Weapon upgrades | Character development Middle-earth: SoM Guide

Each type of weapon can have a maximum of 5 rune slots

The last category are the upgrades for your weapons (the Upgrades tab) They are directly connected with eliminating Captains and Warchiefs of the Nemesis System, which you can learn more about from the chapter entitled Sauron's Army. Each Captain and Warchief that you defeat, drops a rune that you can apply to the sword, to the bow or to the dagger. The type of the dropped rune depends on the following:

• If you defeated a Captain or a Warchief with the sword, he drops a rune that can be applied to the sword, after he dies. .
• If you defeated a Captain or a Warchief with the bow, he drops a rune that can be applied to the bow, after he dies.
• If you defeated a Captain or a Warchief with the dagger, he drops a rune that can be applied to the dagger, after he dies.
• If you defeated one of the weaker members of the Sauron's Army the rune that he drops is a "regular" one . If, however, you have killed one of the stronger orcs, of the Sauron's Army, he may drop an epic rune of unique parameters and much higher usefulness.

By default, you can apply, to each of the weapons (sword, bow and dagger), only one rune(one selected from the runes currently owned by you). This limit can be raised, up to five runes and to do that, you need to buy new attributes connected with runes (to learn more, see the previous page of this chapter). Personally, I recommend that you unlock 2-3 slots, as soon as possible, because many of the runes are complementary for each other. Apart from that, it would be a pity if you could not use the epic runes straight away, to upgrade the weapon.

Note - applying a rune to a weapon is not irreversible. After you obtain better runes, you can easily replace the ones that you are no longer interested in.