Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor - Rising Storm Rune

Poorly described. The implication is that you'll have access to unlimited combat finishers, but the description fails to mention that it merely unlocks the ABILITY to get unlimited combat finishers but in a very small window of time. What's worse is that I'd already unlocked the ability to have this small window of unlimited combat finishers already. So I paid money to get something that I already had access to. I hate DLC.

TL;DR Save your cash unless you merely want to have the 'Storm of Urfael' ability off by the beginning of your playthroughs. Honestly I regret purchasing this, but this is mostly caused by user error of oversight in terms of not reading the description properly. I read that the rune would enable me to use unlimited combat finishers regardless of having the 'Storm of Urfael' ability, somehow. (I'm running on above 17 hours without sleep, btw. So don't be surprised if I come off as incoherent with my sentences and whatnot, because I very well am). But with that said, I wish It were what I thought it was rather than this now seemingly recycled ability only sold for the purpose of allowing players to use the ability from the start of their playthrough. So in this way, I can't say I'd like to recommend this, so I won't. We used to have what was referred to back in the day as: Cheat Codes. Feels like that'll be left in the past, I guess. I also didn't like how Monolith recycled runes in their free Power of Shadow DLC. Disappointingly unstackable, too. Oh, well. But I get it, I know the point is to have the abilities by the start of your (ideally first) playthrough, and I guess I only spent a mere dollar on this piece of DLC, so.. Can't say I'm upset or anything. Lastly, for those who reportedly claim to not obtaining the rune in-game; you NEED to restart Steam after your purchase before the download for the DLC will begin. That's just how it works. Anyhow, enjoy yourselves in what's been one of the best Middle-earth based games (in my opinion) for a long-long time.

So when are they going to release more game content instead of a bunch of runes? I already own without amazing runes to help. I mean, they kinda make you a beast to start out with. All the over powered stuff like this rune just make you unstoppable.

[b]DLC verdict: Don't get it[/b] [b]Comment:[/b] This rune gives you the Storm of Urfael, an endgame sword ability that lets you have unlimited amount of finishers while active. Normally you would unlock this skill in the attributes tree where it is located at the bottom and costs 2500 Mirian points. This DLC is part of the Season Pass/Premium Edition/GOTY Edition so you will get it if you bought those. And this way you get to test it. But buying it by itself is nonsense. For the balance of the game, and the fact that this is an unlockable skill in the tree, I recommend against buying (or using) this. ------------------------------------------------------------------ [b]If you liked this DLC review you can find more in my [/b][url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/srcorner][u]Review Corner[/u][/url][b].[/b]

*Warning* Honestly do not know why they still offer the DLCs separately except to trick people who don't know to buy the GOTY upgrade that includes all of the game's DLC. None of the DLC including this one is worth buying separately when the GOTY upgrade is $9.99. None of the DLC are "great" but if you want a little more don't buy them individually. Just adds a single ruin, don't get by itself.

This DLC is fine if you like shortcuts - you can get this in game without paying for it. As it stands I feel this should have been included in the Expansion Pass - but there you go. If you have problems with this purchase go to the installed DLC section and see if it has installed - if not, de-select it and then select it again, wait for Steam to install the DLC - you should then see it as a rune in game.

Please save your money on this piece of DLC. I purchased the Season Pass for this game, and didn't receive this rune on my Steam account. It listed it as for sale, but not a part of my library. The Season Pass states, "Future content including additional Warband Missions, Runes, & Skins: Enhance your weapons with powerful Runes and customize Talion’s appearance with unique skins." This rune should have been part of the Season Pass, and I will be contacting Steam about this. For now I don't recommend buying this. Update 11/13/14 Steam has refunded my money, and the item still appears on my account as owned. I believe this DLC is now showing as being owned by owners of the Season Pass. I'm going to put recommended on my review now. I did play with the rune in game, and it's somewhat decent.

Adds a rune to the game that allows unlimited use of reach in combat. The rune itself makes all fights incredibly spectacular, which can not help but please the eye of the player.

This isn't really a DLC as much as a cheap cash grab, you can get this for playing the game naturally so I don't recommend buying it, I only have it because it came with the GOTY edition of the game that I bought a year ago.

