One of the many features in Shadow of War that comes from Shadow of Mordor is Death Threat. Learn how Death Threat works now!
Monolith’s video game Middle-earth: Shadow of War offers an expanded list of opportunities and features to the player compared to its predecessor Shadow of Mordor. Issuing Death threats to orcs is one of them and this is a quick guide to how this feature works in the ne game!
Similar to Shadow of Mordor, to issue a Death Threat in Shadow of War, you need a Worm Orc to perform that action or Intel papers (Dominating Worms is much quicker than normal Grunts), that can be found in random places (similarly to Shadow of Mordor)
In Shadow of War Death Threat Issues create a new mission for the target and you have to complete an objective before you draw the orc out to fight him. The mission guarantees a reward that is minimum a rare quality
You cannot death threat (DT) an Overlord as he is still in the fortress at the time you are allowed to do this operation. You cannot issue a DT to a follower of yours either
Death Threat will make the targeted orc gain 5 levels and this can be done to all tiers of enemies, including Legendary. It’s a great way to create some challenge for yourself as well as make it easier to complete certain achievements and level up legendary gear.
Performing Death Threat doesn’t prevent you from recruiting the orc after you have beaten them – just pick Recruit instead of kill, it will not grant you the cool loot, but will allow you to earn a new follower that is now 5 levels higher than what he was earlier. Of course, for the Recruitment to work, your opponent must not have the Iron Will or Unbreakable traits.
If you skip a Death Threat mission (each Nemesis mission in the game has certain duration before it expires or resolves automatically), the orc may make fun of you and will eventually keep getting stronger with time passing.
You can later send another Death Threat that will rise the orc’s level with another 5. For example some legendary items can be upgraded if you perform a certain action or complete a specific objective, which may be to kill a certain orc of level X or higher.
If a captain survives a death threat, he will remember that and remind you if you meet again at a later point. This is a cool feature implemented into the Nemesis system to increase immesrion.
If you issue a Death Threat to an epic enemy, he wont become necessarily a Legend. Transferring an orc from Epic to Legendary depends on how deep history you have with him as well as on a number of other variables and scenarios
Captains with a Death Threat can still cheat death after being defeated during the mission
You cannot set a follower of yours to execute your Death Threat mission, but can place him as a bodyguard to help you (this is done via the Army screen for each region)
If you issue a Death Threat to an unknown captain, you wont reveal all about him, but just the “tier 1” knowledge, which involves level, rarity and strong sides, but not weaknesses.
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