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Easy fight pit wins

If your Orc is about to lose at a fight pit, simply quit the game and retry again until he wins.

Easy Ways to Farm Legendaries

If you just want as many Legendaries as fast as possible there isn't much to optimize.

1. Kill every Captain on Sight. (Rarity does not improve).
2. Always Skip Time when you Fast Travel. (For fresh Captains).
3. Farm Nemesis Missions, preferable these with multiple participants.

If you want to farm a specific Legendary it gets a bit more complicated.

1. Search for Banners etc. of the Clan you want, the best indicator is a Statue.
2. Search for the Soldier type that can drop your legendary.
3. Let him kill you.

Make sure there is always a free Slot so the new Captain does not have to duel his way on the map which does not always succeed.

Easy XP in Act 4

The best and quickest way to gain lots of XP in Act 4 is by losing your keeps instead of defending them. You earn a lot more experience by retaking a fort than you will successfully defending it. You get approximately 50k XP for successfully defending a fort, while you get approximately 160k XP for failing to defend a fort and then retaking it. For more XP, add White Gems to your armor for a small XP buff. Upgrade them for even more XP. When losing a fort, you do not lose Warchiefs or Overlords. Overlords are captured, so if you want to keep them, you will have to complete a rescue mission later. You can send out Orcs to save him. To make things easier, replace your good Overlords with useless ones before losing. There is (currently) a bug that makes the rescue mission sometimes never appear. To avoid potentially losing your best Uruks, leave some spaces open and swap terrible Overlords into your fort. For every fort defense quest, simply lose the fort and retake it for around three times the regular amount of XP you would earn.

Getting the Silenced Handgun

Complete the "Out In The Open" and "Getting Back Online" side missions in Chapter seven to unlock the Silenced Handgun. Both side missions are for a man named Sykes. You find him fending off zombies in a parking lot, around the center of the map. You can enter the parking lot through the gate in the south. Kill all the zombiesand rescue Sykes. Then, talk to him in his safe house to complete the "Out In The Open" side mission. He will then give you the "Getting Back Online" side mission, which requires you to backtrack a little bit and use the computer in the northern safehouse. You then get teleported back to The Marrow where you must access a terminal. Run back to Sykes and he will unlock a big orange box in his safe house, which contains the Silenced Handgun.

Remember to summon

It is best to remember that you can summon various Orcs that have pledged their alliance to help during your fight. If a battle is getting out of hand then request help from your followers.

Various Gameplay Hints

Hint 1
If you find yourself continuously overwhelmed while fighting captains/warchiefs/overlords, invest in the shadow pull upgrade for Shadow strike. As long as they're not arrow proof, you can pull them to you from a distance. Make sure you are in a hard place to get to so that you can 1v1 the captain without the hassle of other orcs interrupting.

Hint 2
The counter ability that insta-kills orcs is really strong, Invest in that skill when you can to easily clear orcs of the area.

Hint 3
Use your surroundings. It will make the difference between life and death, especially later when the nastier kinds of enemies start showing up. Morgal fly hives, Caragors and their cages and bait, exploding and poisonable grog barrels, Elfshot caches and the like will show up with your Wraithsight (default V). Use them to your advantage.

Hint 4
Remember that enemies can still be stealth killed for a couple seconds after spotting you. The general rule of thumb is that you have until they draw their weapon to kill them.

Hint 5
When a Captain's icon over his head turns from red to green, you can Grab and Drain or Shank him with no resistance. This can be very easily accomplished when they're afraid of something like burning or Caragors; when Terrified, they're instantly grabbable.

Hint 6
Always use Wraithsight right before you cause a ruckus. You want to make sure there is an acceptable (usually below 2) number of captains in the area, or else you may be overwhelmed.

Hint 7
Do not underestimate the importance of Elfshot. Longbow shots pierce, and hammer throws have splash damage. In addition, a large number of Captains and Warchiefs have traits that need Elfshot to exploit; usually causing them to be Dazed if you shoot them in the head or the foot. Caches are more important in War since you can't have the talents that Dominate and restore Elfshot on Drain at the same time.

Hint 8
USE THOSE WEAKNESSES. The weaknesses of the captains are an essential part of the game. Some Captains will be all but unkillable without exploiting their weaknesses.

Hint 9
Never start a fair fight. You're a Ranger, not a Spartan. Scout the area before you fight. See where the orcs are. See where environmental features are that you can use. Find a good fallback point. Elfshot caches, Caragor bait, etc. are. The game rewards diversifying your attack strategies, so get used to using everything at your advantage. Unless something doesn't go according to plan, you should be able to kill every Orc and Uruk in a given situation without engaging more than 2 or 3 at a time.

