Fortresses. Ah. These are giant outposts that you storm and take on in the game. But these are really hard to actually capture- your army needs to scale the walls, claim each victory point while fighting off the orcs that try to intercept you, make your way to the Overlord’s room, and defeat them while they have a swarm of backup orcs trying to intercept you, before you can take one for yourself.

You could realistically just try doing this all by yourself- which would be freakishly difficult and unrewarding. Don’t do that. It’s almost impossible. Instead, let’s talk about the smart way to do things.

• Fortresses are gigantic castles and outposts. Each Fortress has a defense level- if this level is higher than your assault level, don’t bother taking it on yet and come back when you are better prepared. If it is equal to or lower than (recommended) your assault level, read on.
• Take out the Warchiefs. These Warhiefs are key Orc military members who stand on the ramparts, and they are extremely strong. Taking them out will make your job infinitely easier. To do this, you need to recruit Captains to your army and have them infiltrate a Warchief’s squad. In the heat of battle, they will betray the Warchief and kill him. There, your job is so much easier now.
• Don’t be afraid of losing Captains. Because you will- in the fighting or via betrayal, you will lose members of your army, that is just how things are. Accept it and move on.
• Don’t fight more than you have to. Once you have claimed a victory point, don’t stay there to fight off orcs- run to the next one. Remember, your aim is to capture all of them- you’ll be doing a lot of fighting anyway, so don’t waste time adding to it.
• Beat the Warlord. Now this will be difficult. The Warlord is a hard boss battle, and no matter what you do, this battle will test you. Be patient, don’t get too greedy, and fight this carefully- because once you defeat the Warlord, this fortress is yours.

Okay, now you have a Fortress. So what do you do next?

• Now you have to defend the fortress. When you claim a fortress, you assign captains as Warchiefs and Warlords, and they will defend it for you. This is great, right? Not right. See, the problem is, these guys don’t level up with you- so chances are that at some point in the future, you are attacked, and you’re straddled with underpowered orcs, unable to take the threat on. This is where keeping your defenses shored up comes in.
• Get siege upgrades for your fortresses. These require you to spend Miriam, but doing so will let you have more Warchiefs on the ramparts- always helpful.
• Replace your army regularly. You can either spend Miriam to buy new followers, spend real money to buy new followers, or recruit new followers and rotate them into the fortress.
• Utilize the Pit Fight Missions. This is important, because it helps level your Orcs up. It also gets you gear and Miriam. Remember, that the Orcs have a level cap equal to yours- and also that this process can and will take a lot of time.
• Keep swapping your Warchiefs and Warlords out. Either with new ones, or by demoting them so that they can be trained via pit missions to get more powerful (before you promote them back again).

Money. Experience. Skills. You know the drill. The grind in most modern games, derived from RPGs, of trying to stay on top of multiple currencies and proficiency meters, to unlock more powers and abilities for yourself slowly.

In this guide, we walk you through the skills, and methods to get money and XP via legitimate means first. Then, we also share a cheat you can use to get unlimited money in the PC version of the game.

FARMING MONEY:

• Complete quests. This is the easiest, and most obvious, way to earn money.
• Beat Treasure Orcs. These are the Orcs with the orange and white dots over them.
• Complete Shadows of the Past missions.
• Destroy old and useless gear. 
• Pit fights– these earn you money and gear for each fight, and you don’t lose anything from it. The only problem is you do lose a lot of time to this…

Farming Gold

Gold is the premium currency you use to buy lootcrates. You can either buy it, or get it in game. To get it in game, you:

• Fend off a Fortress Invasion online. Basically, this is invisible and asynchronous. You need to have your fortress well defended to be able to do this.
• Complete a Daily Challenge with a Gold Payout.

FARMING XP

• Complete main quests
• Dominate captains
• Complete Vendetta Missions
• Complete Nemesis Missions
• Take over Outposts

UPGRADES

There are so many upgrades for Tallon in this game- you unlock them using Skill Points. Each upgrade enhances a passive skill or gives you an active one to use- below, the video demonstrates these for you.

