| “ | At Pippin's side Beregond was stunned and overborne, and he fell; and the great troll-chief that smote him down bent over him, reaching out a clutching claw; for these fell creatures would bite the throats of those that they threw down. | ” |
–The Return of the King, The Black Gate Opens | ||
The Mountain Troll Chieftain is a boss Troll mob for good-aligned players to fight. He is about four meters high, with two heads, and is a stronger version of the normal Mountain Troll, with many new and enhanced abilities following the boss mechanics.
Successfully defeating the Mountain Troll Chieftain will not only earn you a lot of alignment and loot, but also a shield, and corresponding title. It will also earn you the achievement 'Long Live the Chieftain'.
Summoning the Chieftain
In certain parts of Middle-earth, Troll Totem pieces can be found.These can be found as rare drops from killing Mountain Trolls, and in troll hoard chests in the northern troll-infested biomes -Trollshaws, Coldfells, Ettenmoors, and Angmar.
There are three parts to the totem: the head, body, and legs. When these are all placed on top of each other at night, the mouth of the totem statue will open.
When right-clicked with any type of bone, the totem will promptly disappear, and the Mountain Troll Chieftain will rise from the ground. It is then up to the player to defeat it with the help of any hired units they may be commanding.
Please note: You must have negative Angmar alignment to do this
Troll totem during the day
Troll totem at night
Abilities
- A strong melee attack with very powerful knock-back.
- The ability to throw rocks from range, as with normal Mountain Trolls.
- Sometimes Troll Totem head blocks will be thrown instead of rocks, and these can spawn Trolls or Mountain Trolls.
- A devastating jump attack which throws all nearby entities into the air, executed when the player moves far away from the boss or when shot at with a ranged weapon. When using this jump attack, blocks that the boss passes through will be broken and sometimes dropped as items.
- The boss can sap health from nearby trolls, healing itself but killing them in the process. This ability combined with the troll-spawning ability can return the chieftain to almost full health very quickly if not prevented, especially in the later stages. Kill nearby trolls to stop this.
- Multiple levels of armour: after 'killing' the boss for the first time, its helmet will break and it will be restored to full health (double what it had originally). After 'killing' it for the second time its chestplate will break and it will again gain double health, and only then will you be able to defeat the boss.
- To ensure that the boss is killed by a player and not by other means, any damage sources which are not from a player or a hired unit only inflict one damage point (half a heart) to its health.
Like all types of mountain troll the Mountain Troll Chieftain will crumble into stone in sunlight. If you are fighting the boss in a biome where the sun shines (e.g. not Angmar or Mordor) then you have until sunrise to defeat it - or else the boss will disappear and you will not gain any rewards. You also lose those troll totems you worked hard for.
Rewards
Defeating the Mountain Troll Chieftain earns the achievement 'Long Live the Chieftain.' This in turn unlocks the Trollslayer Shield and title 'Trollslayer'. You also get +50 alignment with the appropriate factions (as if you had killed a normal Troll mob).
The chieftain drops an exclusive skull trophy, and has a 50% chance of dropping the Gondolinian Sword. He can drop several random items taken from the normal troll loot tables and the Troll Hoard loot tables.
Side of the Gondlinian Sword he have also a change probably 50 or 25% to drop a piece of Gondolinian gear in Beta 25 or higher.