"He is not yours to enslave." *"ALL OF MODOR IS BEING SLAVED! BY US!"*

14:30 Funny thing about humans in Middle Earth, they are unbound from fate, they make their own destinies. Elves, on the other hand, are bound by destiny. Sauron is a Maiar, one of the beings that controls the foundations of the world, a mid tiered and fallen one, but a Maiar all the same. So yeah, when Calebrimbor switched away to an elven host, he had already lost.

"...and maybe mod in an old friend." Shows picture of Prak Jaws. U WOT MATE?!

“I serve no one” *echoes of Morgoth reeeing in the void*

Brett the entire game: *wants to join the Nazgul* Talion: *actually does it* Brett: Are you _insane?_

If you end it, you'll become what Ranger said: “You are the cruel one, Gravewalker.”

There's actually a reason as to why the One Ring slipped off Isildurs hand. It is canonically stated that rings of power have minds of their own. So the One Ring deemed it a good time to leave Isildur as to one day go back to Sauron. Which as we've seen from the books and movies, came very close in doing so. Also as a side note I do hope you continue playing this game for awhile after you have beaten it like you did Shadow of Mordor. I always find it enjoyable for you to find ways to continue to make fun in this series and now with more to do than SoM the fun can go on longer.

“The inability to die while having no face rendered” Apply cold water to that burn Nazgul.

If Celebrimbor was the Bright Lord, and Sauron was the Dark Lord, does this mean you're the Edge Lord? Because nazgul Talion looks like an emo

*I was waiting for Kruk to suddenly betray you and Prak Jaws to rise giggling from his shit laden grave*

Have you noticed that throughout the game Celabrimbor becomes more and more and more like his Grandfather Fëanor? proud, obsessed over his creation , Power-hungry, and willing to abandon his allies . I guess Thorin Oakenshield was not the only one who was in danger of becoming his grandfather.

Me: fortress defense. (if the enemy captures all the points your overlord will come out to fight.) All the points were captured. Me: HA! My overlord Bruz is gonna tear you a new one! Bruz: I DON'T WANT THE FORT! YOU CAN HAVE IT! Me: Goddamnit Bruz.

I was genuinely sad when Horza got axed, he deserved better

Oh please keep doing this series man. This is gonna be amazing XD

I always liked the idea of games letting you use a power used by the enemy. Whether it be a dark force, or so forth, it was always cool. I particularly like essentially becoming a phazon entity in Metroid Prime 3.

Noooooo! Don't end this!

May Horza rest with the greats of Bretts army. His name will be ingraved with the top legends of this army, along with. Kruk the bloodaxe Feldush Giggles And The Legions ( forgot his first name) R.I.P I hope you finally get that trophy of your.

The machine taken down Deranged has forever a frown Bret once again has bound A new chapter, and by his sound He is not happy at all Maybe we will see the fall Of Saurons defeat soon. People hate rhymes, I know it But they loved a certain poet That made Bret laugh, and grin When the luck archer has His legs broke in, And they think he has class. If my poetry isn't your preference Maybe find a better reference For your eyes are not working.

I really hope you don't disregard and throw off the Shadow Wars because you've heard bad things about it. I heard bad things too, but I enjoyed playing this game so much I decided to grind through what I thought was going to be a long and monotonous trudge. It took me weeks, but I actually enjoyed every bit of it. I interacted with so many cool Uruks, went through saviors, betrayals, and lost my forts more times than I could count, but every bit was so interesting and weaved my own personal story deeper and deeper, and it made me love my loyal Uruks more and more. If you read this Brett, I really encourage you to play through. If you really power through, it may take you around 10 hours to complete the Shadow Wars, but it's better to take your time. But please, please don't end this fucking fantastic series you have.

It's so poetic that during the entire game the wraiths always were inviting Talion to the dark side when it was his fate all along. Great ending 10/10

Rest In Peace ruined we all loved you

Honestly, I feel like you'd like the Shadow Wars, considering how much you like just mucking about with the various captains rather than story missions.

8:01 it slipped because *Spoilers* well kinda The one ring re shapes itself to remove from anyone's finger who's finger isn't the dark lord's.

