With a sorceress I would do hell mephisto runs (with moat trick if gear is too bad to risk normal confrontation). In addition to shako he can drop most of the other important items and it takes much less time to reach him.
u go and aggro him and than go backwards across that little bit of water and stand back. He won’t cross that and u can stay back and do damage without being hurt
Does moat trick work with orb? I'm on Switch controller version so orb aims better than Blizzard and im mostly single player so i need to be orb+ fireball to solo the game
@@LordBattleSmurf the range is shorter so its abit tricky, but should work, i used to do it on the "left" side of the center. Also, i highly recommend going orb+firewall instead. it does waaaay more damage than fireball. Try it, you'll thank me later.
Just fyi, your frozen orb deals the most damage at the point of explosion. If you take a couple steps back and make the orb explode on Baal, you will find that it does way more damage :)
Whenever I want a shako I just run around act 1 hell stoney field to outer cloister and just Kill all the packs since they are all perfect lvl for dropping shako.. it never fails I will find one faster this way than any other way...finding items in d2 is all about monster lvl and drop tables
@@plumtree8713 D3 can’t hold a candle to D2…I don’t know why but in D2 there was a thrill to finding loot but in D3 it was all just … eh… I can’t explain it but they messed with the formula and it just didn’t feel right. Finding that only shako in the mausoleum probably felt great. I can remember loads of moments like that in D2 but only one in D3…finding calamity on my DH before the game was made much easier.
@@markgowanlock8544 bro I 100% feel exactly the same. Played only one character on d3.. a paladin and got to end game and hated/abhorred the game. D2 rules
Nice vid but for anyone that's planning on playing an orb sorc, if you see how long it took to kill Griswold and Baal, that's because he didn't line up correctly, you want the orb to detonate inside the boss, not behind it
^ exactly. I find with Blizzard it's best to click near the mob you want to kill rather than namelock on them. For whatever reason it seems to hit more than when it's namelocked.
I think the best way to get a shako is by farming hell Andarial/Mephisto. Or any high level area that you can clear with decent speed, like ancient tunnels, the pit, chaos or world stone keep. Cannot wait to get one on D2R...
Honor Neun yes but the other usual farm spots that he has listed drops the other uniques that you either want or don't want and in which case you are looking for something more specific than another Druid mallet for example or an unique ring that is not a SoJ. Shako has always eluded me from the usual farm spots but not in Cows and Griswald in Tristam Nightmare more than Hell difficulty. D2 has always been that ARPG game to have a reason to lower the difficulty for many reasons when hunting or magic finding specific unique items. Don't get too attached to playing Hell Mode all the time😉.
@@robertkaszti6103 problem with that, is as the ilvl goes up so does the mlvl. In other words the loot table expands with higher difficulty, “polluting” the potential drop. If one is after a specific item, it’s best to reduce the loot table by lowering the difficulty.
With frozen orb u want to hit your enemies with the end of the flying ball, so that it explodes on target. This way your clearing speed will reduce a lot. Just saying 😅
Glwt 🤭shooting just past allows for more exposure and the ball releases more shards.. so given the radial spread just passed gives the max damage per orb..just saying 🤫😏
Finally found my first sol to make insight yesterday doing count. (Haven't played in 15+ years) put the runes in a war fork. Pissed I went to arcane, opened the first chest i saw and a sol came out. RNJesus had my back. Moral of the story, open shit lol.
It completed a hidden quest and if you completed it you couldnt create anymore, it wasnt a bug. If you completed the quest the Cow King dropped "Stamina Potions / Milk Bottles", thats how you knew someome created the game who didnt have the quest completed and now you also couldnt create cow games anymore.
For Orb sorc, its best cast your orb, which takes over 2 seconds. While its plowing through enemies, spam static field. This works best if you have more than 1 point in SF... you want to make the field as wide as possible. You will MELT through cows. Typically 1 orb and 3 casts of static if you have some decent gear.
Ive never found one in how ever many years!! Theres a learning curve for new players. You haven't played a game like this before. I tend to buy one for around UM later in the season ✌️
Not really. It depends on how fast you can kill. Most people aren't going to be able to speed through Hell Baal (especially as a Sorceress with all of the immunes) until they already have the gear they would want to farm for in the first place. Highest drop chance doesn't mean most chances in the same amount of time.
@@Neonmirrorblack exactly my thoughts. When trying to farm these items, the player probably doesn't have the stuff to run hell or doesn't have the ability to trade for it.
@@LEK Requires no gear? Is that a joke? Not only does Andariel have a terrible drop rate solo, Hell Mephisto requires *some* decent gear to not get demolished by stygian dolls and the council unless you're going very slowly...which then defeats the purpose of trying to farm him. If you're playing offline, it's not quite as bad and you can go with less gear, but that's because the map never changes.
