

Your banished-from-death-ness skills show up here. Skills like Freeze Pin, which immobilizes an enemy, or the teleportation-like Shadow Strike are here.

Rangedīow skills fall into the Ranged category. Running silently and poisoning grog barrels from a distance are two skills you’ll unlock here. These are your sneaky and stealth-based skills. Things like executions and parries (counters) fall into this category. CombatĬombat skills are, unsurprisingly, involved in combat. but the upgrades are kind of all over the place and will often change how you’ll use a skill. The broad categories are easy enough to describe and understand - stab things, shoot things, ride things, etc. We’re going to list the skill categories below, but we have to point out that it’s hard to break them down comprehensively. And, obviously, you can only get upgrades to skills you own. Talion’s skill tree works from left to right - to purchase a skill, you need to have purchased the one to its left first. Middle-earth: Shadow of War skill tree So, so many choices. This guide will run through the (broad) categories of skills in Talion’s tree, then call out the best and most useful ones, the ones to unlock first and early, as well as our favorites. With so many options to choose from, figuring out what to purchase next can be really intimidating. You get a lot of Skill Points as you play (we had 46 or so by the time we got to level 23.) Other skills and upgrades unlock with quests and activities. You’ll earn these every time you level up and complete various activities in the game. Most of them - a skill or an upgrade to a skill - cost one Skill Point. Talion has 33 skills available to choose from, and those 33 skills have a total of 87 upgrades to add into the mix. Like a lot in Middle-earth: Shadow of War, your skill tree is extensive, complex and mostly unexplained.