Hint 10
Your orcs only level as high as your current level. If you are trying to level them and their not changing its because of your level.

Hint 11
Sending an uruk to garrison removes blood brother trait. Useful if you like your follower, but want to kill his bb. And killing a blood brother makes a follower betray you.

Hint 12
Prioritize getting Combat Drain first. You do not regen health and the magical health herbs from Shadow of Mordor are gone. You only regain health by draining an enemy orc and this is exceptionally hard to do in the middle of the horde. Combat drain murders an orc (or dominates it) and gives you back health. It really is better than execution in almost every circumstance.

Hint 13
You have to unlock each skill in order along each row for Talion. So if you want to ride Graugs, you first have to learn to ride Caragors.

Hint 14
Ologs are your best friend, even if they aren't on your side. One charged arrow to the head, or one stun prompt and you can "mount" the beast and now you have a hitstreak building, might filling, grunt destroying machine.

Hint 15
The Wraith stun is still too good. Literally any captain that can be vaulted can be followed up with a stun. Use it to take out those pesky defender captains.

Various Steam Achievements

Complete the indicated task to unlock the achievement.

Achievement	How to unlock
Avenged	Complete a Vendetta Mission.
Bad Boss	Strike a Follower until he's had enough.
Banish the Darkness	Complete all Eltariel quests.
Banished	Defeat Suladân.
Best Defense	Equip 3 Siege Upgrades on an Assault Team.
Better Luck Next Time	Meet an Enemy or a Follower who has cheated death.
Blood on Blood	Make a Captain kill his bloodbrother.
Bound by Blood	Complete an Online Vendetta.
Brought to Heel	Defeat Helm Hammerhand.
Death is not the End	Resurrect a Follower Captain.
Dismantled	Disable an Outpost.
Everything is Permitted	Shame an Assassin until he becomes deranged.
Fall and Rise	Complete all Brűz quests.
Feed the Beasts	Attract every kind of beast using bait.
Finished Tales	Recover all Gondorian artifacts.
First Steps	Conquer the Fortress of Núrnen.
Fit for War	Complete a challenge to upgrade a piece of gear.
Follower Perks	Use a Training Order to give a Follower a gang.
For Gondor	Complete all Gondor quests.
Forged by War	Unlock all player skills.
Forger	Forge a higher-quality Gem by combining three Gems of the same quality.
Headhunter	Recruit a Follower of every Advanced Class.
Hostile Takeover	Defeat a Warchief.
I Like to Watch	Watch a Follower murder another Captain without helping him.
If You Can't Beat Them	Dominate an Orc after he's killed you three or more times.
It Came From Within	Start a Conquest with all Warchiefs as spies.
Life of the Party	Send a Destroyer on a Vendetta Mission.
Lord of Horror	Defeat the Balrog.
Master Forger	Forge a top tier Gem.
Nemesis	Encounter the same Orc 3 times in nemesis missions without killing him.
No Orc Left Behind	Rescue a Follower who's been captured.
No Orc Lives Forever	Win all Fight Pit missions.
Overkill	Send a Follower to kill another Follower in a pit fight.
Peace in Death	Complete the Shadow Wars.
Power Couple	Send a Follower to support another Follower in a Nemesis Mission.
Promise Keeper	Issue a Death Threat, and then successfully kill the target.
Purge	Purify all the Haedir.
Rough Rider	Ride every type of beast and rare beast.
Rule of Three	Unlock 3 Gem slots.
Second Age Warrior	Complete all Shadow of the Past missions in one region.
Speak Friend and Enter	Open one of the Ithildin Doors.
Stalemate is Victory	Defeat the Witch-king and reclaim Minas Morgul.
Such Great Heights	Reach the rank of Captain in Online Conquest.
The Operative	Turn all of a Warchief's bodyguards (minimum 2) into spies, then confront him.
The Stuff of Legend	Equip a full Legendary Gear set.
The Web Revealed	Uncover the final Shelob memory and reveal the Web of Fate.
Trolling	Kill a Captain while riding an Olog.
Undeath Defeats Undeath	Complete all Carnán quests.
Vandal	Destroy a Monument.
Vertical Mobility	Help a grunt become an Overlord.
What Once Was Lost	Complete Act I.
Wild Things	Kill a drake while riding a graug.