@@Neonmirrorblack Mephisto as a sorc is by far the easiest boss in the entire game. Ever heard about moat tricking? You literally need nothing for it. And a quest bugged Andariel drops pretty decent considering how fast it is to get to her and kill her
2000 meph kills, 1000 and about 300 diablo kills and 300 Baal kills. Idk how many cow levels. No shaco and no titans. Lots of other good stuff, war Travs, 2 oculus, 2xJah, several Andy heads, an eye, 1 max rolled cold Jew and a lightning Jew etc. Damn you shaco.
Found 2 in one week. First one from a leaper pack on my way to ancient tunnel. Second one I believe from Diablo or Meph. Was less excited then the first time I found it, so can't remember correctly. Funny how that works :)
Hell andariel is much faster then nightmare baal.. You don't have to sit through the waves of trash. Also when you kill andariel all of the room gets cleared and everything in there has decent odds to drop it. Nightmare baal is easier but much slower.
So much wrong in this video. Hell Andy (quest bugged) and Meph are both about 3 times more likely to drop it than Cow King, and almost twice as likely as NM Baal, not to mention significantly faster than both.
Yea, I'm not saying the cow king is the best run, but it is a decent run, It wouldn't be my first choice, but it is a choice for those who may get bored of their usual routes.
What happens to me, that I have noticed, I do not get drops from bosses, always random mobs on way to the boss that I kill. Today was on way to Hell Andy and got first UM Rune drop in the room by the stairs at Andy's level. Got nothing from Andy, but still success.
I just got two shakos yesterday... One off of H Meph, other off of H Andy. Honestly, if you want a specific item just play the game. Can't go wrong with andy for jewelery and meph for everything else tho.
The majority if shakos I've found were in off andy and meph, and off nilathak before I believe. I've heard many ppl talk about the Meph moat trick for blizzard sorcs but nobody mentioning the andy door trick for blizzard sorcs. U just clear the catacombs level 4 room without opening the door, then tele to andy and then have her follow u and walk down to the door then tele behind the door and just start blizzard storming the door over and over until you see her death fire everywhere and the sounds etc then open door and claim loot. Ez gg good luck folks 👍
In D2R it's cows or andariel. Cause they will give you a lot of all game best drops besides shako. Remember that now you can kill cow king and have the level opened. So it is rly quick run now, that gives you runes, diamonds, bases for runewords etc.
for the most part I am stating the drop rate chance for the base item type. The chance for it to roll magic/unique/rare/set of course is subject to magic-find percentage, but totally RNG, the type of monster you're killing doesn't effect the drop chance of a specific unique/set etc, but just the base item type for that set/unique (etc).
It's an energy shield, frozen orb sorc. Basically you max orb, get coldmastery to -135 (so most mobs will have the max of -100 rez). Then you max warmth, telekinesis and energy shield and equipment some items with flat physical and magic damage reduction of top of the usual max rez and DR%. You can go for maxblock if you want and then devide the rest of you points so that you have about 500 HP and all the rest into energy. (2k+ mana is a must). An example: you take 3000 damage. About 80% of it will go to mana (2400) With max telekinesis, that gets reduced to 75%, so you loose 1800 mana. 600 DMG go to your health, but get reduced by you DMG reduction % and then you flat DMG reduction. So If you take that 600 DMG hit with 75% elemental rez and 50 flat magic DMG reduction you would take 100dmg (to 150 with %red and -50 from flat). Making you life drop by 100 health when you would have taken 700 DMG without energy shield. You run insight merc and max warmth to replenish your mana almost instantly. Mana burn champions are a pain in the ass though. The interesting part is this: if you take 1000 DMG with the same setup, you take 50 DMG before your flat DMG reduction, which means you take 0dmg to your health. every hit below 1000 DMG simply does no DMG to you at all, as long as you have mana.
This is the ONLY item in the game where people call it "Shako" as the normal (white) item named instead of "Harlequin Crest". It bothered me 20 years ago (OCD), it still kinda does now. I guess it's a difficult item to abbreviate as "HC" as it would be confused with "Hardcore".
I'm on d2r and doing it with the blizzard sorc. Kinda stuck on act 5 because all the cold immune monsters. Just started farming bishobosh, rag and grendle... tis a decent run with clear time in under 5 mins for all 3
Blizzard sorc also does great on meph regardless of player setting but can be a bit too exciting sometimes if you aggro a bosspack of vampires behind the throne.
@@PetarPetrov-89 is it better than fire? I dropped 2 5/5 fire facets and put them in my ocy and shako, so i just stuck with fireball and frozen orb for fire immunes. I have never played cold sorc yet. Maybe I should, yah?
