sword: undead dagger: undead bow: mystic tribe armor: mystic tribe cloak: undead ring: undead necromancer build

"Acharn. The legendary dagger. Forever cursed. Its original owner long forgotten" I just realized that that's the description for it, and, as it was Talion's son's.... Ouch....

"I'm immortal, I am banished from death, why should my allies be spared of such a blessing?" I guess is what he'd say

Waters of Lorien is actually very viable if you get that one Nazgul mask that not only still fills the Waith set, but also makes Waters of Lorien free to cast.

This is why your overlord should ALWAYS be arrow-proof

This is definitely my favorite build.

For anyone playing SoW in 2020, Potates says it doesn’t really matter if you use poison/fire/ice, and it depends on what the captains are weak to, and he’s mostly right, but keep in mind your undead soldiers are immune to poison and weak to fire.

Honestly, i like this build, not because of the op assistants, but because it symbolizes going from the ground up. You are one man, but as you put in more effort and overtake more obstacles, you (and youre army) get stronger, with more people helping you. As you do more and more, you get what you deserve, an army.

For the detonate, if you are doing an undead creature build, use the Matron's call. You can resurrect the ghuls after they die and it just adds to the minion count.

My necromancer build is a bit different. Though it may be due to me playing on nemesis from the jump. Also, you CAN raise dead captains in the world. My build is as follows. I'll only list the differences. I use Fury on ground finisher. Shadow Strike to one grunt, or even a captain, they're auto-downed, and just go. Bam. You get one Might bar right there. I use Adamant for obvious reasons. I use the Spectral Dash because mobility is king. Bursting toxin because, funny enough, it counts when you poison enemies, period. A poisoned Elven Light becomes brutally crippling. I got with Brutalizing Presence to pick off stragglers and build up Might. Might is key. For Detonate, unless there's a tough captain particularly weak to ghuls, I"m using spiders. each spider is basically a dead body and they follow you. Deep Freeze is my choice because, again, mobility is king. Whether that's by increasing your own or further limiting theirs. Pinning an Olog might sound good, but quick pinning a group of enemies and quickly killing the olog while they can only watch is much better. Eagle Sight beats the smash attack for me. I can easily pick off like 6-7 grunts and STILL have the focus left to Shadow Strike for Fury on the captain or last grunt to gain Might. I KEEP firestorm for Mighty Shot. I don't even care if they become enraged. It's too easy to poison enemies, and there's always a grog around to quick poison and immediately firestorm for some epic Balefire. That's more fire and more poison to spread around. Shadow Dominate is a firm lock. Chain of Shadows is good, but it's not the end all be all for Talion is this game because he has a lot of versatility to work with this time around. Shadow dominate is a good way to get that captain you want if you're too far away and your horde is about to kill them, catch a runner, or even just gain some health. Swift barrage is a permanent for Brace of Daggers because you can actually aim that and rely on the damage. You toss out three quick ones and you've down grunt or captain and can go for the ground execute into Fury for more might. Again, Might is key, not dominate. Shower of ice is a VERY solid pick all around when the captain has adapted or has vault breaker. You use it on a grunt and even a defender nearby is frozen. Allows you to focus targets while they're all frozen. I go Olog on Consume because... well... I don't use it much. I save Might for Raise Dead > Elven Light > Mighty Shot and of course Execute on captains to whittle them down. I just perfect counter grunts. Leaves them with their heads. Severed head = no undead. Raise Dead I go with Ologs. I can easily dominate a caragor and sacrifice it to call out three more if I need them. Having ologs at your back is a big boon though, especially when taking or defending a fort. I only use the captain one in menus, but again, you CAN use it open world. The times I do use it is when a captain I wanted dies in the pit fight, the npc takes his place. You can't raise him from the menu. Just have to hope they weren't dismembered. I think you're GRAVELY underestimating packmaster. Caragors don't travel alone. Ever. Unless you're getting one from a cage, there's always 2-3 more around. All it takes is one charged headshot to break one, not even a fully charged one. That kills. Then you shadow mount and all others join your side. That's ESPECIALLY handy when a beastmaster is riding one and calling them. You turned his pack against him and even the one he's riding throws him off (auto daze) and starts attacking him. For Drain, I go Bright Lord's Wrath. That's why I don't focus on dominating. Wrath has a very important use and, in times when you REALLY need health, like after succeeding a last chance and being surrounded, or fighting a poison trickster that has javelins, or anything like that, chances are you're not going to get much chances for dominating. A quick shadow dominate has you and full health and back in the fight. You don't need dominated grunts because you have uber undead. Dominated grunts and undead are not the same. Undead, by in-game definition are unbreakable and immune to domination. Mighty Swing for me. Deadly Striker leaves you way too open when it actually matters. A jumping attack from behind or enraged enemy will take issue. Quickly knock everyone down, then flow with your actual combos or might abilities. Also, more might, from the ability itself, or following up with a quick Fury while everyone is down. I always go with Clutch of Spiders for call followers, unless using a very reliable bodyguard during a siege to back me up with the overlord. While the set bonus may give you undead, I say again, each spider is another body as they always kill. That also gives more poison to play with. The spiders actually follow you for quite a bit, and if you're running, they give you stealth still, as the followers will just attack. Three stronger undead are cool, but more than twice that will be uber anyway is better. For items, I run perfect warrior on armor, cloak and ring. You don't need extra life as a buff if one drain heals you to full. I run the perfect life on the weapons. I'm thinking about changing the dagger and ranged to warrior though. I want to be able to one shot ologs when I do stealth ambushes. Only happens if a critical for now. As for items, I ran the entire Ringwraith, but changed to Bright Lord's bow and Armor for a while. More wrath = easily enrages, but I miss the almost endless elf-shot of using Helm's Hammer since you can always daze captains (raised dead have cursed weapons. i've tried playing around with Ringwraith to see if that affects it, but it doesn't. Seems to be a default thing) by having every viable attack at my fingertips, and just picking up elf shot as I roamed around otherwise. I also just got used to hammer and the explosions, which, again, lets you turn caragors to your side instead of killing them in one go. Wrath also wasn't much of a problem between Flurry, Furry and Brutalize. So I left it at Helm's hammer. I actually change between Epic body armor depending on the situation. My go to is an armor that lets me take no poison dmg, and applies poison on criticals. I also have one that reduces dmg from enraged enemies by 75% and has a chance to ignite enemies and another that reduces dmg from enraged enemies by 80% and criticals apply frost. If I need to exploit curse, I just got back to the Ringwraith body. Poison is just nasty, making you slower, can't use Shadow abilities and ticks far more than curse or fire, while also stripping Might. I still get slowed and lose might, but no lingering dmg, and might is easy to gain. With this build, I always have an army on screen, and they are CRAZY strong. I've had a lv41 regular undead slayer kill a 65 legendary shield tank, only got down to half health, from using just ONE enrage. The half health was because there was a 65 Olog destroyer with a master flame weapon, flame thrower, epic fire bombs and fire mines putting in work. He promptly destroyed him with the second enrage, all while I'm just slaughtering grunts and keeping my army up. Constant poison, spiders and Balefire also fit the necro theme.

