Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

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The Silver Fist

The Silver Fist

Brand 20 Uruks in 60 seconds.

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How to unlock the The Silver Fist achievement in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor - Definitive Guide

A great place to try for this is during the main story mission Press the Advantage. It's found at the bottom right of the map in Southern Udun Pass and is available after you beat the campaign's starting mission. In Press the Advantage you'll be surrounded by uruks and will need to brand 15 of them. Afterwords you'll need to last for two minutes while being attacked by a constant stream of uruk reinforcements while always having at least 10 branded ururks.

You're going to be using Wraith Flash to mass dominate (cn_A + cn_X when the combo meter is red), so you'll want to do your best to build a high combo, as a higher combo results in a larger radius and likely-hood that an uruk will be branded. Unlike Talion or in The Test of the Ring Celembrior can only use Wraith Flash (or any red combo moves) once, so you'll need to hit uruks a few times to get your combo meter red again so you can use another Wraith Flash. If an uruk is about to attack you you're better off counter/evading, as it's possible to get hit in the moments before Celembrior slams his fist for the move. Remember, your first Wraith Flash at a combo at X5 isn't going to do much, but you're going to be seeing very nice result at X30 and up.

For the mission itself you'll want to hop down and gather some uruks around you. Once you've got a following build up your combo and use Wraith Flash. You'll now need to build up your combo to red again. Fortunately, you'll get some progress to this with the uruks you stunned from the prior burn. Do a few sword slashes (or counters/evades if you're attacked) to get back to red and use another Wraith Flash. If possible you'll want to angle your attacks towards a branded uruk, as attacking a non-branded one may kill him and leave you with one less chance of a possible brand. You'll be repeating this until you run out of uruks that can be branded, so pay attention to the mini map. You'll have more uruks flooding in to fight you from the north and south, so just roll over to them and continue what you're doing.

Edit: CanadaAckis has made mention of using knives to help build your combo back up. Using these can provide a bit more safety as they're fast to use, so keep them in mind. R A W Collings has mentioned that you can use The One Ring to spam Wraith Flash for it's duration. It's best to amass a large group of uruk before doing so, as this will greatly increase the ease of branding 20.

Remember that the mission will be completed once two minutes have elapsed after you've branded enough uruks to have an army of 15. If you're near the time limit just quit out of the mission and start it over from the beginning.

Edit: As mereel1 mentioned, you don't need to have 20 branded uruks at once. You just need to brand 20 in 60 seconds. Thus you don't need to worry if some die, be it by your hand or an enemy's.

Edit: ThePaleHorseman has listed another excellent way to get this achievement in the comments. If you find success with that method make sure to send some thanks in his direction!
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24 Feb 2015 20:18

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ThePaleHorseman's guide worked perfect for me as I had already completed the missions quoted above
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By Doberkiin on 14 Jun 2018 20:06
You know I've never actually used the knives. Bought the upgrade and completely forgot about it. Thank you for the reminder CanadaAckis, as using them will certainly help some players build up their combo with a greater degree of safety.

ThePaleHorseman, thank you very much for your excellent strategy, as well as catching my mistake of misnaming Wraith Flash as Wraith Burn.
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By Remeki on 25 Feb 2015 04:25
Hey guys, you found the perfect spot for this cheers!