12:17 I reacted the same way, I weirdly love video games where you’re the clear bad guy, and was kind of upset that he’s still trying to be good. He was betrayed by said good side but won’t join the bad side

Okay. Brett. I am legitimately going to offer advice for the Shadow Wars. This is where most of the gameplay length is because it has as much grinding as an MMO achievement list. I'm going to make this in a list style so it is easier to read and to even copy paste wherever because the pain I felt can surely be mitigated by helping others. 1. Leveling. Now this is a tad "duh" marker but it is the most important one by tell. The Shadow Wars are a series of 10 Fortress Stages. You begin by having each fortress be attacked and you and your army are defending it. I will go more into detail about Fortress battles later. The important thing to talk about now is getting to level 60. Something I will abuse if I do ever start a new playthrough is to always use a Double XP for every single story mission. Starting sooner helps a lot but I didn't really start using them until shortly before starting Act III. I was anywhere between 48-51 at completion and starting Shadow Wars. The skills you get are not important because by now you have everything you want. What is important is getting every Uruk you have to your current level and to the end goal of 60. Level 60 is when your Uruks are at their strongest and during the final stages when you will be facing upwards of Level 64... you need the help. Each main mission completed gives an insane amount of XP, almost a level up regardless of level for the later ones. But, using a double XP for these gives even more and alleviates the grind and pain later. 2. Fortress. The fortress is what can make or break your sanity. If it is easy to break into then the battle is already loss. You will want to upgrade each and EVERY fortress to the highest level, which costs Mirian and completing the Champion Level Fight Pit. Each upgrade to the Fortress proper allows you to allocate another Orc to be a Warchief, up to a total of 6 Warchiefs. What each Warchief does for the fort itself is allow that level of upgrades to be applied to the fort via the Siege Menu. The Overlord himself, whose level is indeed irrelevant so have whoever you enjoy, allows the upgrades of your Fortress Walls. There are three types of walls but the only ones you will be needing are the Metal Walls. They provide the absolute most defense and in some cases can entirely prevent invaders from breaching. The first Warchief is in charge of door and wall defense. The outer walls can be used to poison or set aflame ologs trying to batter the walls or to reinforce the standard wood gates with iron. Pick Iron. Always. The second Warchief is in charge of what grunt troops will be present at the defense. The choices are savages, defenders or hunters. All are good choices but my favorite are the hunters. They stay away from enemy warchiefs and whittle their health away with spears. Plus you can semi safely drain them for health as they will be a distance away. The third warchief is in charge of the siege beasts. Siege beasts are pretty useless honestly. The first one is fire which targets enemy troops to set aflame. The second targets the enemies siege beats with poison to eliminate them. The third is curse which targets enemy captains. You could use them strategically but if you pick the poison one you will be fine. The fourth warchief is in charge of beasts, specifically which one shall wander the fortress. You can have a graug, caragors, the absolute best one, the caged dragon at the gates of the fortress. The dragon will breathe flames through the gate and roast incoming attackers. As long as an enemy does not have an immunity or rage to fire they will be burned or stunned, thus preventing them from attacking the gate. The fifth warchief is in charge of archers and spiked walls. Completely ignore the archers and picked the spiked walls. This completely prevents all troops from scaling the walls and forcing them to try to break them down or to use the front gate, where they will be roasted. Note. You can personally climb up the walls by going to the corner towers of the fortress by the main gate and proceeding to climb like normal. Only you can climb these structures. The six and final warchief is a bit lame and litters the battlefield with either fire or poison mines. Prior to a siege defense you can see the weaknesses of the invaders. Just pick the one that has the least immunities and enrages to it honestly. Both are helpful. 