Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor - Game of the Year Edition

Right at the top you should be pointing out this has to be done in Trials of War, Test of the Ring......don't forget the basics.

The achievement description says 'Test of the Ring'......don't you forget the basics.

I would make sure the branded uruks kill him. The first time I tried it, I killed him myself and received an epic rune. Second time, I let the uruks kill him and got the level 30 rune.

Excellent guide. I will add that for me I followed the steps InsidiousMrMoo laid out but got a bit over zealous with flash branding the regular orcs and Skak Raid Leader ended up as my war chief. I killed him immediately and still got the level 30 rune.

+1 worked perfectly my first try!

Perfect guide, worked for me on the first try.

Plus one!!!! Worked perfect!!!!!

The second guy I opened with the intel was the dude that had Hate of Morgai Flies. I went ahead and did this exact method with him, replacing riding the caragor with shooting a fly nest and it was just as easy, took about 8 minutes after starting the Test of the Ring.

My Uruks just stood there and admired the war chief as he murdered my Caragor and almost me as well so I had to kill him myself. Got the level 30 rune first try. Thanks!

Cracking guide. Cheers.

Good guide.

Cheers pal worked first time!

Perfect, thank you

Flawless!! Followed each step, and got it first try. Thanks!!!

Another thanks from me, worked first time

Worked first try. Thanks

Tried killing two birds with one stone by getting this one and the achievement for the 25 rune. Turns out it can't be done; you actually have to get a level 25 rune too. Ah well.

Thanks for the guide though. It worked and I now have this achievement.

perfect!

Perfect solution! Much simpler that the other ones floating around.

This is a great guide. Two things to note that I wasn't sure about. (1) You don't have to be on the caragor when Skak dies and (2) Skak doesn't have to be enraged when he dies. I was worried I was going to have to keep my caragor alive during the fight to keep him enraged, but the caragor died early on and his rage wore off and I still got the lvl 30 rune.

It's perfect.

Awesome guide.

Still works. Thanks.

Beautiful solution!

Worked 1st time. brilliant!

He constantly regenerates health. Your own orcs are fairly bad. Worse, he auto executes if you get him too low. Very, very slow way of doing this.

Worked 1st time

Regarding your own orca being bad. That’s simple. You take down 3/4 of his health yourself and then stun him with B so they can get easy hits on him.

Great solution

Got it first try
Extremely surprised!!
Awesome Solution!

Following all these steps, I accidentally killed Shak myself and he still dropped a level 30 rune.

Excellent guide. Worked perfectly.

This worked like a charm! I summoned my Orcs which included a branded captain, and then used the One Ring to take his health down until he submitted. Backed away until he stood back up, and then my captain ran him through from behind. Perfect 30 rune.

Hilariously easy with this guide, nice work!

It may be me but I don’t know that this method works anymore, I’ve tried several times and killing him seems impossible. His health drops to a certain point and he takes a knee, I’ve waited for a while and he simply stays there. If you approach him your only option is to dominate.

Perfect solution!

worked for me first try

So confused as I have no idea what test of the ring even is. No DLC option says test of the ring.

Yup, during the bright lord I don't even get to kill him so I just wasted an hour trying it there. Stupid fucking game

Hey finally figured out that test of the ring is on the main menu so the walkthrough absolutely sucks for this game. But finally followed these instructions and still didn't get the achievement.

Same thing happened to me I ended up branding him by mistake, but just killed him right after and got a lvl 30. Thanks a bunch. Guide still works +1 from me

Followed instructions to the letter, worked first attempt!

Worked for me. Thanks!

If anyone keeps getting epics like I did, it seems to be luck based. Did the exact same thing 6 times, finally got a non epic on the 6th go

Note that you need to find an intel icon on the map to gain intel on the Warchiefs--regular uruk won't work. Also, as others have pointed out, the level 30 rune isn't guaranteed (you can get an Epic rune)

I followed the guide and it worked. A level 30 rune spawned and I ran into an issue.

I waited for a minute for the achievement to pop but it didn't. So, I thought screw this and went to play something else for a bit and it popped while the other game was loading. So, when I eventually went back into Shadow of Mordor I checked to see what else I need to do and its saying that this achievement is still locked.

Then I did the exact same thing and the achievement didn't pop, so I restarted my Xbox and nothing popped. Do I need to delete the save data and try again?

This worked brilliantly! Thank you!