@@scottlucidi6476 I am not really sure but Blizzard is really strong, I have relatively shit gear (nothing close to best in slot) and and I am farming him players 7. It just sucks keeping my merc alive sometimes
Hey dude i am wondering what is your sorc full gear ? I see wizzy , shakoo , spirit monarch , gladiator's bane ! What is the rest? I see the mobs doesnt do any damage to you , also what are your resistances and life /mana? Are u max block?
portal restriction after killing cow king wasn't a bug. it was purely intended to prevent players from farming cow king who had the best drop rate at it's time back then. lol devs can't even remember their own decisions.
If your farm the bosses there is a chance that they drop essences, if you craft those together you get a respec, other than that you got 3 x times respec after act 1 quest 1
What is the best bet for trying to find a shako, but also finding other stuff on the way. I would rather farm with a lower chance for shako, but it still be worth it if at the end of the day i have items that i could trade with.
You're telling me that it was a bug that killing the couching prevented you from opening the portal again and the bug lasted twenty years and they never fixed it?
really depends on what your doing. If you want to get rich quick by farming Meph and AT till your eyes bleed then Bliz sorc is the way to go. if you want to have some fun and clear the game pretty easy I'm thinking Necro is the winner; CE is probably the most broken spell in the game. Trapsin and Hammerdin are in contention though as they are pretty decent with minimal gear. Everything else is too gear hungry for my taste.
I always get my Shakos from Andariel. Played Diablo first when it came out and always returned to it up to this day. Never EVER found Shako anywhere else. So I call BS on these numbers.
dangerous if you're a sorc sure, they're glass cannons afteral. can pack a mean punch but cannot take one. however my barb can take anything without any problems :D
Farmed pindle keys baal diablo meph travincal andy 300mf in hell for 2 days cant find any decent gear or charms. Do i miss something ? Should i focus more on doing one thing only ?
Just to clarify, I see some comments in regards to farming Nightmare Mephisto, to my knowledge Shako is an elite item and does not drop on nightmare aside from a few high level enemies like Baal (not sure about Nihlatak). Am I wrong?
Basically they can only drop items up to their monster level, so if the monster level is only 50, they cannot drop a level 65 item. I'm unsure of this applies to runes. I only ever dropped HR off of trash mobs tbh
Fun fact harlequin Crest is in Diablo 1 -3 armor , +2 to all attributes , -1 damage from enemies , +7 to hit chance and +7 to magic. Nice early game cap but terrible armor. They gave it major buffed it Diablo 2 and Diablo 3.
lol Writs leg....Its Wirts leg, also the reason ppl farm in nightmare for certain stuff is because of the item level. the higher the monster the more diverse the item level can be drastically reducing your chances of finding certain items.so many people thathave only played diablo 3 are in for a big surprise when a hell baal is dropping level 15 items instead of them used to mobs and bosses dropping items basically at your max level like in d3
if you do mephisto hell runs do them without mercenary bc he/she will trigger the council almost every time. if you teleport in "alone" that wont happen that often.
2:37 - Wow, as a hardcore player seeing you burst all those popper monsters that damage you when they die right on top of you, I had a mini heart attack. :O
1st pure mf run I found a windforce in the ancient tunnels, second run found a shako off hell Mephisto. Haven't found anything else really valuable since
got all the ucky gone lol. I use a Harmony for my bowazon cause im not that hardcore to farm thousands of times the runes for the better bow or to farm the windforce. IF ONE DAY i get lucky just as you did, im ok. Other than that, im too old to farm. Life time is important , lol!
Funny I was trying to find one with 350 MF. Hundreds of runs, never found one... Yesterday while starting hell with my Jav zon and 0 % MF, Griswold decides to troll me and drops a unique shako.. I was just trying to save cain for free identifies lol.. funny how RNG loves to troll.
Yea, Pindle strait up could be good in single player, tho - on Bnet, you get limited on how fast you can create games, so I sort have that idea factored into mind when I chose the runs in the vid.
@@OldSchoolGameSnob in resurrected you won’t get timed out for making to many games so it will for sure be one of the fastest ways to grind most of those rare uniques.
@@OldSchoolGameSnob there is no realmtime down anymore you can create as many games as you want, shenk/pindle is my go to this is going to bring in loot faster than it was possible 20 years ago
Harlequin crest - I would think it's named from the movie / comic - Batman. Joker's girlfriend. (Harley Quinn). They have alot of item name's like this. Ali Baba sword ect... can anyone else think of items with names that refer to real things?
Interesting. I'm getting a sense that you are specialize or expertise in finding specific rare/unique items that people may have a hard time finding. Which you are giving the people some advice on how to target/find these items without spending too much time in other areas. This is good for the newcomers and a quick review for the vets!👏🏽
thanks man! Yea, I sort of hope to put together some good run ideas, based on, clear time, relative safety and chance to drop items of a particular type. Hopefully some folks find it helpful!
I found my first shako! Always when you aren't looking for anything... The stats on this item are sick.
With a sorceress I would do hell mephisto runs (with moat trick if gear is too bad to risk normal confrontation). In addition to shako he can drop most of the other important items and it takes much less time to reach him.