3. Leveling Orcs and Warchiefs. This is where Number 1 comes into play. No dominated Orc can be a higher level than you. So the higher your level, the higher theirs will be, the stronger they will be. You can take the extremely long way and level each, and every, single, orc, through a long chain of agonizing missions. Or you simply die for boredom and throw them into pit fights. Pit Fights are a reliable way of leveling orcs and getting loot which can be used to fund your fortress upgrades by getting Mirian. An important note is if your guy is losing, you can quit out of the game and reload it to restart the fight and keep the orc you worked so hard on alive. This is a useful cheese to get the Champion Level completed to get your final warchief also. Sadly this is an extremely boring way as it takes multiple wins to get them up tp level. It's best to do this in the background while you are watching a podcast or something. Something that is enough to keep your mind busy enough to where you can quit if need be. Note: You cannot send a Warchief to the pits. You will need to promote another captain to warchief to take their place while you level them. Warchiefs are the only ones present during a siege. You will want them to be your best fighters. You can hunt for specific classes of Uruks, essentially cheese the fort by having all ologs, or just find your personal favorite fighters. Tanks, Beserkers, and Defenders are always a safe bet. Beastmasters and Assassins can be devastating. But in the end it is up to you. Their mighty and legendary traits can be devasting if they are Heroic or Legendary. A high health, high damage, rampage berserker with more enrages than you can count can decimate an entire invading army single handedly. You can also assign bodyguards to warchiefs to further bolster your numbers. 4. Recruiting. Inevitable you will need to recruit uruks to your fortress. There are three ways to go about this. The ol' fashion way and finding them. Using your hundreds of thousands of Mirian to buy Uruks that are close to your level, or sacrifice week orcs in the Champion Fight Pits to get a high level, greatly powerful Uruk to recruit. All of these are acceptable and I've used them all. Hell. The Uruks that I got for pre ordering the game are still with me. 5.Defending a Fortress. Defending a Fortress is like attacking one but with a few extra twists. Each time the enemy captures a point ANOTHER watchief enters the fray that you must eliminate. This means not only are you trying to dispatch some of the toughest warchiefs and their bodyguards, you are trying to prevent them from getting reinforcements. This can be stressful but just try to isolate each warchief to the best of your ability. Hoped you honed and mastered your fighting prowess.You can cheese Warchiefs and their bodyguards by shaming them instead of killing them. A lot of tanks will be present in sieges and their Death Defying trait can become a hassle if you are ill prepared. Also letting your own warchiefs get the killing blows is a smart choice. 6. Failure. If you fail to defend the fort then you must then begin a Fort Assault to take it back. Just because of how long the Shadows Wars are already, avoid losing to the best of your ability. Attacking a fort will always be easier than defending one but it's not something you want to do on purpose. After the Fort Assault that mission will be complete. You do not then need to defend it. 7. Stages. There are ten stages of hell that are the Shadow Wars. The first four are easy then it becomes repetitive. The first four stages are defending each of the four fortresses in the game. Then the stages will be adding two defensives per stage. Then three. Then ultimately four. It's mentally draining defending the same fortresses multiple times and constantly having to relevel all of your Orcs again after stages. 8. Summoning. Spiders, Graugs, Dire Caragors, Dragons, Grunts, and Bodyguards. These are all helpful for a Fort Defense. Whether you are trying to exploit weaknesses, killing mass amounts of grunts, or even just summoning a bodyguard to ease the pressure off you. Summoning is an invaluable tool and something you should rightfully abuse. 9. Gear. Another simple one but invaluable nonetheless. You want your gear to synchronize with your build as best as possible and to have it as the highest level you can. Being able to regain all health on a stealth kill or being able to drain orcs faster is invaluable. And that is really all the advice I have. Hopefully it helps and man, you got a long road ahead of you.