PC CHEATS FOR UNLIMITED MONEY/SILVER CHESTS:

Please be advised that the following methods are to be used at the sole discretion of the system owner. GamingBolt or its staff members take no responsibility for problems that may arise or issues that may occur from trying the below. We are merely reporting on this.

This report from PC Gamer shows how to get unlimited Silver (not Gold) in the game.

Much like they did with Arkham Knight, Warner Bros. have made the decision to lock the true ending of Shadow of War behind a lot of end game activities. Unlike with Arkham Knight, the end game activities here revolve all around the same mode, and depending on how you feel about metagames, are actually fun.

That said, getting the True Ending (which is basically completing Act 4) unlocked will require a significant amount of time- we are talking of at least a 5-6 hour investment. You can try and expedite the process by using the in game microtransactions- but it is advisable that you just spend the couple of extra hours and try to get this done for free.

In short, here are the steps:

• You need to complete Siege Quest. This entails defending all the Fortresses, and reaching Stage 10 (yes, there are 10 stages of defense). Doing so unlocks the True Ending.
• It is recommended you invest in defensive upgrades, because later stages see the challenge upped, and the enemies become more aggressive. You will automatically reach level 60 during Act 4.
• Target the Assault Leader- get him out and you defend against the Siege.

Unlike Shadow of Mordor, Shadow of War makes inventory management a big deal. There are reasons for this- your gear determines various stats, its rarity determines the kinds of upgrades it can and will get, the gems you use can be used to stack more perks to it, and finally, Legendary Sets can bestow upon you all sorts of powers.

It’s RPG-esque in terms of the inventory management involved here- or you can think of this as being similar to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, which also placed an emphasis on your inventory. Nevertheless, the inventory here works differently from most other games, so let us walk you through it.

• There are five separate item types in your inventory- a sword, a dagger, a bow, armor, and a cloak. These increase your melee, stealth, ranged attack, defense, and stealth respectively. You can only have one of each equipped at a time.
• There are four ranks of gear- common (white), rare (yellow), epic (orange), and legendary (purple).
• You get gear for completing side quests, and as loot drops when you kill orcs. You can also just buy it from the Market using in game money. Gear is not hard to find, don’t stress over it.
• Each gear item has an upgrade challenge associated with it- the challenge increases that gear’s stat. How much the stat is increased by, and how hard the challenge is, is determined by the gear’s rarity level (the rarer it is, the harder it is to upgrade it, but the more it will be enhanced upon being upgraded). You can check the upgrade challenge for an item in the inventory- and remember, only your equipped items’ upgrade challenges are active for you at any moment. This means you can only be upgrading one sword, dagger, bow, armor, and cloak at a time.
• You can add Gems to each type of gear (but not individual gear pieces) for bonuses. Potency gems add damage, vitality gems add health, wealth gems add, well, wealth.
• There are five ranks of Gems:
  • Basic
  • Carved
  • Polished
  • Refined
  • Perfect
• Each rank is more powerful than the last, and you can combine three of any gem rank gems to get one of the next rank. So, for instance, three Carved gems will give you one Polished one.

LEGENDARY GEAR

This deserves its own section, so here we are. Legendary Gear is late game stuff- each Legendary Gear you pick up belongs to a set. Completing a set leads to some severe bonuses. You can track how many pieces of each set you have and what bonuses you have available from the rightmost icon in your inventory.

The sets in the game, as well as instructions to unlock their individual pieces, follow below:

Feral Legendary Set

• Feral Sword
  Kill a Legendary Feral Slayer or Destroyer.
• Feral Dagger
  Kill a Legendary Feral Assassin or Berserker.
• Feral Bow
  Kill a Legendary Feral Marksman or Tracker.
• Feral Armor
  Kill a Legendary Feral Tank.
• Feral Cloak
  Kill a Legendary Feral Beastmaster.
• Feral Ringcraft
  Kill a Legendary Feral Commander or Trickster.