U can actually revive a Captin in the world. As long as they don't die from execution. If they die from something like bleeding out then u can hurry up and revive them before their body can disappear

DISCLAIMER: undying loyalty locks you to only 4 undead rised per use of "rise dead" so only use it when needed. Also it stops ur undead followers from gaining cursed weapons when rised with brutal might.

Just got the gear today, glad I found this! I'll use this build for a while and see how it goes. Up until this point, I've been using another build that I've really enjoyed - the Bright Lord Build - would make for a good video. They showed off this build in one of the early dev streams. There are two variants - elf shot and wrath. The elf shot variant uses skills that give elf shot, which combine with the focus regain on the gear to allow for crazy shadow strike chains. It uses a simple progression: 1. Shadow strike chain 2. Shadow strike (use remaining elf shot) 3. Consume chain for more elf shot 4. Drain for elf shot It's a simple build, but very rewarding to use. The second build is the wrath build, which takes advantage of the 50% quicker wrath gain / 50% shorter duration that you get from the gear set. I haven't used this much up until now, but I haven't tried it since I unlocked the Nazgul skills, so I'll give that a go. P.S: Hammer of Eregion / Waters of Lorien is incidental. The former is generally better, but the latter lets you get past vault breakers.

Ringwraith Legendary Set 1) use shoulder charge to knock down an orc; 2) ground drain him; 3) then you can find that this orc can be stealth killed; 4) use chain stealth kill, you can kill four more orcs around when your focus is full; 5) Ringwraith set ability: those 5 victims has 50% chance to be ressurected as allies. now you can spread your undead army in battle field

I like it! Really gives the feeling of being a nazgul!

No spoilers you say.... 1:13 Urfael was the name of your weapon in the first game, "Newest of the nine Nazgul." I'm only on act 2 but now I'm worried lol

Potates if you activate the counter that gives might and not fatal if you ground execute you have 50% chance of raising instead of 25%

When your attacking a fort and accidentally explode all of your followers heads...