What is moat trick? Can you explain it for me please
u go and aggro him and than go backwards across that little bit of water and stand back. He won’t cross that and u can stay back and do damage without being hurt
@@georgemartinovic661 Thanks for explaining. Appreciate yas
Does moat trick work with orb? I'm on Switch controller version so orb aims better than Blizzard and im mostly single player so i need to be orb+ fireball to solo the game
@@LordBattleSmurf the range is shorter so its abit tricky, but should work, i used to do it on the "left" side of the center. Also, i highly recommend going orb+firewall instead. it does waaaay more damage than fireball. Try it, you'll thank me later.
Just fyi, your frozen orb deals the most damage at the point of explosion. If you take a couple steps back and make the orb explode on Baal, you will find that it does way more damage :)
This man speaks truth!
Yeah this was kinda hard to watch. Could kill baal in half the time casting orb correctly
came here to say this, thanks mate
Gold info.
Whenever I want a shako I just run around act 1 hell stoney field to outer cloister and just Kill all the packs since they are all perfect lvl for dropping shako.. it never fails I will find one faster this way than any other way...finding items in d2 is all about monster lvl and drop tables
and about getting lucky
I agree with this method. Definitely faster and I’d prefer doing this to Baal or Meph runs
I found my only shako ever in mosulem
@@plumtree8713 D3 can’t hold a candle to D2…I don’t know why but in D2 there was a thrill to finding loot but in D3 it was all just … eh…
I can’t explain it but they messed with the formula and it just didn’t feel right.
Finding that only shako in the mausoleum probably felt great. I can remember loads of moments like that in D2 but only one in D3…finding calamity on my DH before the game was made much easier.
@@markgowanlock8544 bro I 100% feel exactly the same. Played only one character on d3.. a paladin and got to end game and hated/abhorred the game. D2 rules
Nice vid but for anyone that's planning on playing an orb sorc, if you see how long it took to kill Griswold and Baal, that's because he didn't line up correctly, you want the orb to detonate inside the boss, not behind it
I was thinking that.. it lowkey annoyed me so much, haha.
^ exactly. I find with Blizzard it's best to click near the mob you want to kill rather than namelock on them. For whatever reason it seems to hit more than when it's namelocked.
Glwt 🤭🤣 the damage isn't done by the orb but by the shards so just passed is my sweet spot for orbs
I think the best way to get a shako is by farming hell Andarial/Mephisto. Or any high level area that you can clear with decent speed, like ancient tunnels, the pit, chaos or world stone keep. Cannot wait to get one on D2R...
Lol u just mentioned almost every farmspot that exists :D
Honor Neun yes but the other usual farm spots that he has listed drops the other uniques that you either want or don't want and in which case you are looking for something more specific than another Druid mallet for example or an unique ring that is not a SoJ. Shako has always eluded me from the usual farm spots but not in Cows and Griswald in Tristam Nightmare more than Hell difficulty. D2 has always been that ARPG game to have a reason to lower the difficulty for many reasons when hunting or magic finding specific unique items. Don't get too attached to playing Hell Mode all the time😉.
@@geois4u33 worst advice ever. only farm in hell mode. Lvl 85 areas, chaos, baal, pindle, shenk, eldritch, maybe travi and nihi
@@robertkaszti6103 problem with that, is as the ilvl goes up so does the mlvl. In other words the loot table expands with higher difficulty, “polluting” the potential drop. If one is after a specific item, it’s best to reduce the loot table by lowering the difficulty.
Bugged andy would be dropping more rings and amus than shako. Your best bet would be chaos runs, ancient tunnels, pits.
With frozen orb u want to hit your enemies with the end of the flying ball, so that it explodes on target. This way your clearing speed will reduce a lot. Just saying 😅
Glwt 🤭shooting just past allows for more exposure and the ball releases more shards.. so given the radial spread just passed gives the max damage per orb..just saying 🤫😏
I found my first shako ever from an armor rack while doing countess runs XD
wow that's some good rng for ya
I been finding alot of good items on those racks myself. Always worth a look
Travincal 100 def
Finally found my first sol to make insight yesterday doing count. (Haven't played in 15+ years) put the runes in a war fork. Pissed I went to arcane, opened the first chest i saw and a sol came out. RNJesus had my back. Moral of the story, open shit lol.
I found a Tal Ammy on a random normal cow. Not sure how lucky that is
I like these short but informative videos on where items are most likely to drop. I wish we had these years back!
It’s amazing but ruins the game imo
We had all this info available to us. Ya just had to read
Arreatsummit
Source on killing the Cow King and not being able to make portal was a bug? Haven't herd that before.