am i literally the only person to enjoy the shadow wars?

Love the fact that its Hura the obsessed (who was nearly 30 levels down on him) is the one who finally ended the Machine...well assuming the Machine doesn't cheat death again.

4:04 I think Gore-Tide was enraged by the poison and that's why he killed Horza. Enraged captains attack everything in sight

Ladies and gentlemen... Today we witnessed the end of an era. It was a fun while it lasted.

And thus starts the story of edge-lord talion.

She-elf: This fort will never stand against a ghûl attack! Grace: thank you I worked very hard on it.

TearofGrace: People make the Shadow Wars seem as Too Much. However, really, if you want to to not be a drag, just let the Bad Armies take your regions when they attack, and then just reconquer them. That's easier and faster than trying to level up your Orcs and defending the regions.

I have to admit, even though I was betrayed by my once thought bro Cellary. This was probably the most 'cool' part of the game, Being Nazgul-Talion, was probably the most badass you'll ever feel in the game, even though technically you're supposed to be weaker, it makes you feel stronger by a gameplay perspective, with your new necromancy abilities. Also "I serve no one" lies, Sauron. We both know you have a master, he's just waiting a while before coming back.

HOLY CRAP SO THAT'S HOW YOU PRONOUNCE NVIDIA?!

Talion: I am not of darkness yet Bret: *smacks desk “COME ON”

GET ON WITH IT! *YES GET ON WITH IT!*

dont make this the last episode forgheloveof god

RIP ukrom the machine may he live on and cheat death

Am I the only one who was raging when celebrimbor betrayed me, but then couldn’t stop yelling in excitement when I was capturing Minas Morgul? I’m a bird ringwraith fan so becoming one was amazing

Iron Gates, Hellfire, and Iron Spikes are op when put together for defense sieges. Look at the enemies weakness to fire or poison and choose accordingly for mines and the siege beast. That should smooth it along pretty decently. Another tip is that if you want to change the Overlord, select him first then choose where you want to reposition him. Not the other way around. I hope you enjoy the true ending. As always good job and thanks for continuing this series.

BRET YOU STILL HAVE THE SHADOW WARS XD

Ok, here is your best defence for your forts. First, do the Fight Pit challenges in each area until you unlock your additional Warchief slot. You may need to do some recruiting to do it. Also if you have anything to decrease the amount of damage your followers take, equip it, that includes putting a green gem in your ring slot. Then make your highest level guys warchiefs. Then purchase the following upgrades. Metal Walls Iron Gates Hunter Host Cursed Siege Beast Hellfire Spiked Walls And Poison Mines. This will keep all of the enemies outside and taking lots of damage since I have not met an orc Immune to Poison, Curse, and Flames all at the same time. Also recrute the attackers when you can to make your army stronger for the next invasion. Also sell extra gear for the money, you'll need a lot of it and if you end up with extra, used it to buy some chests at the Headhunter to make you or your men stronger. If all goes well, you'll never lose another fort again. P.S. To make your army stronger, equip your highest level white gem to your ring slot when you're out recruiting. Doing so will make the guy's level increase upon recruitment equal to the level in the gem. And if by some means you do lose a fort, save your Overlord should be step one. Step two, make your army infiltrate the warchiefs until all are betrayal missions and then do said missions. Step three, make your now more powerful men infiltrate the fort until all spots are infiltrated. Step four, claim the fort with the initial attack will just be walking up and taking the points . Step fivem kill or recruit the overlord and the fort is your's again.

16:21 - "I've got a bipolar eye on top of a tower!" The funniest thing I've ever heard. LOL.

Is that dlc just off the horizon I see? I think it is!

Do not end these videos! I swear! They are easily one of the best videos on KZfaq I watch. Please do not end this.

Side note: The starting base gear you had since the beginning, has changed. Even the descriptions state that I they are fleeting remnants of a forgotten past bathed in darkness. No joke, the armour of Talion's old life, the cloak of his wife made, the broken sword of his son and even his own blade. All suddenly changed in a more depressing way, Talion as we knew is gone. All hail our new Nazgul Overload Talion.

9:33 favorite 18 seconds of content

Best fortress upgrades for Shadow Wars: Metal Walls Iron Gates Hellfire Spiked Walls Then use either poison/fiery siege beasts and mines, depending on captain weaknesses

You can now actually bring captains back from the dead. Very useful for captains you like and which die.

16:00 Why does no one comment on the fact that they merged into a TIE Fighter?

After spending 40 hours searching for necromancers, seeing him find one makes me inhumanly enraged

I’m sad all this is almost over, but at least 13:49 gave me my new favorite singing Brent moment

Sauron: "I serve no one!" Morgoth: "Did you say something, bitch?" Sauron: "No, Sir."

Bret please do the Blade of Galadriel Dlc I think you would love it!

14:14 10/10 Singing Tear

I recognized that Milfanito music at the end. Nice! Also I like the shadow wars to be honest? You’re not thoroughly pressured to do much of anything, you can just go around and experience the captains and such! It’s nice to be let loose.

Glancing at laptop stickers "AMD Radeon" oh.

If you play it more you can eventually revive your captains from the dead and play the dlcs

That singing at 14:00 was WONDERFUL!

