Power Explain Please

[Rabid Urko]

Its probably me but could someone humour me , ive played a bit and tried googling ....

Each orc captain has a power rating and you collect power ratings for yourself to addon , but where do you see you rating ? (i can see health bar)

How do you tell if a captain is a lower power rating than yourself , for now ive just been doing missions and fighting them as i come across them.

[Wispouille]

if you mean for exemple a warchief as a power rating of 20 , orc are 1 to 20, you don't have the same rating for talion. He just have his skill , life , focus and arrow

[Rabid Urko]

Originally posted by Wispouille:

if you mean for exemple a warchief as a power rating of 20 , orc are 1 to 20, you don't have the same rating for talion. He just have his skill , life , focus and arrow

Why bother with the power rating for a captain if it makes no difference to the difficulty ?
You get power for completing missions but i cant see where any figure is shown of the total.

[Wispouille]

yes it does , if a orc is lvl 20 he has a lot of skills , killing caragor in one blow for example or you can't touch him with execution etc. a orc with lvl 1 will have a lot of fear and will be easy to kill

you have to get intel from the others orc to know what are the specification of each orc , so yeah the lvl matters it's just not related to talion. It can be easy to kill a lvl 20 if you get intel first and you plan your attack on him

[Rabid Urko]

I realise about getting all the intel ect cheers, so the the power you collect as talion just makes you stronger but doesnt relate to the same power rating of the orcs ? bit wierd but im understanding it a bit better now.

Id have thought it would have been better if you collected power as Talion and it made a figure that related to an enemy.

Say if enemy was 11 rating and Talion was 7 , hed have a tough fight.

Thats why i thought there would have been a total figure for him.
As it is i cant see an actual reason for talions power unless it just increases the helath bar as you collect it.

Thanks for help anyway.

[Wispouille]

yep , you don't have to restrain youserlf ^^ you can beat a lvl 20 with no upgrade but you will need intel , a good plan with the right spot (a place with explosif barrel or carabor etc)

you can manage the difficulty , if you want the game the be hard don't get any intel let some orc kill you so they will be your nemesis , don't upgrade your health to fast. and if you want it to be easy do the opposite ^^

happy i could help

[Rabid Urko]

I thought you had to start with low level enemies and work your way outward of map.

Thanks again.

[Wispouille]

you can do that to , the choice is yours but you will find the game easy after a couple of hours.

to be honest with you i had trouble at start too , but i had to start over because of a bug (i just lost couple of hours but my second start was more productif ^^) and the main story aside the lore is basically a big tutorial for the nemesis system and how to do what ever you want with the orc army

[Rabid Urko]

lol i played 12 hours, but first 6 or 7 was just messing around.

[MJ1911]

Okay, so Power in this game is called levels in other games. The reason they called it power is because after killing them, all that power they had, you take it for yourself not so that your own power/level will increase because you have no level, but it is used for unlocking 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th ability tiers. Each unlock requires more and more power which means it's better to go for higher powered captains than the lower ranked ones by sending death threats (+5 Power) or completing power struggles (40 power + power from the captain).

In the upgrades tab, it shows how much power you need to accumulate to reach the next tier as well as how much you've earned so far in reaching that tier.

[Rabid Urko]

Originally posted by M4RK:

Okay, so Power in this game is called levels in other games. The reason they called it power is because after killing them, all that power they had, you take it for yourself not so that your own power/level will increase because you have no level, but it is used for unlocking 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th ability tiers. Each unlock requires more and more power which means it's better to go for higher powered captains than the lower ranked ones by sending death threats (+5 Power) or completing power struggles (40 power + power from the captain).

In the upgrades tab, it shows how much power you need to accumulate to reach the next tier as well as how much you've earned so far in reaching that tier.

Cheers

[Rabid Urko]

Im realising now after a few hours, its a waste of time to go after lower level captains after killing a few higher ones as the runes are useless from the lower ones (generally).

[Sekata]

I think i can shed some light on this. Power rating matters early game. It counts almost as a second experience bar. If you go into your upgrade screen, you'll notice that many of the powers are locked in the early game by a red lock signal. You have to raise your power tier to gain access to them. You do this by invading uruk missions and killing high level captains and warchiefs. Gaining enough power grants you the ability to purchases higher tier abilities.

This is in contrast to golden lock abilities, which can only be unlocked by progressing through story missions.

After all tiers have been unlocked, the power level is largely useless to the player, though several other things about it are also worth noting:

* The base level of the rune you will receive is determined by the power rating of the captain you kill for it. Additional levels are added to the rune based on intel, fear exploited, warchief status, etc.

*The power level can roughly indicate how many weaknesses a captain is likely to have even before you get intel on the captain.

*Acquisition of epic runes does not seem to be tied to the level of the captain, as these runes normally are not leveled themselves.

*Invading an uruk mission is worth a base of 40 points, and the level of the captain is added to the total power awarded for the invasion. Killing a captain outside of invasion only nets the captains level. Warchief missions are worth 70 base.

I've found that a strong strategy is to wait for a captain to hit level 15 before sending a death threat. This is because any rune that i get from killing them will at least be level 20 if its not epic.

As a side note, if you want a level 25 rune. Let a captain kill you, death threat him, help him reach level 20, make him a warchief, and kill him (while having intel on him of course).

Hope this was helpful!

[Rabid Urko]

Cheers

[-Trisk-]

I am having some issues wit ha level 20 captain... impossible to kill, not a single swing, executions, ranged or caragoth can hurt him... I am just stuck in the sotry mode cos i cant kill him..

[germality]

Power rating always matter but once you get powerful enough (Tier 2 and 3 skills) you can pretty much kill everybody with ease.

Power rating effects how many Weaknesses and Strenghts your enemies have. It's pretty cool.