Haven't played this since it came out, but having a random dude interrupt my own execution and save my life was one of the coolest things.

This is one of the games that makes me think " How the hell can people give this a bad rating."

Once, I was so pissed at a captain who had killed me that I subsequently hunted him down and shamed him several times over until he had lost over 20 levels. At that point, his mind completely broke. It was then that I finally allowed him to die... meaning that I brutally murdered him. Probably the most ruthless thing I’ve ever done in a game 😈

This game is full of everything. I'm 42 and haven't played my video game everyday since I'm 15, but I just cant stop playing this game...every game should be like this one

I bought ONE look box.... that was from scraping the old weak gear. Got two captains. You don't need the boxes broski's, the whole game is meant to be a fun grind.

This game is fantastic and the loot boxes can safely be ignored. TIP 1 should be start on Nemesis difficulty and revel in getting your butt kicked.

I once fought an olog-hai named... Ur... something. Anyway,he was level 20 whereas I was level 12. He also was an epic captain, and had the epic graug call ability. So what I did was: shoot some meat to lure away the graug, stun the olog, and then ride him away to a safer location. We duel'd for a bit, and I broke him, shamed him, and went looking for him. Then I found him, got chased away by another captain, found him again, got chased away by the same captain, found him once more, almost killed him, dominated him, and commanded him to retreat. Thanks for reading my story, and have a great day!

im here from the future to inform anyone watching this that they have removed microtransactions !!!!!

Guys i found a way to easily kill war Chiefs overlords and captains What you do is go somewhere high up where no orc can climb up then use the shadow strike pull to pull the captain overlord or war chief over to you and they will take damage and then it is one vs one meaning no interruptions from other orcs your welcome

Another tip you should mention=Rush story long as you get dominate ability, then recruit everything! You will be having wide variety of orcs to compare and experiment

try to level up as much as u can before act II

worst thing is the champions always talk too much... some time it is fun, but all the time i feel like wasting time.

I only use specific gems for certain items. All my damage dealing weapons get warrior gems while my armor and cloak get life gems and my ring gets wealth

Two more tips Get the instant collect gear skill asap Stay in Chapter 1 as long as possible, you get a lot of EXP and items by killing captains and they stay pretty weak

Caragors do instant kills to captains after you knock them down , does not work on beastmasters , get a caragor make them howl Twice then u have two caragor following you until they die ,,,,, The slide to glave attacks is gold . Sliding is everything in this game . Don’t use perfect counter for kills use it to gain back arrrows. Find the dagger that does 1 elf shot replenish every 25 sec , re-roll a gain might for every quick throw , use the skill throw 5 daggers at once , and hit one enemy close enough just right , you get full might , and 6 arrows every 35 sec , very nice for early or end game .

I'm late but just now bought the game. I think I'll be doing the perfect counter kill, and ground drain, I really find it difficult to drain mid combat.

I have recently downloaded and played Middle Earth Shadow Of Mordor and Shadow of War on Xbox One and they are awesome games 🙂. I find these tips very useful since i started to play Shadow of War . Thank you 🙏🏻

This game is amazing. No joke my whole search history and recommended is this game

Love that this is made by someone who literally just started.

The quickest way to level up is to complete all the captain killing/luring out challenges for areas on the map (they have orange chevrons on the map) - usually the XP is between 2,000 - 9,000. It's always handy to bring your best recruited Captain as a bodyguard if things get hairy (I use Epic/Legendary orcs as bodyguards). A couple challenges and you'll level up. Plus you get the loot. The best weapon to defeat Captains in the throngs of orcs is the Glaive with Deadly Striker skill extension (clicking square after creating glaive provides an effective method of crowd control), also 'shadow kill striking' a captain's entire retinue before engaging is a great way to increase your odds. If you issue a Death Threat the captain will show up without his huge retinue and is easier to kill. Recruiting Captains in the middle of big groups of attacking orcs is hard, there is a skill point to increase the speed of Dominate which helps a little, but always good to thin out the crowd a bit. Shooting captains with exploding head shots (Detonate skill) is a great way to stand back and kill from a distance. Even better if they explode and take out nearby orcs too. If you really must engage always sneak up from behind and Brutalise a Captain before finishing him off by pinning his feet (Pinning Skill) and more headshots and a couple executions and maybe some dagger bursts. If a Captain is mounted always kill his Caragor before engaging. If the captain is significantly of higher level then order a couple orcs to kill him, watch them and if they are getting beaten jump in with your bodyguard after healing them and you should overwhelm the fella, you will probably need to shame him to bring I'm down a few levels before trying again to recruit him. If you kill a higher level orc then you get great loot.