It completed a hidden quest and if you completed it you couldnt create anymore, it wasnt a bug. If you completed the quest the Cow King dropped "Stamina Potions / Milk Bottles", thats how you knew someome created the game who didnt have the quest completed and now you also couldnt create cow games anymore.
banger of a pun
Havent herd this before either its udderly ridiculous
Yes we can kill King now in game and remake.
I found 4 so far.
1 from NM Baal
2 from Hell Meph
1 from a chest in hell ancient tunnels
For Orb sorc, its best cast your orb, which takes over 2 seconds. While its plowing through enemies, spam static field. This works best if you have more than 1 point in SF... you want to make the field as wide as possible. You will MELT through cows. Typically 1 orb and 3 casts of static if you have some decent gear.
Why have you put a sol rune in it? :S
I came for this comment right here
Ive never found one in how ever many years!! Theres a learning curve for new players. You haven't played a game like this before. I tend to buy one for around UM later in the season ✌️
Best place to find Shako: Hell Bosses.
Not really. It depends on how fast you can kill. Most people aren't going to be able to speed through Hell Baal (especially as a Sorceress with all of the immunes) until they already have the gear they would want to farm for in the first place. Highest drop chance doesn't mean most chances in the same amount of time.
@@Neonmirrorblack exactly my thoughts. When trying to farm these items, the player probably doesn't have the stuff to run hell or doesn't have the ability to trade for it.
@@Neonmirrorblack Well there are 2 other bosses to farm that require no gear and are easy to find and kill as a sorc. Andariel and Mephisto
@@LEK Requires no gear? Is that a joke? Not only does Andariel have a terrible drop rate solo, Hell Mephisto requires *some* decent gear to not get demolished by stygian dolls and the council unless you're going very slowly...which then defeats the purpose of trying to farm him.
If you're playing offline, it's not quite as bad and you can go with less gear, but that's because the map never changes.
@@Neonmirrorblack Mephisto as a sorc is by far the easiest boss in the entire game. Ever heard about moat tricking? You literally need nothing for it.
And a quest bugged Andariel drops pretty decent considering how fast it is to get to her and kill her
I got an SOJ yesterday off the special carver guarding the tristram portal but no shako yet lol
I got a shako off that guy. But nothing from bosses 😢
2000 meph kills, 1000 and about 300 diablo kills and 300 Baal kills. Idk how many cow levels. No shaco and no titans. Lots of other good stuff, war Travs, 2 oculus, 2xJah, several Andy heads, an eye, 1 max rolled cold Jew and a lightning Jew etc. Damn you shaco.
Nice vid! Watching you frozen orb through Griswald like that was super painful though!
Found 2 in one week.
First one from a leaper pack on my way to ancient tunnel.
Second one I believe from Diablo or Meph. Was less excited then the first time I found it, so can't remember correctly. Funny how that works :)
Hell andariel is much faster then nightmare baal..
You don't have to sit through the waves of trash.
Also when you kill andariel all of the room gets cleared and everything in there has decent odds to drop it.
Nightmare baal is easier but much slower.
These are all wrong.... Cow king has a 1:8923 chance to drop with 1 player and 0 mf in 1.13. The best via drop calculator is Hell Mephisto at 1:1841
yeah I was going to say the same thing. now sure where he got his numbers but its def not that easy.. drop calc shows the same numbers
Nice tips, can't wait to kill cow king on D2R (:
Definitely! This is gunna be the longest week ever... I feel like Cartman right now waiting on the Nintendo Wii :D ... 'cmonnn!
@@OldSchoolGameSnob anyone else booked holidays to play it... I may have a week off...
@@OldSchoolGameSnob DO NOT FREEZE YOURSELF!
So much wrong in this video.
Hell Andy (quest bugged) and Meph are both about 3 times more likely to drop it than Cow King, and almost twice as likely as NM Baal, not to mention significantly faster than both.
Yea, I'm not saying the cow king is the best run, but it is a decent run, It wouldn't be my first choice, but it is a choice for those who may get bored of their usual routes.
@zenji does andy bug exist in multiplayer too?
@@MrJizzijazz Yes, and it still worked on the last day of Beta.
Man, you're saying cow king was a bug, not design? All these years. What was Blizz doing
Nothing
Literally nothing besides resetting ladders.
@@travis718 and harassing female employees.
@@Euphoria35 That one is lost on me I don't keep up. What's that all about?
@@travis718 Google Blizzard employees getting fired. They were harassing female employees for years
Good videos, good knowledge, clear and concise = my sub. Can't wait for Resurrected!
I got 2 shako on December, first drop from Andariel Hell Mode & second drop from Diablo Hell Mode. I got 4 Tal Rasha helmet
In total I got 4 Shako. The last one drop from Mephisto this evening
What happens to me, that I have noticed, I do not get drops from bosses, always random mobs on way to the boss that I kill. Today was on way to Hell Andy and got first UM Rune drop in the room by the stairs at Andy's level. Got nothing from Andy, but still success.
