WitN General Guide + Farin In-Depth (Solo+Co-Op)

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Hi guys, I'm MarioVX and this is my Lord of the Rings: War in the North guide. I've completed eight playthroughs of this game by now, most of them playing Farin. I enjoyed the game pretty much, so after I've gotten all the Steam Achievements and were practically done playing this game, I decided to write this guide to it to help other players that may have trouble finishing it, especially without co-op partners. This guide is by no means exhaustive, I kept it short so it's just enough to serve its purpose of allowing other players to finish the game at the highest difficulty without co-op partners without too much struggle. I hope you like it, and without further ado, let's get into it. Lord of the Rings: War in the North is an action-roleplaying game, so let's face it: you will spend most of the time fighting. Here are the basics to show you your repertoir and set you up: Offensive Melee Left Mouse Button - Basic Melee Attack A quick melee strike against a close enemy roughly in the direction you are facing. You can combine these to fluent succession, they cause normal damage and light hit reactions to the target and while you are performing them, you are immune to light hit reactions yourself (but not the damage that comes with it). They have no resource cost aside from a miniscule durability loss on your melee weapon, so this is the standard and best way to open up any normal fight and on its own sufficient to end them against defensively weak enemies. Clean hit streaks, uninterrupted through hit reactions, will eventually open up an opportunity to critically strike. Right Mouse Button - Heavy Melee Attack A very slow melee strike against a close enemy roughly in the direction you are facing. Inflicts more damage than a basic attack and a stronger hit reaction, but you are vulnerable to any hit reactions yourself while performing the attack, so you may be interrupted in doing so. Upon successful hit, you may quickly follow up with basic attacks. You should use this move only as a blockbreaker against currently parrying enemies, and only if no other enemies are close to you. Right Mouse Button, against marked target - Opening Critical Strike If your basic attacks have opened up an opportunity to critically strike an enemy, he will be marked by a small white triangle above his head. If you face him and are in range, this triangle becomes yellow, signaling you may now critically strike using RMB. Such a critical strike is a fast high-damage attack that puts you into critical streak mode. Whenever you see an opportunity to do so, do it. If the target is also staggered or knocked down, this becomes a finishing move. Left Mouse Button, in critical streak mode - Empowered Basic Attack Once you've entered critical streak mode, your basic attacks become empowered, dealing more damage and triggering heavier hit reactions. You're still immune to light hit reactions while performing them, but becoming subject to a heavy hit reaction will interrupt your streak and set you back into normal melee mode, just as not hitting an enemy for about three seconds. Defensive Melee Ctrl - Blocking Stance While in blocking stance, incoming damage will be significantly removed, you are immune to all except heavy hit reactions, and you move slower. Use this to respond to incoming attacks from normal enemies, and especially to those that cause medium hit reactions that would otherwise interrupt your movement flow. Successfully blocking an incoming melee attack will also trigger a stronger hit reaction on the attacker (without dealing any damage however), which opens a safe timeframe for you to attack him without having to fear an incoming attack. All in all, Blocking has two main purposes: Diminishing incoming damage and conserving your critical streaks. Ctrl + Left Click - Push While blocking, you may also actively trigger a heavy hit reaction on an enemy, while doing almost no damage, to open the mentioned timeframe for a safe attack without having to wait for your enemy to attack you. You can also perform this move quickly to interrupt incoming attacks. Direction + Spacebar - Dodge Roll Dodge Rolls are great to avoid slow, heavy strikes by large enemies, and projectile shots if you time them well. During the roll, you are insusceptible to any damage or hit reactions, but it has a brief preparation time, which makes it inappropriate to avoid quick melee strikes. You may also use it to quickly reposition yourself - it's a very versatile move. Ranged Alt - Ranged Stance While in ranged stance, your field of view is reduced in favor of higher zoom, you move slowly and are vulnerable to any attacks. In this stance, you may use ranged attacks, our you can just use it to peak into the distance. You can use the mousewheel to zoom in even further. Alt + Left Mouse Button - Basic Ranged Attack Shoot your bow, crossbow or magic staff in the direction of your crosshair. Unlike melee attacks, this uses a resource, namely arrows or bolts, or prepared charges and power, so don't use these wastefully. The damage of ranged attacks is hit zone dependent. Headshots cause significantly increased damage, and even more does hitting the target's eyes. If an enemy is standing directly in front of you while trying to shoot, a combat kick is performed instead, causing a light hit reaction but no damage and shoving the enemy back slightly. Alright, neglecting skills for now, this is your full combat repertoir so far. Reading through it, this arsenal seems a bit complex and vast to all keep in mind, but by trying it out, you will see that Snowblind Studios succeeded in creating a natural, intuitive and fun combat system. Just give it a shot. I conclude this section with a set of tips: Use basic melee attacks to attack your enemies and build up critical opportunities. Critically strike as soon as you can. Keep up a fluent critical streak with empowered basic attacks as long as possible - it also grants bonus XP! It's better to block than to bleed. Not just because of damage, but because of initiative. Against groups, frequently shift targets to keep them at bay, block more often instead of trading hits, and eventually escape with a dodge roll. Mobility is trump. Be efficient. I don't want it to get too theoretical here, but I found it very helpful to think about the issues of money, health, power, ammunition, durability, experience points and time using an abstract, generalized concept. All of these are resources, and you are constantly transforming some of them into others; the challenge comes from restrictions in your ability or opportunity to do so. You're supposed to be efficient, and time is the only infinite resource in our model, so it is the value we are optimizing when looking for optimal strategies, with all the other resources providing boundary conditions to our optimization problem. Let's look at these resources individually: Money You gain money directly and indirectly from looting and through quest rewards, that means, by investing time into the game. The more thoroughly you explore the game world, picking up more loot, discovering more secrets, completing more side quests, the more money you get from it, up to a hard cap where you take everything with you and do everything that there is. You use money to buy better equipment (which conserves all other resources), repair damaged equipment (transform it into durability), replenish your ammo, health and power potions, or buy a respec token in case you skilled your character inefficiently. Health Health is simply a boundary condition: you have to keep it above 0 in order to progress, that's it. There is current health, maximum health, and stored health (potions). Current health may not exceed maximum health. Having more health only gives you the opportunity to react to incoming damage by drinking a potion in time, but you don't fight more efficient or anything if you have more health; it just may never drop to 0. If it does, you may hav