Marauder Legendary Set

• Marauder Sword
  Kill a Legendary Marauder Slayer or Berserker.
• Marauder Dagger
  Kill a Legendary Marauder Assassin or Tracker.
• Marauder Bow
  Kill a Legendary Marauder Marksman.
• Marauder Armor
  Kill a Legendary Marauder Tank or Destroyer.
• Marauder Cloak
  Kill a Legendary Marauder Beastmaster or Trickster.
• Marauder Ringcraft
  Kill a Legendary Marauder Commander.

Machine Legendary Set

• Machine Sword
  Kill a Legendary Machine Slayer or Berserker.
• Machine Dagger
  Kill a Legendary Machine Assassin or Tracker.
• Machine Bow
  Kill a Legendary Machine Marksman .
• Machine Armor
  Kill a Legendary Machine Tank.
• Machine Cloak
  Kill a Legendary Machine Beastmaster or Trickster.
• Machine Ringcraft
  Kill a Legendary Machine Commander.

Terror Legendary Set

• Terror Sword
  Kill a Legendary Terror Slayer or Destroyer.
• Terror Dagger
  Kill a Legendary Terror Assassin .
• Terror Bow
  Kill a Legendary Terror Marksman or Tracker.
• Terror Armor
  Kill a Legendary Terror Tank.
• Terror Cloak
  Kill a Legendary Terror Beastmaster or Berserker.
• Terror Ringcraft
  Kill a Legendary Terror Commander or Trickster.

Mystic Legendary Set

• Mystic Sword
  Unlocked by killing a Legendary Mystic Slayer .
• Mystic Dagger
  Unlocked by killing a Legendary Mystic Assassin or Berserker.
• Mystic Bow
  Unlocked by killing a Legendary Mystic Marksman or Tracker.
• Mystic Armor
  Unlocked by killing a Legendary Mystic Tank or Destroyer.
• Mystic Cloak
  Unlocked by killing a Legendary Mystic Beastmaster.
• Mystic Ringcraft
  Unlocked by killing a Legendary Mystic Commander or Trickster.

Warmonger Legendary Set

• Warmonger Sword
  Kill a Legendary Warmonger Slayer.
• Warmonger Dagger
  Kill a Legendary Warmonger Assassin or Tracker.
• Warmonger Bow
  Kill a Legendary Warmonger Marksman.
• Warmonger Armor
  Kill a Legendary Warmonger Tank or Destroyer.
• Warmonger Cloak
  Kill a Legendary Warmonger Beastmaster or Berserker.
• Warmonger Ringcraft
  Kill a Legendary Warmonger Commander or Trickster.

Bright Lord Legendary Set

• Bright Lord Sword
  Open the Ithildin Door in Gorgoroth.
• Bright Lord Dagger
  Open the Ithildin Door in Seregost.
• Bright Lord Bow
  Open the Ithildin Door in Nurnen.
• Bright Lord Armor
  Open the Ithildin Door in Minas Ithil.
• Bright Lord Cloak
  Open the Ithildin Door in Cirith Ungol.
• Bright Lord Ringcraft
  Complete all Shadows of the Past missions with at least a Bronze rating

Middle-earth: Shadow of War Vendetta Legendary Set

• Vendetta Sword
  Complete and finished all objectives of first Vendetta mission.
• Vendetta Dagger
  Use a stealth attack against an online Vendetta Target.
• Vendetta Bow
  Headshot an online vendetta target.
• Vendetta Armor
  Kill an online vendetta target with your HP over 80%
• Vendetta Cloak
  Use a mounted attack against an online vendetta target.
• Vendetta Ringcraft
  Kill a Legendary Vendetta Commander or Trickster.

Dark Legendary Set

• Dark Sword
  Kill a Legendary Dark Slayer or Dark Destroyer.
• Dark Dagger
  Kill a Legendary Dark Assasin
• Dark Bow
  Kill a Legendary Dark Marksman or Tracker.
• Dark Armor
  Kill a legendary Dark Tank.
• Dark Cloak
  Kill a Legendary Dark Berserker or Beastmaster.

The Nemesis system, which allowed for enemy AI to be reactive, and grow in response to the player, in Shadow of Mordor was in large part responsible for the high level of acclaim that that game enjoyed. And the system is back in Shadow of War, and it is bigger and more dynamic and powerful than before, leading to more opportunities for emergent gameplay.