I just got two shakos yesterday... One off of H Meph, other off of H Andy. Honestly, if you want a specific item just play the game. Can't go wrong with andy for jewelery and meph for everything else tho.
with 300%MF
Mephisto (q) - mephisto (H) Durance of Hate Level 3 1:518
Diablo (q) - diablo (H) The Chaos Sanctuary 1:532
Baal (q) - baalcrab (H) The Worldstone Chamber 1:537
Baal (q) - baalcrab (NM) The Worldstone Chamber 1:599
Andariel (q) - andariel (H) Catacombs Level 4 1:771
Andariel - andariel (H) Catacombs Level 4 1:771
Mephisto - mephisto (H) Durance of Hate Level 3 1:781
Diablo - diablo (H) The Chaos Sanctuary 1:803
Baal - baalcrab (H) The Worldstone Chamber 1:810
Baal - baalcrab (NM) The Worldstone Chamber 1:906
The majority if shakos I've found were in off andy and meph, and off nilathak before I believe. I've heard many ppl talk about the Meph moat trick for blizzard sorcs but nobody mentioning the andy door trick for blizzard sorcs.
U just clear the catacombs level 4 room without opening the door, then tele to andy and then have her follow u and walk down to the door then tele behind the door and just start blizzard storming the door over and over until you see her death fire everywhere and the sounds etc then open door and claim loot. Ez gg good luck folks 👍
Lol I'm playing for 20 years and never heard of this. Thanks!
In D2R it's cows or andariel. Cause they will give you a lot of all game best drops besides shako. Remember that now you can kill cow king and have the level opened. So it is rly quick run now, that gives you runes, diamonds, bases for runewords etc.
TY I forgot about cowking as I never kill. What build is that sorc ?. I see u only cast orb and es.
So, i Diablo Rezurected when you kill the Cow King you can open the red portal again? oO?
Yes, you will be able to farm the Cow King :)
@@FalioV WOW :) Nice
I got my Shako HC in hell Canyon of the Magi map from one of the random boss packs. Was just doing the act 2 quests on my may to Duriel...
Where are you getting these drop rates from? I'm checking them on silopen and getting different rates from everything you stated in this video.
for the most part I am stating the drop rate chance for the base item type. The chance for it to roll magic/unique/rare/set of course is subject to magic-find percentage, but totally RNG, the type of monster you're killing doesn't effect the drop chance of a specific unique/set etc, but just the base item type for that set/unique (etc).
I'm curious too! What's a good source to find drop rates?
Silospen is quite broken and gives wrong answers. The German drop calc is said to be better.
Sorry a bit hard to understand, so you can get it off nightmare griswald/cowking or was that only in hell ?
what do you suggest your magic find percentage should be good enough to drop shako against nm baal?
300% is a good start.
that is one of the best videos of farming in d2, props
Bro you have the best video voice ever lol. Great Video and I am LOVING Resurrected it's a nice remake to the original which I also love
According to drops calculators, mephisto 1:781, cow king 1:2564
How much MF % do I need to find a server that’s stable? I’m on PS5
Nice vid mate ! What build are u using here?Any guide?Thx !
It's an energy shield, frozen orb sorc.
Basically you max orb, get coldmastery to -135 (so most mobs will have the max of -100 rez). Then you max warmth, telekinesis and energy shield and equipment some items with flat physical and magic damage reduction of top of the usual max rez and DR%.
You can go for maxblock if you want and then devide the rest of you points so that you have about 500 HP and all the rest into energy. (2k+ mana is a must).
An example: you take 3000 damage. About 80% of it will go to mana (2400) With max telekinesis, that gets reduced to 75%, so you loose 1800 mana.
600 DMG go to your health, but get reduced by you DMG reduction % and then you flat DMG reduction.
So If you take that 600 DMG hit with 75% elemental rez and 50 flat magic DMG reduction you would take 100dmg (to 150 with %red and -50 from flat).
Making you life drop by 100 health when you would have taken 700 DMG without energy shield.
You run insight merc and max warmth to replenish your mana almost instantly.
Mana burn champions are a pain in the ass though.
The interesting part is this: if you take 1000 DMG with the same setup, you take 50 DMG before your flat DMG reduction, which means you take 0dmg to your health. every hit below 1000 DMG simply does no DMG to you at all, as long as you have mana.
I see the glad bane and the dam redux in the shako... is that the energy ball sorc of legend?
This is the ONLY item in the game where people call it "Shako" as the normal (white) item named instead of "Harlequin Crest". It bothered me 20 years ago (OCD), it still kinda does now. I guess it's a difficult item to abbreviate as "HC" as it would be confused with "Hardcore".
Nobody cares about any normal shako item and it’s the same design everyone knows what shako is and if you don’t you will it’s Diablo culture basically
@@mattmcg6022 wow. You have OCD, too.