One extra tip that helped me though: Just use the power of the ring to get unlimited wraith flash for a short period. Can be done with a really low combo then. No need to get 30x! Hope it helps :)
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By RAWCollings on 25 Feb 2015 08:49
just a note, you do NOT need all 20 at a time, doing this mission you can get a bunch, dispatch them all, and all of them will re-spawn giving you a bunch more to go after
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By mereel1 on 25 Feb 2015 20:29
Using the one ring is the way to go.
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By Fuzzmeister J on 25 Feb 2015 23:44
ThePaleHorseman's solution was great. It worked in less than 5 minutes. You just need to know what you're doing and that's it.
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By Dr Purrple on 01 Mar 2015 18:48
Shoutout to both Remeki and ThePaleHorseman, as I hadn't read this guide prior to playing the DLC. The stronghold method worked well. I got about 15 uruk following me while having a fully charged ring, activated, and when it ran out I kept running to the new uruks that were spawning in. Glad to get this out of the way!
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By Capt Poopey on 08 Mar 2015 06:53
Does anyone know if this can be done in Test of the Ring?
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By londonwelsh on 10 Mar 2015 20:56
Yes londonwelsh, it certainly can. In many ways it would be easier to do so, as outlined by ThePaleHorseman's solution.
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By Remeki on 10 Mar 2015 23:13
lol oh yeah, perhaps I'll read it properly next time!! redface
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By londonwelsh on 12 Mar 2015 18:49
Got it :)
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By londonwelsh on 13 Mar 2015 19:56
I finished the mission and then triying to get this achivement find this solution :(. But thanks to the help of ThePaleHorseman i was able to obtain it, thank you very much bro.
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By Abaddon D on 26 Mar 2015 08:07
this is the mission to do it on. the dagger usage was clutch. Something I'd like to add is that if it looks like you may finish the mission, hit the cn_down to dispatch all your branded orcs. This will reset the timer and respawn all the orcs giving you a second go at trying to get the achievement. Do it as long as it takes to get the achievement.
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By dropK1CK ninJA on 10 Jun 2015 13:35
+1 PaleHorseman. Enemies were too spread out for me during the missions. Hitting a stronghold worked great. I'm now one step closer to finishing this game for the 3rd time (working on GOTY edition). Thanks!
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By SpeleoFool on 01 Nov 2015 15:44
i got it done in strength in numbers at the begining after doing one mission to power up the ring. right near the begining a bunch spawn and used the ring and ran and did wraith flashes. just trying to help anyone that missed the earlier missions
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By PickleRick#6827 on 01 Dec 2015 08:27
I would plus one this, just because of ThePaleHorseman's solution, his guide helped my get this first try.......but alas, I have the GOTY Edition and I can't vote on this solution......

Thank you ThePaleHorseman!!!!
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By Warboy925 on 21 Jul 2017 18:03
Thanks, @IMWeasel666; I got it on my first try during the Strength in Numbers mission after I failed the other solutions suggested.

I just needed to use the ring once and spawned wraith flashes while running towards the orcs surrounding the tower you're defending. Make sure to wait for half a minute until there are enough Uruks around.
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By Theodoricus Rex on 22 Oct 2017 19:14
Don't get it. I'm definitely doing 20 before a minute on this mission. Hasn't popped.

EDIT: Tried Pale's solution as well. I'm getting as many as 30 Uruks with Wraith Flash and no pop.
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By Fooga on 29 Oct 2017 22:57
Great solution. One thing I found that helped me keep/increase my combo was dagger throwing - LT I believe. I was able to spam it and not really worry about killing orcs. Once I hit around an 40X combo I just kept on burning everytime my special was up.
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By Ackis on 25 Feb 2015 01:57
I'd write a solution myself, but the last time I wrote a solution for this game (the first one written for the achievement) people down voted it and talked shit in the comments despite the fact that every following solution was basically a copy and paste of mine.

Anyway that's not what's important. I'd just like to inform you of another, possibly easier, way. If you play the test of the ring trial you actually have access to two special moves per combo instead of one.

So the way I did it quickly and very easily was go into a stronghold and allow them to raise the alarm. Wait til you have a large group of enemies, build your combo, use wraith flash (not burn. Burn is the one that kills stunned enemies) twice. Then press down on the D pad to consume all branded enemies. This will build your combo up for every uruk killed with it.

You then will most likely only have to hit one enemy, if any at all, to regain your special move combo. Rinse and repeat. Just stay next to the alarm beacon and plenty of enemies will come running to get the achievement.
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By ThePaleHorseman on 25 Feb 2015 04:15
I somehow missed the achievement during the Press the Advantage mission. Without having read ThePaleHorseman's comment prior to starting the the Test of the Ring, I was able to do this achievement in similar fashion as he described.

Despite your bad prior experience posting a solution, I really think your comment deserves to be a solution of its own to give those who missed it during Press The Advantage a more than great chance to get this during the Test of the Ring, so please consider posting it as a separate solution.

