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A Mighty Doom trophy 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 trophy

  • ExtremePhobiaExtremePhobia
    08 Oct 2014 31 Oct 2014 21 Apr 2015
    Orcs can only reach as high as level 20, so to do this, you'll have to boost the level of the rune when you kill the Warchief.

    Find a relatively easy to kill but high level Orc Captain that is a body guard by interrogating worms. You want this Orc to reach level 20 BEFORE he becomes Warchief because leveling up after may cause him to turn into a Legendary Warchief, which will always drop am Epic Rune upon death.

    Either make time pass through the forge towers or let him kill you to level him up to 20. Once he hits 20, get ready to kill his Warchief. Make sure to eliminate any othrr bodyguards so that the captain you leveled up will become Warchief when his boss is killed.

    The hard part is out of the way for the most part. Let the Warchief kill you so that you get a "Revenge" bonus when you kill him.

    Even though he is level 20, you'll get +2 levels because he's a Warchief, +1 level for getting a revenge kill since he's already killed you, and +1 level for knowing his strengths and weaknesses. That's a minimum level 24 rune.

    All you have to do now is kill the Warchief and make sure you use one of his weaknesses or fears. This will get you the last level. When he dies, you'll most likely get a level 25 rune, though there may be a small chance of getting an Epic Rune unfortunately.

    Just be sure not to issue a death threat as this will almost certainly result in an Epic Rune.

    Courtesy of Slider257, we've got a pretty amazing tip. Though I haven't tested it myself, I highly recommend that you give it a shot as this could potentially save you hours of effort if things go wrong!
    Slider257 said:
    A great trick is to backup your save to a USB thumb drive. I did that before battling my leveled war chief so when he dropped an epic rune, I reloaded the save from my thumb drive and tried again. Took 3 reloads before I finally got it so just be patient.
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    CrucialVelocityJust to add also, you don't need to exploit his fear/hate in the battle where you kill him as long as you've used it against him previously.

    I got a Captain to Level 20 (had already let him kill me so he was a revenge target). At that point, I had a fight with him, used his fear (Caragors) and branded him. I then made him kill his Warchief (he was the sole body guard). Soon as that was done, he became Warchief, then I killed him and voila, Level 25 Rune.
    Posted by CrucialVelocity On 07 Nov 14 at 04:22
    ExtremePhobiaThat's pretty great. Do you know if this applies to weaknesses as well? Or just fears?
    Posted by ExtremePhobia On 07 Nov 14 at 10:37
    NoLoveFromJohnI've been working on this for HOURS. 4 tries and epic rune every time. About to give up on my platinum award out of new found hatred for this game.
    Posted by NoLoveFromJohn On 16 Feb 15 at 22:01
    Slider257A great trick is to backup your save to a USB thumb drive. I did that before battling my leveled war chief so when he dropped an epic rune, I reloaded the save from my thumb drive and tried again. Took 3 reloads before I finally got it so just be patient.
    Posted by Slider257 On 20 Apr 15 at 05:26
    ExtremePhobiaThat's a fantastic idea Slider! I'll make sure to include that.
    Posted by ExtremePhobia On 21 Apr 15 at 15:31
    PMDStrandbeestJust got this last night, can confirm backing up to USB saved my ass, granted I've been in the habit for a while after trying for the Titan Souls plat (that Gol-Set fight on hard Iron Man jesus christ). It took 4 warchief kills before it was non-epic. The key here is they need to be lvl 20 before becoming warchief.
    Posted by PMDStrandbeest On 07 Jun 17 at 13:16
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