The Nemesis system can lead to you having a surprising amount of agency in terms of how you play and approach the game. Here are some general tips and suggestions to keep in mind as you play the game and leverage it to your advantage:

• Orc tribes and groups have a hierarchy: Worms And General Soldiers are the lowest in the hierarchy followed by Captains, Warchiefs and finally Overlord.
• Your aim is to take down the Overlord in each region to claim its fortress.
• But you can’t just attack the Overlord straight- that’s suicide. What you need is more information about him, and understand his weaknesses. This is where nemesis and domination will come into play.
• Isolate and dominate Worms. Basically, get a single grunt alone and by himself- either by separating him from his pack, or by killing his companions (not recommended, since he will try to flee), or by using stealth. But don’t kill him. Instead, use the Dominate option. You can use this option to get intel about the fortress you are attacking, or the Overlord defending it, or intel about the Warchiefs  and Captains. Gather as much intel here as you can- but remember that Worms by themselves might not know much. You need to-
• Dominate Captains. Captains will pose a real challenge for you, and you can’t dominate them until you have reached a certain point in the story. Once you have, however, you want to drop their health to a certain point until you get the option to ‘break’ them, or use their weakness (information you should have gotten from Worms) against them to instantly make them surrender. Once they are broken, you can fight them, shame them, or recruit them. Remember that each option has good or bad repercussions. If you dominate a Captain tasked with protecting a Warlord and recruit him, that orc will eventually betray the Warlord, making for an easier opening for you.
• Death threats are useful. While they prepare an orc against your attack (and you should only use them if you are intending to attack them, since a death threat will aggro them), they also lead to better loot.
• Orcs that defeat you level up. Keep that in mind.
• Recruited Orcs can betray you. Orcs have no sense of lingering loyalty- so remember, just because you recruited an Orc doesn’t mean their story is over.
• You can give commands to your captains and get an enemy Orc killed. Furthermore, you can use this as an opportunity to recruit more powerful orcs. For example, if your captain’s level is 23 and the enemy orc is at level 28, you can command your captain to take the enemy out. However, when this battle is going on, intervene and help your captain in defeating it. However, don’t kill the orc enemy. Instead, dominate and take the enemy orc under your command.
• Furthermore, each Warchief will have a number of bodyguards. Take them out one by one and once you dominate all of them, you can then set your sights on the Warchief. However, the tide is in your favor now as the bodyguards will betray the Warchief and take it down. Once a Warchief has been defeated you can command one of your captains to be a spy. However, your captain needs to prove itself by fighting a fellow orc in the arena. Once defeated, your Captain will now be a Warchief thereby making Siege battles far more easier.

Shadow of Mordor was known for its exciting fights, and Shadow of War is no different in that regard. While it’s never winning any best bosses awards against some of the best games out there, there are some thrilling bosses for you to encounter and take on in Shadow of War nonetheless.

And if you need any help with these bosses- which include some of the most iconic characters from the Lord of the Rings series as well- then you have come to the right place. In this guide, we walk you through the various bosses in the game and how to defeat them. In the process, we obviously end up spoiling the game, too- so if you watch this guide, make sure you either don’t care about being spoiled, or that you don’t jump ahead of where you are.

• 0:00 – Arena Champions
• 12:08 – Nazguls
• 20:23 – Suladan
• 28:21 – Zog the Eternal and Balrog part 1
• 32:16 – Balrog “Tar Goroth” part 2
• 45:25 – Zog the Eternal part 2
• 48:07 – Zog the Eternal part 3
• 52:37 – Helm Hammerhand
• 57:40 – Helm Hammerhand part 2
• 1:03:41 – Bruz the Chopper
• 1:08:00 – Zog the Eternal part 4
• 1:15:18 – Isildur
• 1:20:31 – Battle to reach the Witch King
• 1:28:37 – Isildur part 2
• 1:41:27 – The Witch King
• 1:47:37 – Sauron
• 1:52:37 – Ending
• 1:54:15 – True Ending