also a nice tip, poisoning grog and shoot at it greats Balefire witch is ekstremly powerful!:D

Good tips the game is way better then the first won

So many loot box comments smh... This game isn't pay to win I've sunken many hours into it and I'm getting a great experience and I haven't spent a dime more then the 60 dollar price tag... for you saying it's p2w pls explain how because honestly if your talking online conquest you know nothing about the game. The defending team don't lose their orcs/warcheifs and overlords so you don't just set up your fort, then leave, then come back to an obliterated army. The only time you lose orcs is when you are the one raiding and you can tell by the defense rating if your ready or not so it's your fault if your army gets decimated. If you haven't bought the game because of all these people who say it's p2w, don't listen to them I'm pretty sure 99% of people WHO HAVE THE GAME agree that it's not p2w and you still get the full experience without spending a penny.

Honestly one of the best games I have ever played like binge playing this for hours its crazy good

Love the game. Havent bought a loot box yet. Actually feel like dropping the cash for the expansion pass. AC Origins and SoW are my GOTY.

This is tutorial stuff the game already tells you. Plus a perfect counter does not kill an orc instantly it throws them on the ground leaving them open for a ground execution. This litterly the game’s explanation for it. It could be an upgrade for the skill but then it would be nice to be informed about that from the guy making the video. FYI tips and tricks involve ways were you personally have found an easy approach to do something. Not just listing the basic most early skills you get. Simple point how do you get them quickly ? Beginners might have a better chance actually getting the skill that way. That could’ve actually been a usefull trick or tip. I see more usefull tips and tricks in the comment section than your entire video.

If idiots want to buy loot instead of earning it, let them miss out.

I hate loot boxes but with this game it barely effects the game. Its a Good Game. Its not like Battlefront II

This game does have its really tough parts though so make sure you have a variety of weapons to effect a range of enemies. I started a captain battle once & ended up being ambushed by 3 others. Let me tell ya 4 v 1 is tough especially when only 1 of the captains had a lower level than Talion

Ultimate Tip: set difficulty to brutal then level up enemy orc captains to lvl 80. Play the missions where two enemy captains are executing, raiding, chasing one another. Do not engage just wait until one or the other die/ flee. You get up either way as long as you don't die. If you set difficulty to normal after every enemy orc captains are max level you can attempt to shame them thus getting XP. Rinse repeat.

Talk about difficulty. There have already been two early on fights that have made we want to rip my hair out. It's fun but reminds me why I hated the beginning of the first game times ten.

Hands down my favourite game ive bought this year its such a long game with many side missions to do. If you get bored with this game its your own fault. & no you don’t have to any loot boxes. I only bought two with the in currency i earned over time & realised its way more fun to play without using them. Plus if you save your Mirian upgrades its makes the game a lot better early on for slight advantages

Thank you second tip was the best for me

Been loving this game. The multi executions is dope.

I really need to get that second might bar.

i had like 3 captians turn up once in one nemisis mission i took out two...

I wake up wanting to play this for the combat alone. It’s really fluid and i really like mowing down orcs over and over again.

Some captain killed my favorite Uruk so I hunted him down and brutally killed him and his followers in my favorites name. Shoulda shamed him a bunch but I was too angry to think that through

Just got this game for my 16th birthday and IT'S. SO. FUN.

just need to learn to recruit for a few of my legendary weapon finds

You should make a video about the army cause it can be very overwhelming at the beginning

It's funny how am here because of ps plus, and this is a xbox channel...

Finally a indepth video on play essentials brilliant!

The fastest way to make Mirian is to do pit fights and sell the weapons you get. Rinse and repeat.

Can't wait to get this game!!!!!

I’m new to Shadow of Mordor & War and I really hope they create a 3rd installment 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Thanks for the help with gems! Maybe show more detail on each gem.