When you do, make sure to let players know that during the Test of the Ring, you'll also have access to all five rune slots on each weapon too (the Bright Lord DLC only had three for each), making crowd control and regaining health even easier if you use the runes dealing with flurry kills.
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By celluloidbuff on 10 Mar 2015 19:40
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If playing in Story Mode I recommend achieving this trophy right after you build your 1st Forge Tower. You will need a very large number of Uruks surrounding you before you even start the branding process or you will run out of time. The only reasonable way to do this is to raise an alarm in a Fort or during certain DLC missions. If you've completed all missions and branded most everyone, then you've really run out of places to achieve this trophy in Story Mode.

With that said, this trophy can also be achieved via the Test of the Ring trial in any of those forts.

While the story mission Press the Advantage seems like a good place to attempt this trophy, I found the following more effective:
  • Run to Durthang Keep (or any fort really) and start killing Uruks to build up your One Ring power.
  • Keep branding Uruks until your One Ring power is ready to be activated.
  • At this point, run around for a few minutes and keep pressing the button over and over to prevent yourself from getting hit and to keep all of the gathering Uruks alive.
  • Once you have a large amount of Uruks surrounding you, activate the One Ring power ( + ) and start spamming Flash Brand ( + ).
  • If the trophy still has not popped when the One Ring power runs out, keep your Hit Streak alive and keep spamming Flash Brand as fast as you can.
  • Note: It is possible to get this trophy without using the One Ring power but with its ability to slow down time while active it sure does make it easier.Story related and cannot be missed.
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This achievement can be obtained in either the main story or in the Test of the Ring Trial. It may initially seem difficult, but after completing all the One Ring side missions and maximizing the Ring’s duration, it becomes incredibly simple. So with that established, go ahead and enter the East Garrison Stronghold in the south region of the map. 

Once you are there, make some noise and start fighting the Uruk, deliberately allowing one to raise the alarm. Once reinforcements show up and you are surrounded by enemies, start using Wraith Flash Domination when your Hit Streak allows for it to brand the mob of Uruk. Given one of Celebrimbor’s skills, much like Talion, you can execute two combat abilities in a row once your Hit Streak reached x8. Keep on using Wraith Flash Domination on the mobs and this achievement should unlock without issue, especially since the blast radius – or area of effect – of Wraith Flash Domination is incredibly large once your Hit Streak reaches x40 plus. 

If you feel as though you’re having issues with this achievement, this is where having the One Ring fully maxed out helps. Essentially, once enough enemies are around, activate the One Ring and start spamming Wraith Flash Domination since you have unlimited usage until the One Ring’s ability runs out. Either way, once 20 Uruk have been dominated in 60 seconds, this achievement will unlock. 

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I advise you to do this after completing the “Ring Missions”, the duration of the ring will greatly increase

The tactics are simple - gather more people around (better in the western camp, there are a lot of enemies there), activate the ring and spam the ghost flash, for 1 activation of the ring you will have time to complete this trophy
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we gather a crowd around us and with the counter full:

- + (group sealing) with the addition of “ Ring strength ” ( L3+R3 )

- “ power of the Ring ” ( L3+R3 ) plus + (group marking)

...combine to taste
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By t_too on 30 Apr 2015 21:49
I took the trophy purely by accident, capturing the rightmost tower.

The right tower will have the task of collecting a squad of 15 orcs. After which the berserk captain will come.
In my case, it turned out that my entire army had to be sacrificed to my health. And I was left alone against a squad of berserkers.
Having run back a little (where I was recruiting an army on assignment), I saw a standing crowd of orcs. Got into them, squeezing every time + as soon as the meter turns red. I reached the counter to 40 and with the last cast I summoned the orcs that were missing for the trophy.

By the way, I managed it without the power of the ring. So with a ring it will be even easier.
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By Lansecuter on 29 Dec 2020 23:57
in the next mission after building the first tower there will be a task “to make 50 Uruks attack each other in 4 minutes”, there, without touching anyone, just run and aggro as many Uruks as possible. As soon as a sufficient number is collected, activate the ring and brand everyone with a flash as quickly as possible +
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