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

I reccomend doing this towards the end of the game so that you have the majority of abilities available to you, for this method you will need:

Fire Arrow (Wraith Ability)
Double Charge (Ranger Ability)

First find a Berserker, they have two weapons as oppose to one so should easily be distinguished.

Next, get your combo in the red so that you can fire a flaming arrow.

Make sure the Berserker is right next to you when you shoot otherwise you won't be fast enough.

As soon as you shoot the Berserker, press + at the same time to execute him. This must be done very quickly otherwise it will not register as a kill, so just spam the execution.

This is the easiest and quickest way to get this achievement without having to rely on luck: make sure you have the "Storm of Urfael" power, either by gaining the ability or by having the Epic Rune.

First, power up "Storm of Urfael" by executing Uruks with the + execute power - you'll see it's ready when the crescent next to the Sword of Urfael icon is full. Then locate a berserker near a fire: in wraith mode they have two axes on their back. Headshot any other Uruks around the berserker with arrows. Once the non-berserkers are dead, first trigger "Storm of Urfael" (If you try to trigger "Storm of Urfael" after throwing the berserker through a fire, it takes more time and makes it harder) then grab the berserker and throw him through the fire and execute him. Done. With this method, nothing is left to chance.

This is a very short vid I put together that shows how easy it is:

This is a bit tricky unless you follow some simple steps.

First you need to find a Berserker who is near a fire, they're easy to spot in wraith mode as they are the big blue guys with two red swords on their back. Once you've found a Berserker and his buddies near a fire (found spread at random all over the map) kill everyone but the Berserker (making sure you don't touch the Berserker at all) then beat on him until you have enough charge for an execution. Now grab him while standing near the fire and release him - this should automatically throw him at the fire. As soon as he catches fire perform the execution + and it should pop.

Doing this any other way seemed to leave too much to chance, either he'd die when I was using him to charge up, or I'd get hit by a flying weapon and loose my charge.

hi, i found a other way to obtain it.

to do this achievement we go on this mode : Play -> Trials of War -> Test of the Ring.

( when i did this achievement yesterday, i have almost finish the main campaign , the last mission than i did it was "The Power of the Wraith" , and concerning the campaign of this mode i continued the main mission until i unlocked the 4 missions for the achievement " battle forged " and i did this 4 missions, i don't know if you can obtain it before )

when you start this mode, you are in a tower ( if you restart 50 new game at this mode, you start in the same tower), open your map with , you will see a bridge at left of the tower. to the right of the bridge you have a fire we will use this fire for the achievement.

( don't worry the explanation will be a little long but it's not hard )

Step 1 : you need to have your ring at 100% to use it ( the ring is a capacity, when your ring it's at 100% you can use it with + the time will be very slow and you can use the executions until the power of the ring finish)

it's possible than you have already your ring at 100% at the begin.

if you don't have the ring at 100% ,attack the enemies who are around the fire when your sword is blue use + ( you can use 2 times this skill when your sword is blue) when your enemies are with you use to kill them. continue like that with the enemies who are at proximity of you.

When you have your ring at 100% we go at the Step 2.

Step 2 : come back in front of the fire. if the enemies are at proximity of fire kill them. the enemies reappear quickly. now you use to do appear the uruks who are with you, you have 5 uruks automaticly. look if you have a berserker among the 5 uruks if you don't have a berserker use to kill them and when you can use ( you will have automaticly 5 uruks so you don't need to branded other uruks when you killed the precedent group ) when you have a berserker, take your bow and you do a headshot to the other 4 uruks.

now you have only with you your berserker.

press and read the next step until the end.

Step 3 : Check than 0 enemies are respawn around of you otherwise kill them. now you take your berserker with , and put your back in front of the fire , throw the berserker on the fire, when the berserker is on fire immediately press + then execute the berserker with + .

The achievement is unlock

For some reason it didn't work for me with the fire arrow. I think it's because the flames subside pretty quickly. Igniting a campfire gave me enough time to get the kill. I imagine Urafel's ability could make it easy as well.

Gambit1540 pointed this out for the original game - if the cheevo doesn't unlock despite meeting the requirements remove ALL Epic runes from your weapons.


I've also just realised that no one attempted this with the Ring-DLC yet. Since the Ring gives both infinite fire-arrows and executions it might be worth a shot. Especially since the Lv25-rune-bs can also be skipped via this DLC: