Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

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O Mother, Where Art Thou?

O Mother, Where Art Thou?

Have 20 Branded Ghûls at one time.

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How to unlock the O Mother, Where Art Thou? achievement in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor - Definitive Guide

This achievement is pretty much story-related and can’t really be missed. In the mission before taking on the final Warchief (Hypocritical Oath), you’re tasked with branding 45 Ghuls. At the end of the mission you get swarmed by Ghuls and should easily have 20 branded at once.
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16 Nov 2020 20:43

To earn the trophy that's called "O Mother, Where Art Thou?", you will need to have at least 20 Ghuls branded at one time.

You can easily do this on the mission called "Hypocritical Oath". Torvin will ask you to brand Ghuls to your side, so just begin the mission and draw them out through the Ghul Baits that you see in the mission. Once they appear, get a kill streak going and once the 5X hit streak is going and flashing in red, that's when you're able to brand them. Use Wraith Burn by pressing cn_T and cn_S at the same time and Ghuls should be your allies, as long as you are near them. The great thing about this trophy is that there's a counter-meter showing for how many Ghuls you have at one time, so you get a good idea of how many you have thus far.

You should have at least five-ten of them already at the start, so just continue on through the mission and once more Ghuls appear, quickly kill some more enemies until another hit streak commences, then brand a lot of them that's nearby you until you reach at least twenty or more ghuls. When you finally get up to twenty or more, the trophy should unlock quickly.

Here's a short, but quick video on how to get the trophy during this mission. All credit goes to richard919 for the video.

Happy hunting and good luck!

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16 Feb 2015 10:55

You will be unable to perform this ability until you start the mission Hypocritical Oath. At that point you will be able to use + (with a red Hit Streak) to perform an area effect branding of all Ghûls close to you.

Thankfully the trophy does not require that you brand all 20 Ghûls in a single Wraith Flash (+). You can use multiple Wraith Flashes to reach the required count of 20 actively branded Ghûls at the same time. The trophy will pop immediately as soon as your brand counter on the bottom left of the screen reaches 20+.

While this trophy can be earned in free roam, see Ghûls Gone Wild for the first, easiest, and best location to achieve this trophy.
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This achievement will unlock naturally during the mission entitled “Hypocritical Oath” and cannot be missed.

It’s worth noting however that in order to brand Ghuls, you must first bait their mounds. Doing this will lure them out into the field of Nurn where you can then begin to attack them, building your combo until you’re able to pull off a Wairth Burn (+) attack. This ability will brand all the Ghuls in the area, allowing them to fight alongside Talion just like branded Uruks.

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when completing the story quest (to access the last leader), you will be taught how to subjugate the ghouls. In the task you need to subdue 45 pieces in total. on the last bait there will be much more of them around you. Therefore, it is better to try out the new ability on the 3rd bait.
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27 Apr 2016 09:24

Easy to do in the story mission, which appears after killing 4 leaders. According to the plot of the mission, you need to brand the ghouls. After we have branded the ghouls on the first mound, we kill them and run to the next mound along the way, aggro the crowd of ghouls. Having reached the second mound, we lure new ghouls and brand them all at once - the trophy is yours. If you don't succeed the first time, you can replay the task.
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12 May 2017 08:42