One thing youre missing with Hammer of Eregion ability (jumping over and frezzing enemy) at least 2/5 of captains can cancel it and 5/5 can adapt to this ability so then its only usefull on regular soldiers . Water of Lorien cant be canceled or adapted to so if you have focus you can easly use it to attack enemy from behind. So in my opinion its much better. But overhaul great build and awesome video :) Keep up the good work :D

Seems to me that when you have Undying Loyalty active, the skill the raises captains, LESS Undead is risen if any at all when using the Raise Dead ability. Many more soldiers rise if I have the raise dead Olog ability on instead. I believe its a bug.

Waters of Lorien is not useless, you can use it to dash past enemies that have adapted to your vaulting, or rather... to prevent them from adapting to vaulting. If you run out of focus and you vault over an orc and they adapt to it, then dashing past them becomes an issue. But if you pre-emptively try to not waste your focus, they'll never stop you, which helps a lot.

My fave build but I tweaked it a bit to my liking WHAT I did was change the armour and hood to vengeance all the rest as ring wraith gear pretty much your the undead Lord because you can get your health back from the life gem when flurryingyour frozen enemy you can use the set 1 vengeance gear bonus to use 40% of your health to keep raising the dead but thanks for the brilliant idea and it's really helping me in shadow of war

the necromancer build is going to be the default after you finish the game, it is all about skills that drastically improve the experience thx for info

28:30 You are the genius dude. That tactic against overlord is wonderfull!

Hears Potates say high ground many times. Me: "It's over Sauron. I have the high ground!"

One thing I noticed is that you are avoiding fearing enemies (so they don't run away), yet you have the cloak that causes enemies to flee when you raise dead. In place of that cloak, I like the one that allows infinite spectral dashing, because it is faster and allows more maneuverability, and dashing through enemies generates might. I've found that the freeze-vault is kind of problematic, because I'll jump over an uruk and then try to hit someone next to him, but then I'll get stuck in a flurry with the guy I jumped over and get hit by another uruk because I can't counter. I generally prefer to have more of a say as to when I am freezing them.

You might want to avoid anything based around fire with your undead followers

This looks like an AMAZING build. I don't have Shadow of War yet but I'll definitely be trying it when I do.

This set synergizes with the vendetta set so well

I actually prefer Waters of Lorien with this build because of Mask of the Undying (a Nazgul mask you get for completing stage 1/2 of the Shadow Wars) which makes it so Waters of Lorien doesn't consume Focus. It just becomes op because you also charge up some might when you flash through an enemy and therefore can just zip around the battle field and raise the dead.

I wish Helm's Nazgúl mask summoned ghuls or something when you "raise dead" ability, like you summon wights with Isildur Mask.

My necromancy build is the same for the most part but instead of fatal counter I use mighty reversal paired with wraith shield to gain might while keeping a nice flow of death so to speak - domination of grunts becomes less important to me because of how many dead I acquire. I also use waters of Lorien because A - it usually gets past the Vault breaker/ acrobatics issue ( which was show in the video ) and it just makes me feel more wraith like. I can agree with the arcane bow but I really prefer the look of the wraith armor so I opt for the arcane sword ( which I pair with wraith executions against grunts )

Reasons to use waters of lorien: 1)it counters orcs that are immune to/adapted to everything. 2) the generic nazgul mask is right there

Yes! A new build video and this one looks awesome. Something to look forward to post game and work on getting

if a captain dies while near you like a duel or ambush that you are watching you can raise them by using your raise dead ability next to them it's how i got my lvl 60 armor i did it by accident when my body guard died from poison.

I could see an entirely terror based build working well

Nice, been waiting for this one. Keep it up, my man!

I find this set up really good but found it more fun and easy to do a: wraith sword, wraith dagger, outlaw bow, online armour, online cloak and outlaw ring. The online ability letting you use your health over and over again to constantly raise the dead without much delay

I love this game, but I *really* hate switching between skills. The stupid slow menu's everytime break up the immersion and cool action. I would really love a mod to just assign anything you want. But I think this game cannot be modded...sadly. At least couldn't find anything. Great vid & channel btw, subbed!

I wish that ur army’s armor becomes green after the game ends

I had no idea about the pull skill. Wow how useful

Drakes are one of the higher health creatures but get targeted hard by a lot

I guess there is something wrong with me then. (Prepare for the Triggering.) I don't prefer hammer of eregion over the jumping ability.

I know that I'm a few years late to the conversation, but I just bought this game (for 5 fuckin dollars!) and I'm loving it! I just beat it, so now I can do the necromancer awesomeness, and holy shit.. I fucking love it! There is just something magical about standing at the head of a vast and every growing army of undead orcs. I'm drunk with power!