Thanks I really appreciate this! very informative and I like your accent lol

White Wealth on a cloak or arm-thanks, I'm sure that'll help why I get Shadow of War on my birthday

My sword makes it wear my glave charge attack does an explosion, I have an ability the allows me to double charge and the as long as I tap left mouse trigger I can continue with 4 or 5 more explosions. It’s really powerful

Great Game!!! It plays and feels like a good mixture of Batman: The Arkham series and Assassins Creed. With a Far Cry skill tree lol. Fun game to nerd out too

Man we need more lord of the rings games on Xbox ❤️

well done....best tips I've seen for this game

Really fantastic video, thanks for sharing.

This was very informative, thanks.

Great game make one for the series x and s

Thx for the vid i pre ordered the game so this helps

Didn't know about the substat for invisibility. Looks really dirty if you know a captain or overlord's patrol route that doesn't lead him toward buildings or bushes.

Nice vid, good tips. Would help if you can explain the game UI a bit .I couldnt figure out where the might meter was and when does holding X come into play

I wish a lot of games were like this ugh. I felt overpowered and had a lot of fun.

I got sword does explosion ever glaive hit so op those weapon challenges

Great video.

This game was great, but even better now that I know how to play it, and for some reason I don't know how to play but last night I beat shadow of mordor.

Man why no one understand that those are uruk-hai. uruk-hai are smarter than orks. Thare are olog-hai too. Olog-hai are smarter then normal ologs. Normal ologs walk on hands and legs. Sorry for my bad English(:0

Best trick is to wait a year or two and buy the game of the year and have all the stuff, minus the marketplace.

i just picked this up for $19.99, so far so good

Great guide man!

All of this stuff is literally talked about in the tutorial...

Mirian? I did the campaign and got nearly 150.000 of it

The fastest way to get Mirian is to do the fight fits for a long time them dismantle all the gear you get

I just got another orc who cheated death fifth time. It’s a walking lump of metal at this point. But I like the way he’s so persistent about me😅

If you want to recruit Orcs as one of your followers, play through only Story missions until Act 2. Don't be like me where I spent too long in Minas Ithil killing orcs, whilst they get replaced after u die :I.

I miss shadow of mordor's rune system made your weapon feel unique.

Who else got this game recently because it was free on PS4?

brutalize kill builds up might meter faster...imo

9:13 how to get HEAD in shadow of war

Im here bc of Gamepass

So when i get a legendary level 15 but im level 30 , should i destroy it or upgrade it?

Whenever I perfect counter, in my case, Talion stuns an enemy and not execute them but in your video, he's executing enemies. How can I achieve that.

I have replayed Shadow of War several times and not once have i gotten the cloak that grants you invisibility

So Nemesis system basically means we all have different Orcs captions and war chiefs?

Is that BennyCentral I hear? 😳

My daily challenges don't all reset every day only one or so do it's annoying

The orcs look amazing in 4k

It's weird how a beautiful game like Shadow of War looks so grainy, pixelated and blurred in a console. I guess the video encoding artifacts don't help either.

Advance tip: if you suck at last chance.. no worries... keep on reviving your bleeding captain and he will save you :)

The game is incredible and does not require you to buy loot boxes at all. Just like overwatch but they’re even less prevalent in this game.

these guys need to show assassin creed devs how to make fighting fun.

Does anyone know if there's enough levels to get every skill in this game or do you actually need to make "builds"?

I love this game its so satisfying

Credit for the comment on orc culture, made me laugh. Cheers

Yo I didn’t even know that counter thing loooool

I hate the controls. I don’t like that sprint is x...can’t turn if you’re holding x down

I love shadow of war ❤

I love this game

Well in benny

This game is mint so worth getting

Love this game

I feel they make it silly to get a legendary recruit I fought one to high a level so I shamed him down only to do it over and over again till I just gave up and killed him , so it makes me think they do it on purpose to force you to buy a gold chest to get a legendary recruit, they will let you get weapon but they make it ridiculous even the legendary overlord they make him a higher level than you so you can’t recruit. But I still like the game and I’m not buying anything , just hope you got the pre order 4 legendary or you won’t see many till your level 45

wow i went through the game without knowing that i can ride a troll, wouldve made my fight against them alot ezier