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

This achievement is incredibly frustrating. The Graug will take more damage from the explosions while he is still stunned so if you wait to long the ghul explosion will do less. Also sometimes after you explode all your ghuls you can get more (that are in your control) to spawn.

Any location that's good to find both a graug and ghuls? I missed it during the mission.

Love hearing same Torvin dialogue 8 times in a row

If you miss it during the main mission there is a location near the south west portion of the map... a cave with a graug. The mounds for ghuls are nearby the cave.

Plus one......worked for me first try!!!

Took me 4 or 5 tries but I finally got it. I had to let the ghuls wear him down a little bit before I downed him, then dispatched them when he was under half health while he was still down.

God what a pain in the ass! Can't seem to even get the Grau and ghouls in the same location. No Ghul mounds show up in the southwest.

@ Falcon...try this....

1) Fast travel to the Forge Tower in Cab-Gwanath (NE corner of the map)

2) Look to your right, you should see a Graug, if not, fast travel again and one should spawn, or you can use the Graug bait under the bridge left/west of the tower

3) There are THREE Ghul mounds here in this area, West, East and South of the Forge Tower!!! Get your Ghuls branded and either use the Gruag bait or attack one that is out already....

Hope this helps!!

@Warboy, thank you SO much - this worked way better than the video in the walkthrough for free roam.

Glad I could help!!

Its the same method I discussed in my solution

Solution for The Collector In Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor - Game of the Year Edition

This is a good guide, I got mine to pop on this mission. I was having a hard time maintaining enough dominated ghuls or I the ghuls would kill the graug before I could dispatch them. I found that if the graug dies and the achievement didn't pop when it tells you to return to Torvin, instead of restarting the whole mission you can just run the opposite direction as Torvin. It will tell you that you are leaving the mission area. Keep going, when it says you failed, just hit retry. This will spawn you with a fresh graug and 20+ dominated ghuls to try again. It took me 3 tries, giving me more dominated ghuls each time I respawned, but it was shorter than redoing the whole mission.

I did this over 10 times, and no achievement. On my 11th retry, the achievement finally unlocked. kind of screwed acheivement.

Glitched for me, tried everything, still no achievement after 30+ tries. Last one I need to finish this game. :(

Thanks Warboy! Your words should be part of the solution!!

Want to add, if you fail to kill him with the ghuls, just run away. You will leave the mission area, and restart right after the Graug appears. Saved me some time after restarting the mission a couple of times.

hi thanks for your solution, personally when i failed i left the graug kill me. i got it after 2-3 attempts

I had problems getting it to pop, what I did was followed the guide. Let the Ghuls take the graug down 50% then dispatch, once dead hit guide then view all achievements, then select middle earth SoM now wait for it to pop.

Good guide, worked first try

seemingly impossible to get in free roam. if you miss this, you'll likely need to restart and replay the Lord of the Hunt- which will cost you a few hours. so, don't miss this one. thus, if you don't get the achievement at this exact point, run out of bounds and try try try again.

^ This method worked for me second try, no need to restart the DLC: https://youtu.be/_mj3MpwYXeM

I'll also add that the achievement did not pop right away. Frustrated, I fast traveled to the nearby forge tower and went to take a pee and heard it pop while I was in the bathroom.

ive done the story mode mission way, i did it in open world play.. ive done it multi times in multi ways an it will not pop.. Such a buzz kill, just another game thats a waste of time if you want the 100%.. No point doing anymore if this stupid little 10gs cheevo wont even work.

Thank you! This is definitely the ideal point to unlock this achievement.

The achievement is pretty glitchy / finicky and in every meaningful way ***MISSABLE***.

I missed this in the story mission. Eventually I managed to kill a Graug twice in freeroam with the Ghuls but no achievement. From hours of trying. Trying to redo that in freeroam is just not reasonable. The game is extremely specific about at which nanosecond you press down on the D pad when it comes to killing / not killing / an enemy killstealing the Graug.

This requires a HARD warning for any future players that the achievement is 99,99% missable. You may need to kill the Graug with the Ghuls 10+ times for the cheevo to pop and the only way to manage that is to focus on retrying it over and over during the Torvin story mission. And only then.

After 40-50 tries I managed to kill 2 Graugs via Ghuls in freeroam, every other attempt died in the crib because the game spawned maybe 4-8 Ghuls per nest, all of which die instantly before one can even try to dominate them. Followed by 20 orcs and 3 Caraghars to make things more chaotic and impossible. And those aforementioned two successes gave no achievement.

I had to eventually redo the DLC, reached the story mission in a couple of hours and when I killed the Graug for the tenth-ish time the achievement unlocked.

Hard missable, plain and simple. There's a good case to be made to just flag this as such. A proper clear warning would be useful at the top of the guide. This one is possible to get in freeroam in the same way that winning the lottery possible.

I.E. it isn't possible.

Fast travel to the Forge Tower in Cab-Gwanath (NE corner of the map). There is a Graug bait in the square structure opposite, destroy it. Damage the Graug until low health.

You need to have one or better two Ghoul Matrons in - otherwise the damage will not be enouth.

Finally got it with the Solution found here:

Glitched 'Locked' achievement problem solved.