Lol if only the community gave a shit about your OCD, but to the rest of us there is only ONE Shako.
Awesome video, very concise!
I'm on d2r and doing it with the blizzard sorc. Kinda stuck on act 5 because all the cold immune monsters. Just started farming bishobosh, rag and grendle... tis a decent run with clear time in under 5 mins for all 3
Frozen orb is the best when you set it right when it explodes
Hell Mephisto drops this item regularly. Use fire sorc and runs are quick.
Blizzard sorc also does great on meph regardless of player setting but can be a bit too exciting sometimes if you aggro a bosspack of vampires behind the throne.
@@Flakzor123 nice. yah!
I agree, this is the way. I farm him with blizz sorc but yea
@@PetarPetrov-89 is it better than fire? I dropped 2 5/5 fire facets and put them in my ocy and shako, so i just stuck with fireball and frozen orb for fire immunes. I have never played cold sorc yet. Maybe I should, yah?
@@scottlucidi6476 I am not really sure but Blizzard is really strong, I have relatively shit gear (nothing close to best in slot) and and I am farming him players 7. It just sucks keeping my merc alive sometimes
Was that an SOJ you got off Baal and failed to acknowledge it?
Hey dude i am wondering what is your sorc full gear ? I see wizzy , shakoo , spirit monarch , gladiator's bane ! What is the rest? I see the mobs doesnt do any damage to you , also what are your resistances and life /mana? Are u max block?
portal restriction after killing cow king wasn't a bug. it was purely intended to prevent players from farming cow king who had the best drop rate at it's time back then.
lol devs can't even remember their own decisions.
Anyone know if there will be a limit as to how many times you can respec your talent points once D2 Resurrected is released?
If your farm the bosses there is a chance that they drop essences, if you craft those together you get a respec, other than that you got 3 x times respec after act 1 quest 1
I found two from just killing overworld monsters in Black Marsh, Act 1. My guess is that its nice to just kill any density mobs if you have high MF.
Got mine right out side the cold plains way point off a shaman on hell. First SOJ off my first Andriel kill on night mare.
What is the best bet for trying to find a shako, but also finding other stuff on the way. I would rather farm with a lower chance for shako, but it still be worth it if at the end of the day i have items that i could trade with.
You're telling me that it was a bug that killing the couching prevented you from opening the portal again and the bug lasted twenty years and they never fixed it?
I can never reach my portal while couching need longer arms. FML
Lol Derek's fan base is everywhere.
He is usually in the jungle or as support, he will find you with his clone and be annoying
What class do I run in D2R boiz?
javazon
Necro - No other choice
All the classes.
really depends on what your doing. If you want to get rich quick by farming Meph and AT till your eyes bleed then Bliz sorc is the way to go. if you want to have some fun and clear the game pretty easy I'm thinking Necro is the winner; CE is probably the most broken spell in the game. Trapsin and Hammerdin are in contention though as they are pretty decent with minimal gear. Everything else is too gear hungry for my taste.
Build a gold find barb once you get some decent mf gear and gamble for rare gg circlets. Profit.
I always get my Shakos from Andariel.
Played Diablo first when it came out and always returned to it up to this day. Never EVER found Shako anywhere else.
So I call BS on these numbers.
How do you know Cow King has 1/95 chance to drop Shako base item? Is there a DB of possible monster drops?
Sorc hell meph same as 20 yr ago, 🥱
Where do you check the chances of finding an specific item? Thx in advance
Can you post the link to back up these stats? Where did you get the data from?
dropcalc.silospen.com/item.php
I found 2 in the AT within a few days. That’s my go to anymore. Sometimes I get junk but when a unique drops it’s always high-tier item.
AT?
@@Its_Zeally ancient tunnels
dangerous if you're a sorc sure, they're glass cannons afteral. can pack a mean punch but cannot take one.
however my barb can take anything without any problems :D
I picked up a Gray 2 socket Shako today random drop in arcane sanctuary wasn't sure what to do with it so I sold it
Farmed pindle keys baal diablo meph travincal andy 300mf in hell for 2 days cant find any decent gear or charms. Do i miss something ? Should i focus more on doing one thing only ?
ok so if its character level than it doesn't matter between hell and nightmare
Andy Hell is best though ?
i found hc and maras in the same hell mausoleum run the other day. it was my first shako drop in d2r too. lucky
Just to clarify, I see some comments in regards to farming Nightmare Mephisto, to my knowledge Shako is an elite item and does not drop on nightmare aside from a few high level enemies like Baal (not sure about Nihlatak). Am I wrong?
Mephisto in Hell can drop it, but not in nightmare. In nightmare, only Baal and Nihlathak can drop it.
Basically they can only drop items up to their monster level, so if the monster level is only 50, they cannot drop a level 65 item. I'm unsure of this applies to runes. I only ever dropped HR off of trash mobs tbh
Ive found at least three of them.
