Loose Orcs

March 9th

Highlights: First Tier of Minas Ithil

Barad Angarth, The Gate-Warden's Keep: Once you are ready to proceed out of the chilling mountains, the rangers will guide you up what I call "the elevator" system. For each tier of Minas Ithil, you will need to clear "the tower" and claim the rights to that level. Then you will be able to automatically jump to the camps of each level. Just know that the names might be confusing so always compare them to what circle requires them. It was easier for me to remember that over... whatever I just typed above. At this level, look for stairs nearby to exit. However I do highly suggest at least going up the stairs within the city for The Black Book of Mordor and collecting miscellaneous pages.

 

 

Circle of Wrath: Once you find the stairs that lead out, you'll encounter... well you'll first encounter some animation load time. They seemed to borrow the same loading issues as Minas Tirith. Then after your game finally decides to load in the area, you'll find two really fast respawning chests. Then when you decide to get around to killing something, you'll find two different orc factions sitting on their bums. Dargash leads the well-fortified orcs following Gothmog while the other orcs from the west just camp out nearly starving to death waiting for Shakfut's orders. Either way you go first, you will pretty much have to destroy both camps in the long run. There are rangers on the side to turn in quests and obtain new ones. Sometimes they will even port you back to camp. Of course the whole idea of the rangers is to make both camps angry enough to duke it out. This results in a battle - Harrowing of Morgul. The instance itself is pretty easy unless you forget to run away from Shakfut when he says "come closer". As a standard captain, the boss managed to kill me instantly with 250,000 damage on T2. It was not fun at all. If the tank is equipped well, you can manage this instance pretty easily.

 

2020-03-21