In several missions, someone from the Fellowship of the Ring or somebody from the movies will join your party to help you defeat a certain boss or difficult enemy. These are the people that will occasionally become a fourth member of your party:
Eastern Moria - Gandalf, when fighting the Balrog of Morgoth.
East Emnet Gullies - Aranel, when fighting large groups of Uruk-hai.
Helm's Deep - Legolas, when fighting the first battle on the wall, and Gimli, when defending the wall after it has been breached.
Osgiliath - Faramir, when fighting the boss Gothmog.
Minas Tirith - Gandalf, when fighting the Witch-King of Angmar.
Pelennor Fields - Eowyn, when fighting the Witch-King of Angmar again, and Aragorn, when fighting three huge trolls and some the eight remaining Ringwraiths.
An easy way to do Minas Tirith Evil mode
The hardest bit on this is where you use the witch king of agmar. Gandalfs attacks take off 24000 at a time. So first you use the fear mode on gandalf, then kill berethor,then the other two. Beacause you used fear with gandalf he wont attack you. Now kill him, doing that you will get weapons, armour and cloaks for your game save.
Ancient Elfstones
This code is primarily for people who have already beat the game at least once. If you want to start out a new game, there is a very effective way to boost your hit points, armor values, action points, and protection. First, start a new game in Eregion, then when you are near the Elven outpost save your game. Next, complete the Evil Mode of Pelennor Fields. After you successfully finish this, save the items you have acquired onto the new game save. You will now have Ancient elfstones, which cause your values to go up about 200 points (example: if you have 500 HP and you equip an Ancient Elfstone of Health Enhancement, your HP will be about 700 or so.) This technique is very helpful, especially during the early portions of the two Moria chapters.
Beating the Balrog
Beating this moster is very hard when you do not know how to beat him. He has about 70,000 HP and when he attacks, the attack can occasionally take off your AP and massive amounts of HP. Gandalf and three other players of your selection are with you. To beat him, stalk up on Elf Medicines (brings back a downed player) and keep Gandalf alive at all costs, use your other players to use the Elf Medicines, Kingsfoils, and Lambas potions to return health and AP to other players. I would recomend using Gandalf and the Elf Girl to attack it, use other charactors to use potions. WAtch out for Balrog attacks like Pilar of Fire and Inferno Breath, they not only take life off you, but also AP.
Better healing
If you use Elf Medicine, try and use it with Idrial. If this is done, it will give full health instead of half.
Building skills
Get some of the best skills very early in the game, just practice. In the first level, find an enemy respawn point near a save point. Once there, keep attacking until you run out of AP and save the game. Your AP should have refilled, as well as your health. Keep doing this, and after a few hours you will get the special move from Berethor that can hit an enemy five times in a row. Note: This works for all characters, and not just Berethor.
Defeating the Witch King
To defeat the Witch King at the Pelennor Fields, make sure that you have Hadhod's Second Age Dwarven Mithril Piercing Axe and the Dwarven Mithril Helm. When you face the Witch King, use these attacks: Berethor's Stunning Strike and Ectehlion Wrath, Hadhod's Mountain Rage, and Eaoden's Enraging Blow and Rohirrim Rage. The Witch King has 200,562 HP and 59,098 AP.
Easy Balrog Kill
When you are fighting with the balrog, make sure you have many healing Items(Ex: kingsfoil). Gandalf will do hits of 5,000-6,000.Keep doing that and drain AP and heal at a reasonabale time. Soon the balrog will be dead with Gandalf stands.
Easy skill building
To level up skills more quickly have Elegost in your party and use the "Arrows of Sleep" skill to immobilize the enemy, Then cast Berethor's leadership skill "Fellowship Grace" to regenerate any AP points used, then build skills with each of the other party members using skills that are nonevasive to the enemy making sure not to awaken them. Kill any enemies that are immune to the sleep spell.
Note: This works more effectively if you have Elegost's passive skills "Sleep Volley" which will affect all enemy's that are not immune to sleep spells, and Elegost's passive skill "Lingering Sleep" which will extend the effect of the sleep spell for the remainder of the battle.
