kill his warchief’s other bodyguards first and then his warchief. If he is not a bodyguard kill any warchief and the warchief’s bodyguards, if you have a branded warchief and the dispatch ability then this is easy as you can simply take the warchiefs “Beck and Call” mission and then dispatch him and all his bodyguards with a single button press.
And then let your target kill you to ensure his promotion to warchief.
During all this it is important that you do not brand him. As far as I can tell branding an Uruk removes the revenge target mark. And it will also make him non-hostile when the time comes to kill him. You want him to be hostile so you can make his bodyguards kill him.
Ensure he is a revenge target
During the above step you will most likely have let him kill you at least once, which makes him a revenge target (+1), if so skip to the next step. If you have managed to get a level 20 warchief without him killing you then you need to draw him out and let him chop you to pieces, he will enjoy that.
Brand his bodyguards
If he does not have any bodyguards brand some captains and make them his bodyguard, 2 or 3 bodyguards should suffice.
Make a bodyguard betray the warchief
Grab a bodyguard and order him to betray your target.
Betrayal mission have the advantage that they usually don’t take place inside a stronghold where you may be overwhelmed by Uruks. Usually they will be somewhere away from a stronghold where you can get some alone time with your warchief and his bodyguards.
Scout the location of the betrayal
Go to the location of the betrayal but do not activate the mission. Now it’s time to scout the location, you know your targets intel so check out if the location allows you to exploit his Hate. If he hates being burned look for campfires or grogg barrels, if he hates caragors look for hanging meat that can attract them or caged caragors (wild caragors may disappear when the mission is started so it has to be caged ones), etc. Use your wraith-vision to check for these things.
Ofcourse if your warchief hates burning and is not immune to ranged you can use fire arrows so won’t need to scout the location, but if he is immune to ranged he will also be immune to your fire arrows, so scout.
If there is nothing around to activate his Hate, go grab another of his bodyguards for another betrayal location, since you did not start the mission there is no penalty for this.
Activate the warchief’s Hate
Ok, you have found a good location where the warchiefs hate can be exploited. Then it’s time to start the mission. You will want to exploit his Hate as soon as possible, immidiately if you can. No need to get him to low health only to have him heal to full when activating his Hate. If he spawns near something that can trigger his hate, congrats, if not you may need to draw his attention and lure him near it. Then set him on fire, attract caragors, drop morgai flies on him, whatever.
Get the warchief low on health and let bodyguards kill him
Once the Enrage wears off (only takes a couple of seconds) it’s time to let him know how you feel about that time (or times) when he chopped you to pieces, violence is a good way to express yourself. But do not kill him, once he gets to 1/3-1/4 health back off, let his bodyguards finish him off to ensure a leveled rune and not an epic one.
Pick up your rune and rejoice
If you did things the way I just described you should get
level 20 because of Uruks level
- +2 for being a warchief
- +1 for being a revenge target
- +1 for knowing strenght and weaknesses
- +1 for activating a Hate or Fear
- non-epic since you didn’t deliver the killing blow
Totaling a level 25 rune.
Congratulations on the “A Mighty Doom” achievement.