Here's a quick recap of my exploits last night.
I returned to Mordor for my second excursion with a clearer plan of what I wanted to do. I had defeated my nemesis, Golm the Shadow, as well as two others, Noslok the Looker, a crossbow loving jackass with a stupid helmet who has piggybacked himself up to Captain, and Baka the something or other, a combat master who also managed to raise his rep off of Golm's kills.
So I set out to clear the remaining three towers that I hadn't reached the night before, as well as seek out any artifacts and ithilium (or whatever it's called) I may come across. I then decided to attempt a sword challenge to better my sword's legend. This tasked me with eliminating trainees. I lure one out of the fortress and climb high to stealth kill him. After he was dead, I went into wraith world and noticed a red guy with a skull patrolling the trainees and coming to investigate the one I just killed. Curious, I pressed "R3" to tag him, and what do you know, it was Noslok the Looker, back from the dead, and just as ugly as ever.
I once again went to high ground, and waited for my moment. It came, and I lept down on top of Noslok, and he tossed me aside like I was nothing. He had picked up a new trick. Unfortunately for me, he also had a knack for calling reinforcements, and soon a new named Uruk, I'll call him "Baga the douche canoe," showed up to aid Noslok. "I can take these chumps," I arrogantly thought, despite the wave of trainees from the challenge, and new goons called by Noslok. I was handling them, utilizing the Triangle + Circle finisher to thin their ranks as best I could, and I was doing ok. Until Baka the something or other made a surprise resurrected appearance. I attempted to engage him in combat, but the fucker is now immune to direct attacks. No vaults, no attacks, no finishers. He is only vulnerable to stealth and explosions, and I am nowhere near a campfire.
I attempt to flee, but am hemmed in, and I fail the last chance because the camera was acting stupid. I die, and Noslok and Baka both rise even higher, and the newbie "Baga the douche canoe" becomes "Captain Baga the douche canoe."
I resurrect, and plot to take out Baga, as he's only Level 4, and doesn't have any important strengths after I get some intel on him. I track him down, and plan an infiltration route into his stronghold, and things are going well until he spots me, and calls for reinforcements. I decide fuck it and start to wail on him, until an unexpected guest appears: Golm the Shadow. He is now a Level 14 Elite Captain, and is out for blood. He is also pretty much invulnerable to everything, much like Baka. Speaking of Baka, it wasn't long until he showed up with reinforcements, including Noslok. So I now had 4 nemeses and a new Uruk all after me. I eventually managed to lose the pack, and take advantage of Noslok being separated from the group and killed him. Tiring of Golm's incessant meddling, I try to come up with a plan to finish him once and for all. I scanned the map, and saw that we were near a Graug den. I lured the group into the den. The Graug was in the back, hunched over. I waited for my nemeses to close in, then foolishly whacked the Graug with my sword (why I didn't use an arrow is beyond me).
Well, that got the Graug's attention. Unfortunately, I wasn't fast enough to clear its angry swipe, and it insta-killed me before my nemeses could engage. Needless to say, all my nemeses survived and leveled up, including Golm.
For the remainder of the night, I spent it systematically killing my nemeses, over and over again (they kept reappearing at inopportune times), in the hopes that I would finally end them. While I was freeing slaves, Golm and Baka showed up, both of them immune to everything but stealth finishers and explosions. Baka was sporting a nasty looking piece of glass or something in the side of his face. Golm was nice and burned from the last time I killed him. Fortunately for me, I was in a camp with plentiful campfires, so I spent the next few minutes running around, luring them close to the campfires or other exploding them. I once again killed them both. Sure, I needed the intel, but at this point, I want those fuckers dead.
I only died twice during that whole three hour play session, unlike the first night, where I died quite a bit.
Here's a pic of Golm:
Your time is coming motherfucker...
EDIT: Although his reason for hunting me down does crack me up.
EDIT 2: I also forgot to mention that Noslok the Looker used EXPLODING CROSSBOW BOLTS. Ugh. Such a pain in the ass.