I love your shadow of war vids. Keep it up with the good builds

from a resurrection POV, I would only recommend that you head over to Minas Morgul, I've noticed that Necromancer Orcs spawn there. At first I simply disregarded it until the Uruk followed me all the way to seregost. Then I realized that they can resurrect Ologs and captains, I'm not sure if they can resurrect beasts or not.

15:53 but sometimes you can freeze ur own uruk. And even if you don't, if a captain has freeze immunity, and also has a shield, he gets fucking annoying QUICKLY.

Dude I’ve never seen the pull done before, that’s awesome 👏🏼👏🏼

Other good versions include any with the mask of undying instead, mystic dagger and bow, or mystic dagger and ring, one skips on damage from your raised, while the other skips on stealth kills raising them often Edit: also if you have an arcane ring with the allied uruks take 50% less damage your undead take 91% less damage with the perfect life gem, however a vendetta set bonus can work instead of the insane damage reduction due to healing from every undead dying again, could theoretically just spam raise dead

15:50 I use the blink, it doesn't consume Focus if you have a certain cloak on so you are basically invincible, except you get insta downed of course

I love shadow strike chain as it's great for killing all the things

I just got the game and can’t wait to play

Waters of lorien is good on nemesis difficulty when fighting vault breakers

I wouldn't have survived or had a good time in many battles if it wasn't for the Vault freeze perk upgrade.

So good that ur honest about spoilers.

I love using this build when attacking overlords because it makes it way easier to focus on just the overlord

“I am banished from death. And now so is my army”

+potates i know this is 7 months later, but i thought id share my undead for gravewalker runs. i run life steal on dagger and 4 piece undead 2 piece vengence. with the raise oleg perk and the enrage followers perk, i can turn thier strongest 'grunt' unit into an unstoppable machine. i had 5 regular grunts keeping 2 captains occupied on gravewalker. thats insane. once you got all the grunts dead and raised them, the captain cant even fight back once you enrage them. why vengence 2 piece? for those that have mighty damage, or aoe tanks. raise those that fell, grab a undead and shank for life back, then toss him away to be used again. you can infinitly raise them like this. its simple to run into a group of enemies with full might, double elven light into double raise dead, them enrage and shank for health without getting hit.

That dk country music at the end haha. Nostalgia

I have a weird question, would really appreciate it someone could answer. Any idea how the domination animation changes for talion? The og is with the cloak on, there's another one without the cloak and kind of like a mask on talions face. Would really love to know how to get it.

I want a young Celebrimbor skin that gives you the wraith back again and Elven Rage, maybe get the voice actor to do a few lines and make him fully playable it is meant to be his and Talion s story not just talions, I do prefer Celebrimbor though personal preference. Something about playing as the elf lord is better than Talion and I can’t figure out why

Had to sub after seeing potatoes

I find waters of lorien is good late game cause captains are usually immune to almost everything so blinking and striking is very good

Love this build man. Very O-P. He's like a vampire-wraithlord-necromancer. Awesome!

You should do more builds

You definitely need to update this build

So I’m really late, but if you complete the new Shadow Wars, use the Mask of the High King. Instead of resurrecting uruks you summon Gondorian Wights. I called it the Gondorian Gang Bang cause you can summon a max of 6, and they can’t be killed (they do have a timer though) Get them all to focus one captain, and the captain won’t be able to do anything to you.

If you switch out the 2 mystic pieces for 2 terror set pieces, you can instantly kill the grunts that run away from raise dead, so you can resurrect t hem

I wish we could somehow get that sound effect for the Raise Dead ability, it's just so dang good.

I paired this with my undead necromancer bodyguard...yeah that’s a lot of zombie uruks, ologs, and caragors for an assault or just mucking around. By the time I reached the overlord in a siege, just about everything that had died belonged to me. Then switched to the iron guard when facing the overlord. Also tried it with him as an assault leader and it too was nuts

Love your streams over many others bro !

I wonder if a commander uses war banner do your undead grunts also gain enrage from it

How you handled the overlord using shadow pull, pure genius

For Minas Morgul... I find every Olog-Hai there is and I dominate them... I give them Fire Warder and I kill them... I THEN RESURRECT THEM and give them Poisonous Weapon... I make some of them Legendaries(probably half of em) and DONE.Minas Morgul is the ultimate Undead Capital...Full of Poisonous Olog-Hai who are not that Flammable...