Easy way to kill any boss
First all you need is the elfs spell power of the valinor. which allows you to ataumattically bring a character back to life when they die. at first fight just use this spell on the elf herself, then use it on anyone else. i recomend using it on your best character only and let the others die. on eye of sauromon, use it on idrail and berethor. this way they die and come back with full health and ap. so its actually possible to beat the hardest bosses with 2 people both really low levels.
Easy way to kill any boss
First all you need is the elfs spell power of the valinor. which allows you to ataumattically bring a character back to life when they die. at first fight just use this spell on the elf herself, then use it on anyone else. i recomend using it on your best character only and let the others die. on eye of sauromon, use it on idrail and berethor. this way they die and come back with full health and ap. so its actually possible to beat the hardest bosses with 2 people both really low levels.
Eregion Sidequests
Sidequests are smaller missions that are not required to beat the level. However, they can yield great amounts of experience points. The sidequests in Eregion are:
Hunt the Wild Men
Hunt the Warg Packs
If you complete these missions, Berethor can gain up to 2 extra levels. (If you are playing as Idrial or Elegost, they can also gain these levels.)
Everlasting health
Once your Elf healer gains the Valor move that presets whoever you choose with an instant revival when ever you die,
use it at the beginning of each battle on her first, then on everyone else. If you maintain this so that no enemies can truly kill you,you will almost always be the victor.
Evil mode
To unlock Evil Mode, defeat each stage in the game.
Extension To Easy Skill Building
As an extension to my previous tip, when battling a fire goblin chieftain in western Moria, only use one character at a time to build skills. Otherwise it will take far too long. However, some characters can only complete one skill. Instead of using drain inspiration and fellowship grace for action points, simply use Arnor mushrooms for that character. Then when all of the goblins action points are gone and he can't attack you any more, let the other two characters retreat. [When you have completed one character's skills, kill the goblin and look for another one for another character. The best place to find them is in Morias Necropolis but you may have to run in circles to activate the fight] To do this, play in normal or easy mode as you will not get enough Arnor Mushrooms in hard mode.
Berethor
Build leadership Skills using company might constantly
Idrial
Build Spirit power Skills by using gift of Elrond constantly
Elegost
Build ranger craft Skills by using Kingsfoil Grace constantly [You will have to unlock this move first]
Hadhod
Build spirit power Skills by using endure flame constantly
Morwen
Unlock all skills by using battle haste for double axe craft and steal item for thief craft [Morwen is the only character that can unlock all moves in one go]
Eaoden
Build spirit powers by using dispel constantly
This skill building can also be used if you have equipped an Elfstone such as shadowcraft or lightcraft. For shadowcraft use dispel constantly [goblins are also immune to fear so you can also use that] and for lightcraft use Gift of Galadriel constantly. Advice: Give Elegost Lightcraft skills and Idrial Shadowcraft Skills. Do not use an item crafting Elfstone as some items need to be unlocked with 150 usages.
Good sword for Berethor
To start the the game with a very good sword for Berethor (the first character you start with), do the evil mode of Osgiliath and save it on an early game. By doing this, you will get the Sword Of Isildur, which has a 200+ damage rating. At the beginning of the game, you can give at least 2,000 damage points from a normal hit with this weapon.
Haldir, Elf lord
Finish the game on hard mode.
Hidden Chests
These chests are generally hard to find, since they are hidden in small places or behind walls.
Eregion - Search around the back of the Elven outpost, and there will be a small section of raised land behind the right wall. Go into it and find the chest.
Minas Tirith - Once you get to the highest level (the Citadel, where Gandalf tells you to find the Banner of Elendil), look behind a short wall that has some stairs near it. Open it and you will get a few very useful items.
Item Exploit
Go to Eregion after you get the Craft Item Stone. Then, find an Archer. Cast Fellowship Grace with Berethor and the Haste Of The Elves ability with Idrial on whoever has the Craft Item Stone equipped. You will never run out of AP, and the character creating items goes very fast, producing a lot of items. This is especially useful for the Elf Medicine item. Also, you can level up character abilities that do not damage foes.