Im looking for Tal Armor for months.
Im slowley giving up
Fun fact harlequin Crest is in Diablo 1 -3 armor , +2 to all attributes , -1 damage from enemies , +7 to hit chance and +7 to magic. Nice early game cap but terrible armor. They gave it major buffed it Diablo 2 and Diablo 3.
lol Writs leg....Its Wirts leg, also the reason ppl farm in nightmare for certain stuff is because of the item level. the higher the monster the more diverse the item level can be drastically reducing your chances of finding certain items.so many people thathave only played diablo 3 are in for a big surprise when a hell baal is dropping level 15 items instead of them used to mobs and bosses dropping items basically at your max level like in d3
Good call. So far I found one from hell Diablo. Found 2 ( one ethereal 😢) in the pits and my last one was from nightmare Baal.
I got mine at Catacombs 3 from a mob when I was on my way to Andariel.
Why do you have a Sol rune in your shako?
Quest bugged andy is one of the best places as well
This is exactly what I plan on doing. Bugged NM Andy runs until I bleed lol
if you do mephisto hell runs do them without mercenary bc he/she will trigger the council almost every time. if you teleport in "alone" that wont happen that often.
that's an excellent tip.
Found one in forgotton tower, one from meph
Andariel and Meph are best odds by far.
Got both my drops from them!
True, but just killing bosses over and over and over and over and over again is boring... much more enjoyable to switch to different areas.
2:37 - Wow, as a hardcore player seeing you burst all those popper monsters that damage you when they die right on top of you, I had a mini heart attack. :O
the cow level was not fixed . just cleared it and the leg is gone pissed me off
Get another leg
1st pure mf run I found a windforce in the ancient tunnels, second run found a shako off hell Mephisto. Haven't found anything else really valuable since
got all the ucky gone lol. I use a Harmony for my bowazon cause im not that hardcore to farm thousands of times the runes for the better bow or to farm the windforce.
IF ONE DAY i get lucky just as you did, im ok. Other than that, im too old to farm. Life time is important , lol!
Found my first last weekend at the doorstep of the Chaos Sanctuary..Woohoo!
You have the most peaceful voice man.
Funny I was trying to find one with 350 MF. Hundreds of runs, never found one... Yesterday while starting hell with my Jav zon and 0 % MF, Griswold decides to troll me and drops a unique shako.. I was just trying to save cain for free identifies lol.. funny how RNG loves to troll.
How do I get more Wirt's leg?
I got two im a few games apart dropped outside cathedral on my way to pit
Can you tell me one for Arm of king Leoric
Pindle/bugged Andariel or mote trick Mephisto. I prefer pindle as I can easily get sub 20 second runs.
Meph can drop a huge amount of stuff
Yea, Pindle strait up could be good in single player, tho - on Bnet, you get limited on how fast you can create games, so I sort have that idea factored into mind when I chose the runs in the vid.
@@OldSchoolGameSnob in resurrected you won’t get timed out for making to many games so it will for sure be one of the fastest ways to grind most of those rare uniques.
@@OldSchoolGameSnob there is no realmtime down anymore you can create as many games as you want, shenk/pindle is my go to this is going to bring in loot faster than it was possible 20 years ago
@@OldSchoolGameSnob This is not a thing in D2R anymore, so pindle might be the fastest way-
Found my shako was years ago on pc haven’t got it in d2r yet but it was nm baal
Found my shako today from a random white ghoul in cata 2.
Killed it by mistake while I was heading to Andariel
Cows in Nightmare (A lvl 64) is my favorite place to farm before going into Hell. Personally hate teleporting to Mephisto undergeared.
if feel ya on that. im playing with 2 accounts so i can port down with FULL bo *hardcore*
you can cheese Meph with Blizz Sorc, killing him from distance
Harlequin crest - I would think it's named from the movie / comic - Batman. Joker's girlfriend. (Harley Quinn). They have alot of item name's like this. Ali Baba sword ect... can anyone else think of items with names that refer to real things?
how come you dont tell us what difficulty??
Juicy tips, pld alot ...didnt know, but i do use silospen dropcalc and i imagine the info will be there as well if i specifically search for it. 🤗😉
I found a h.c. shako this weekend first 5 mins in black marsh. is that rare?
Interesting. I'm getting a sense that you are specialize or expertise in finding specific rare/unique items that people may have a hard time finding. Which you are giving the people some advice on how to target/find these items without spending too much time in other areas. This is good for the newcomers and a quick review for the vets!👏🏽
thanks man! Yea, I sort of hope to put together some good run ideas, based on, clear time, relative safety and chance to drop items of a particular type. Hopefully some folks find it helpful!
where do u get all your probabilities from?
1 in 100 etc
Probably blizz web, it makes sense for it to be at 1% blizz never put very rare items above 3%