I'm toying with the idea of using the 2pc bright lord set and 4pc necromancer for a sort of "lich king" build, using frost aoe skills and such while cranking out loads of undead via passive raises, reinforcement summons, and wrath minions.

so i find build op to use with overlords and online vendettas, basically any area or captain that keeps on summoning orcs is basically endless army in return for you

If you use Nazgul mask with waters of Loren it doesn’t consume focus so it’s op as

I Found A Necromancer Yesterday Man Is He Fuckin Awesome Just Revives Everything That Dies Overwhelming Other Captains & Wsr Chief's

I use waters of lorien simply because when captains have vault breaker they're such a pain in backside. Especially if they're agile, have a shield, are a savage etc. Also, if they're enraged by frost or acrobatics you'll prock it with hammer if eregion. And finally one of the ringwraith cloaks you get makes it cost no focus, and immediately it's so much better. I think it's actually faster than running.

An updated one would be all undead (ringwreath mask) except for the ring and bow those would both be mystic tribe

I made two of my orcs legendary then killed them for the armour and bow. One of them said “I don’t know what I did to you ranger, but I hope you know what your doing” might not be the real one but it’s accurate.

The only thing I disagree with is the hammer of eregion skill. In nemesis difficulty, you have enemies adapting much quicker. At most you'll only be able to flip over 3 times...with water of lorien you can go through them even if they've adapted.

I find it funny how you don't say any spoilers but Talion is in his dark form and the item descriptions make it obvious.

Haha what made me come back to this game is that they added a prestige system!!! AND EVEN HIGER GEAR + Didn't know THEY WENT FULL OFF FROM MICROTRANSACTIONS!!!

Imagine being a weak Orc then prove your self by chance killing 2 or 3 other orcs and you are noticed by other captains and you kill one in their sleep (By very rare chance by them sleeping at all) and you become a machine commander because you don't like how Savage the warmongers are and you become the smart, important part of the army of sauron, then you become a warchief, then you become the over lord's bodyguard because you have alot of power within the region you rule, then you become overlord, then a undead human with a ring that has (basically) mind control and bending the will of others to his own then realizing the rise and fall of a orc is because of Talion, The Gravewalker

Nice one, i like terror too...noone stays for too long to fight u while u try to face a captain.. :)

I have a very similar build. Although I recommend using an Arcane Sword and Dagger for those situations where you already have a bunch of grunts (like during a siege).

Thank you for the vid bro. Very badass !

Tip of you just use ringwraith geer the olog hai captains cant destroy it because its Unique

You can raise captains in the world, but you have to do it right after they die.

You can replace the ringwraith armor and hammer with the vendata armor and bow

I mix up my builds and abilities. My quick throw does fire. My bow has a chance of poison. My dagger has a chance to raise the dead. My sword an extreme damage boost. My cloak, I forgot. My ring gives +4 levels to new followers. And... Eh I forgot the rest. Point is I mix up my builds to all do different shit

I’m using this build but with vendetta sword and bow while everything else is Ringwraith. Green gems for all weapons, red for armour and green for ring. The idea is to have all my attacks absorb health and use that to raise dead constantly.

Interested to see how the new wraith armour and masks will change how effective undead are :^)

"No story spoilers" Urfael: "Blade carried by the newest of the nine Nazgul." Isildur's Ring: "Taken from the hand of Isildur by the newest of the Ringwraiths." Talion: Pale with yellow eyes. Celebrimbor: MIA.

i love using an armour set that causes explosions when im on fire and my sword has the ability to cause explosions when i charge my glaive attack and double charging it is so much fun :P

I like this build but my favorite is basically the same with the outlaw bow and armor. It works really well for a reasonably aggressive playstyle; and especially with higher level captains. Obviously this is a pure necro build but I kind of took the ideas from this video and adapted it to what is most effective for me. Great vids btw!

I don't use hammer of erigon since I play a commander/necromancer build. Always surrounded by followers and I don't want to accidentally stun them. Unless they're enraged by frost. Makes sense to me to not use it.

I'm not the best at this game so I have problems with the overlords haha. But that was pretty helpful and intelligent when you pulled him and singled out so thank you.

...You should really try Waters of Lorien for "Flashing past them" . I imagine someone has told you this before considering how many videos you make, but that skill is AMAZING for any captain with Vault Breaker, and amazing against Olog captains. Yeah it costs Focus, but when you blink through an enemy, it stuns him, opening his back to you for a free combo that can easily chain into an endless combo to knockdown, opening him for ground pound if you use that skill. I used to use the freeze kick skill, used it until level 40~, then tried Waters, and never looked back. Biggest reason? Some captains are frost immune, while no captains are teleport immune. EDIT addition: The Destroy Followers skill works with the 4/4 set bonus for Necromancer, and will give you health back when you pop their heads. A good last resort emergency heal.