I returned to Mordor for my second excursion with a clearer plan of what I wanted to do. I had defeated my nemesis, Golm the Shadow, as well as two others, Noslok the Looker, a crossbow loving jackass with a stupid helmet who has piggybacked himself up to Captain, and Baka the something or other, a combat master who also managed to raise his rep off of Golm's kills.
So I set out to clear the remaining three towers that I hadn't reached the night before, as well as seek out any artifacts and ithilium (or whatever it's called) I may come across. I then decided to attempt a sword challenge to better my sword's legend. This tasked me with eliminating trainees. I lure one out of the fortress and climb high to stealth kill him. After he was dead, I went into wraith world and noticed a red guy with a skull patrolling the trainees and coming to investigate the one I just killed. Curious, I pressed "R3" to tag him, and what do you know, it was Noslok the Looker, back from the dead, and just as ugly as ever.
I once again went to high ground, and waited for my moment. It came, and I lept down on top of Noslok, and he tossed me aside like I was nothing. He had picked up a new trick. Unfortunately for me, he also had a knack for calling reinforcements, and soon a new named Uruk, I'll call him "Baga the douche canoe," showed up to aid Noslok. "I can take these chumps," I arrogantly thought, despite the wave of trainees from the challenge, and new goons called by Noslok. I was handling them, utilizing the Triangle + Circle finisher to thin their ranks as best I could, and I was doing ok. Until Baka the something or other made a surprise resurrected appearance. I attempted to engage him in combat, but the fucker is now immune to direct attacks. No vaults, no attacks, no finishers. He is only vulnerable to stealth and explosions, and I am nowhere near a campfire.
I attempt to flee, but am hemmed in, and I fail the last chance because the camera was acting stupid. I die, and Noslok and Baka both rise even higher, and the newbie "Baga the douche canoe" becomes "Captain Baga the douche canoe."
I resurrect, and plot to take out Baga, as he's only Level 4, and doesn't have any important strengths after I get some intel on him. I track him down, and plan an infiltration route into his stronghold, and things are going well until he spots me, and calls for reinforcements. I decide fuck it and start to wail on him, until an unexpected guest appears: Golm the Shadow. He is now a Level 14 Elite Captain, and is out for blood. He is also pretty much invulnerable to everything, much like Baka. Speaking of Baka, it wasn't long until he showed up with reinforcements, including Noslok. So I now had 4 nemeses and a new Uruk all after me. I eventually managed to lose the pack, and take advantage of Noslok being separated from the group and killed him. Tiring of Golm's incessant meddling, I try to come up with a plan to finish him once and for all. I scanned the map, and saw that we were near a Graug den. I lured the group into the den. The Graug was in the back, hunched over. I waited for my nemeses to close in, then foolishly whacked the Graug with my sword (why I didn't use an arrow is beyond me).
Well, that got the Graug's attention. Unfortunately, I wasn't fast enough to clear its angry swipe, and it insta-killed me before my nemeses could engage. Needless to say, all my nemeses survived and leveled up, including Golm.
For the remainder of the night, I spent it systematically killing my nemeses, over and over again (they kept reappearing at inopportune times), in the hopes that I would finally end them. While I was freeing slaves, Golm and Baka showed up, both of them immune to everything but stealth finishers and explosions. Baka was sporting a nasty looking piece of glass or something in the side of his face. Golm was nice and burned from the last time I killed him. Fortunately for me, I was in a camp with plentiful campfires, so I spent the next few minutes running around, luring them close to the campfires or other exploding them. I once again killed them both. Sure, I needed the intel, but at this point, I want those fuckers dead.
I only died twice during that whole three hour play session, unlike the first night, where I died quite a bit.
Here's a pic of Golm:
Your time is coming motherfucker...
EDIT: Although his reason for hunting me down does crack me up.
EDIT 2: I also forgot to mention that Noslok the Looker used EXPLODING CROSSBOW BOLTS. Ugh. Such a pain in the ass.
