A Mighty Doom achievement in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

A Mighty Doom

Acquire a level 25 Rune.

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How to unlock the A Mighty Doom achievement

  • L4DANathanL4DANathan151,969
    25 Oct 2015 25 Oct 2015 31 Oct 2015
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    After spending an annoying amount of time trying to get a level 25 rune, I've compiled information regarding how the rune calculations work. This also works for the level 30 rune achievement, just have the Warchief be level 25, rather than 20.

    The rune you get from killing a Warchief or a Captain is tied to their level + several modifiers. You kill a level 17 Captain with no modifiers, you'll get a level 17 rune, etc. The modifiers are as follow:

    +2 for being a Warchief
    +1 for having a Death Threat against them
    +1 for knowing their weaknesses
    +1 for killing them with their weakness (must be an insta-kill weakness, very difficult to get a level 20 Warchief or Captain who still has one)
    +1 for exploiting a fear/rage
    +1 for being a revenge target (they've previously killed you)

    The fastest way that I've found is to get a Warchief to level 20, have him kill you, know his weaknesses, and have a death threat on him. Now, the important thing to note is that if you kill the Warchief, it's likely that you'll get an Epic Rune rather than a level-based one. The way around this is if you have the Warchief die by means other than yourself, such as a wild caragor/graug, or a branded Uruk (I used the Warchief's bodyguards to accomplish this), he will be guaranteed to drop a level-based rune. You can still get a level-based rune by killing him yourself, but why take the chance? Hope this helps anyone who had issues like myself.
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    MissDirectI definitely had some trouble with this one and used several guides, and here's a few alterations to yours that I'd recommend - First, no death threat! Death threats mean you increase your chance of getting an epic rune instead of a leveled one. Second, at some point (ideally before the uruk makes makes warchief to be certain you don't miss the opportunity when you kill him) exploit a fear of his. Terrify him with flies or fire on one of his feasts, etc. Oddly no matter how long before killing him you do this, the game takes it into account when calculating rune level. Definitely killing him with something/one other than yourself is super important: every time I killed the warchief myself I got an epic rune. The surest way to do this is get five branded uruks to be his bodyguards and then command one betray him (if you're SUPER lucky you'll be able to manipulate things into having a warchief with a fear of betrayal). So to sum up, I recommend going for
    +2 for being a warchief
    +1 for knowing their weaknesses
    +1 for exploiting a fear
    +1 for being a revenge target
    And having their bodyguards kill him.
    Posted by MissDirect on 27 Oct 18 at 17:56
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