[h2]Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor - Rising Storm Rune[/h2] I slotted this thing early game. But it never even activated on hitting both triggers. I had to actually unlock that skill in the skill tree. Good thing I didn’t pay for this DLC separately.

bought this quite by accident in a pack of other add-ons and am stunned that you can lower the difficulty for money. Why are there so many runes in the game? With each new one it is impossible to understand what is happening.

Do not be misled by the fact that this is a buyable rune to think the ability cannot be unlocked in the game. It can! You have to earn the ingame currency by playing weapon missions. I bought this rune being mislead by this! It may still be worth it though as it is an expensive ability. Plus like in other comments this rune does not unlock unlimited combat finishers such as execution and combat brands/drains. you have to charge it by getting melee (not stealth) kills (about 20 maybe possibly idk really but still not a lot with how many uruks and orcs there are in the game) and you get 20 seconds to use "unlimited" combat finishers. overal it's really a neutral for me despite me rating it up! (Writing a review you have to rate one way or another)

I could never get it to work. I'd equip it and nothing would be different. Then I unlocked it on the skill tree by just playing the damn game for 15 hours. Can't really hate on it too much though, since it did come free with the GOTY edition even if it didn't work

Es una runa épica al principio, pero de una habilidad que luego obtenes en el juego, no te conviene.

Also on the negative side, this rune, plus the free ones from Power of Shadow cannot be broken down...ever ! If you get this, it's going to sit in your rune inventory permanantly, you can't even delete it if you already have the Storm unlocked. Poor design there.

i love the game but i bought the rising storm rune DLC and i havent recieved in ingame. ive also check the DLC tab under the properties of the game and it isnt there. please resolve. thank you

Got the GOTY edition on sale with all the so called "DLCs" - so a cheatrune is a DLC hu? DLCs with items that ruin the balance of the game - one might think that 80% of the gamedevelopers on this planet are f.cking morons

I bought Rune....yet there is not Rune in game yet..... $1, but it's the principle of the matter. Will this download later? Steam please fix soon, thank you. EDIT : This Rune DLC now shows in my DLC list! Thank you Steam and WB for fixing this!!

This DLC is at the moment BUGGED and will CRASH YOUR GAME FOR SIMPLY HOVERING OVER IT. Not to mention that the function, as mentioned in a million other reviews, is already present in the game to begin with if you just grind a few captains for trash runes.

Average AAA publisher-Lets take a skill thats really difficult to get for a reason, and give it to players for free! I can't see how they would be anything but delighted!

Wow, what an amazing dlc, 1 silly ingame "item"..... Im at loss of words. People dont buy this please, it doesnt make any sense

the entire description is a lie...... it says when read that it gives you the ability of the sword of urfael and you get unlimited combat finishers.it DOES NOT DO THAT im very angry that i just wasted a $ for no reason on an item that does nothing. and if it DOES do something neither the description in game nor the lie its sold on do much to explain

i did not personally use this based on my play style. can be useful for other players. 8/10 useful dlc. == if you read this until here i made a game for iOS called "FatHatBoy" please check it out <3

This should not be dlc. You can easily get this ability for free by just playing the game normally. Don't waste your money.

This is not DLC, it's something that should've been in the base game, not worth it if you didn't get the season pass. DLC implies content that changes the game majorly and this doesn't, DLC shouldn't exsist to begin with....

If you feel like dropping a buck for 1 item in game, I'd recommend this one, considering the ability it gives you is so heinously overpowered it's hilarious.

Buy This game and make sure to use the dlc runes from start. Have fun :-)

This should have been included with the season pass. What a dick move!

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Not a part of Season Pass. U doen f'ed it up, Steam.

Now with season pass, unfair to neg it any more.

Should have been a NG+ feature or something like that.

Not recommend can't play as Spice Girls

stuff like this shouldn't be a dlc

doesnt work the way its discribed

I dont need to buy this because i alredy have this rune.

Shouldn't have to buy a rune

Got it from GOTY edition ;)

money grab

what does this rune do?

55555/5

Pay to cheat.

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got this game for $4, worth it

should be in the game

Extremely useful. I use this all the time.

Nice games

XD microtransactions

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6/10