Learn New Skills Easily
To learn new skills for your characters quickly and early in the game, there is a simple way to do it. You must first finish the Western Moria level. Then when you save in the next level, travel back to Western Moria. Travel until you find a battle with a fire goblin cheiftain. These enemies only have one attack and when their action points run out, they can not attack. Remain in the battle until the goblins action points run out. [Use Elegost to examine its remaining action points] Then when he can no longer attack, use skills that have no effect on the goblin e.g idrials spirit powers and berethors leadership skills. Use idrials drain inspiration to getaction points back.
Lot of Armor for Elegost and Morwean
When you play with Elegost or morwean they die easly,thats because they have little armor.Make sure they have atleast
1.After they will put up with fight and Eaoden heals himself.
Note: Elegost is the third guy you meet and Morwean is the 4th with Eaoden the 5th guy you meet.
Many items
Right after you fight the first part of Helms deep and return to the armory make sure to save your game. Leave and take an immediate left and press X at the lights to get items and elfstones. Return to the armory, save and exit the game. Load the game again and you will still have the items you collected and be ble to collect the same items again. (Although they arent very useful)
Minas Tirith Evil Mode
This Evil Mode is probably the hardest in the game. When you get to use the Witch-King, make sure you take out Gandalf first. If you don't, he can use Bolt of the Valar on you, which takes off about 24,000 HP every time. Then take out Berethor, who can smash you with Gondor Rampage. The other two warriors in the party are generally not as dangerous, so concentrate on them last.
NOTE: Elegost can really damage you with True Shot, so you might want to take him out too. Morwen can also slice off chunks of your health with Rohirric Rampage.
Restore HP and AP
If you are low on HP or AP, find a save point. Save your game and both your HP and AP will be completely refilled.
SP Exploit
In Eregion, after talking to Idrial in the first elven waystation, you will fight your first Orc Shaman. This fight is just the beginging of your easy journey. Follow the path to the left and right sides after the fight, you can finish off a side mission that I missed until Moria, the Wildmen.
After defeating the 2 warbands in the area proceed to follow the Ravine Path. Congrats, you have made it to the only section of the game where the monsters respawn faster than you can kill them. Stand in the first corner of the path you come across. Fights now brought to you by The Eye Of Sauron. If you want to heal use items or the save point just up ahead. Stay in this ravine and fight fight fight until you have learned what you wanted to learn.
Note: This helps you learn new skills faster, but it will not help you gain levels, on SP.
The Eye of Sauron
When you are fighting the Eye of Sauron, it is important to know quite a few things. It is best to have your party consist of Berethor, Idrial, and Eaoden. Berethor should have the following skills: Double Attack and Gondor Rampage. Idrial should have this skill: Elven Rage. Eaoden should have learned these: Frenzy, Drain Health, and Rampage of Helm. It is possible to beat Sauron without these talents, but it's a whole lot easier if you have them. To actually beat the Eye, use a Morgul Decay on him. This will completely remove his armor and make it possible to beat him in about two hits from Berethor. When you get to use Eaoden, hit Sauron with either Horse Lord Skewer, Rampage of Helm, or a three-hit combo. When you use Idrial, use either Elven Rage or use her to restore health and action points. When you get to Berethor, have him do a Double Attack, then use Gondor Rampage on Sauron. The Eye should be dead by the time Berethor has hit him twice with the five-hit move. If he isn't, just keep repeating these steps over and over again.
Transferring Evil Mode treasure
Any treasure acquired in Evil Mode can be transferred to a regular saved game.
Weapon and Armor Penalties & Advantages
When you equip a new weapon, make sure you look at its penalties and advantages. This can be done by pressing Square when the weapon's name is highlighted. Many weapons have special advantages that boost your Spirit (AP), Armor, Constitution (HP), and speed. More damaging weapons usually give you more health, but deduct some Speed from your character. The same goes for armor. If you have a set of armor (like Berethor's Citadel Guard chestplates, greaves, vambraces, helms, and faulds), having the entire set equipped can give you quite significant bonuses.