I like how in the Whole World in his Hand song, Brett did about 7 key changes

Now if only bitcoin miners didn't make the price of their graphics card rise by a lot.

I’m confused, are you gonna continue on PC or is this the actual end,.... Please don’t make it end

Metal fortress walls, spiked walls, iron gate, and drake door fire. Do that, and your only fear of enemies breaking in are ologs and graugs.

My favorite part of doing this mission was that the first two captains that showed up killed each other. Blood Lover pops Enraged by Rival on Pain Seeker, Pain Seeker pops Bloodlust. Cue a short detour to kill mobs for Might. Turn around to see both on invisible pixels. Pain Seeker comes out of rage, gets hit, gets poisoned, does the punch grab and kills Blood Lover, then dies from the poison the moment the animation plays out, not even an animation, just falls over like he had an aneurysm.

NUUUUU DON'T END IT,it will bring Me to TEARS lol

Zog will rise agan better than ever

basically the shadow wars are you defending your fortresses and re capturing them if you lose it can be quite fun and you dont have to do it you can still fuck around with uruks outside of the fortress defenses

The ring has a mind of its own. It betrayed isildur and expanded to fall off

I LOVE THIS FUCKIN GAME, AND LOVE THIS GAMEPLAY OF YOU, its a shame its ending

Ples no end STICKY GLUEE

I just want to thank you Bret for this series and Shadow of Mordor. It really helped me in a bad spot. 3 years ago I got diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis and was really sick. I bought Shadow of Mordor at the time and was in hospital a lot so couldn’t play it, but yeah vids helped me so much. I still re-watch them to this day and though I’m having relapse now, Shadow of War vids has helped me laugh through it treatment. I really hope you continue this series with all the dlc and replay for all the shits and giggles. Thanks man.

My tips for Shadow Wars are quite simple. Fill up all the warchief slots with your best guys. Preferably with bodyguards. I'd say get the Iron Gates and Spiked walls upgrades so that it takes awhile for enemies to get in. But most importantly recruit the attacking captains as this will put the odds in your favor. Another REALLY important note. If you die you lose the fortress. So remember unless the situation is dire don't put yourself at too much risk. You are the King in a game of chess, every other piece is more expendable by comparison when it comes to holding the fort.

That line at the end where Sauron says "I serve no one," that makes no sense by the book logic. Because unless I'm mistaken, doesn't Sauron serve this world's version of Satan, or a chaos God? So yes you do serve someone Sauron.

Tear upgrade the new nazgul gear it is pretty good

I feel sorry for that Olog (Who kinda sounds like you when he laughs)

Brett has the quickest changes of fancy, go from: Take the ring do it! To Oh....we are taking the ring, TALION ARE YOU INSANE!

yo, brett or what ever your name is, if u beat all the pit missions in minas morgul you can rez captains from the dead

He changed the title and thumbnail... I guess this is either a weird April Fools prank, or just confirmation he's continuing.

4:03 Is this how Sauron feels throughout the game?

3:34 the most badass voice

noooooo horza

TearOFGrace Will you play Warhammer Vermintide 2 in the future

You would never guess that Steve Blum voices Sauron.

Eltarial: fight harder you demons Ukrom: really...if you say so

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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Nice. Now this is the long part where we have several chapters of the Gracewalker's adventurers with Orcs, here's hoping he finds a worthy nemesis during that time we can all meme about.

When I play nothing interesting happens but when this guy plays it's the most chaotic Version of the game

Never clicked faster

I got here early this time... Are we getting The Witcher next?

Everyone else: watches talion pick up palintir with bated breath Brett: he’s got the whole world in his hands he’s got the whole world in his hands

11:16 Talion and the boys taking back the capital

Jesus Christ enough with the “first” bullshit

R u my dad

Got a nice cheesy strat for you. When you attack a fortress, recruit all of the warchiefs, it makes the whole thing go alot quicker.

*''I am the Tower''* I CALLED IT!

only just noticed, when eltariel takes the ring, she puts it on her index finger, when it gets cut off her hand, it's on her ring finger

You poor, poor man. You've suffered so much, but it has only just begun.

each time he starts talking directly to an orc, i just immagine them talking to them directly in game.

Shelob- “you pitiful man” Bret- “I lay here dying” lol