Farmed Mephisto hell around 1000 times, didnt get a shako. Watched your video to see if i was doing the right thing and thought, cool i'm doing the right thing. Started up the game, did 7 Mephisto runs and it droppped :) :) :)
You're totally right Phil, that's how the probability goes. When there is a larger universe of options possible to get, the chances to get any single one of them goes down. For example, if you want to get heads out of an universe of options of {heads, tails} that's 1 out of 2 = 50% = 0.5, but if you want to get a 6 out of a six headed dice, that'd be 1 out of a universe of options of {1,2,3,4,5,6}, which translates to 1 out of 6 = 16% = 0.16.
What i do for my 1st shako is either farm Meph and Andy in hell or when im bored of that i farm Den of Evil, Bishibosh, Rakanishu, Tristram, Dark Wood, Black Marsh and Tower. Since they added Underground passage lvl2 as a lvl 85 area I'd probably just farm that on my way from stony field to dark wood
Great vids. Just found your channel after coming back to D2R last week. My lightning sorc is stuck in A3 Hell with no more respecs, but I am pressing onward. Looking forward to the grind
I did some 200 Andariel runs in hopes of getting it and nothing, got pretty tired and gave up. I went to tristram to get a leg to do some cows and hit the bed, I on accident hit a few mobs and a shako dropped. I was happy and sad at the same time cos it dropped when I gave up on it. So I think you need to truly give up on an item in order for it to drop :D
get a merc with kelpie snare or that other -50% slow polearm and mephisto/andariel are super slow (also cast time is slowed) and no danger anymore, especially early on very good
I read that as well. You keep it as a normal item so your merc can’t kill dolls while you’re teleporting to Mephisto. It’s just for like you said the slow rate.
I found my first shako when farming bases with nearly 0 mf (opening the super chest in the pit), and now I have 300+ mf for ages and yet to see another unique shako LOL
I got one from Andy and one from arcane sanctuary, can't remember where I got the other one, I'm having great lucky by my standards, this ladder I've found ohm jah and 4x ist, 2nd jah in over 10k hours between d2 and d2r.
In my 17 years playing the game (on and off) I’ve found 2 shako’s. One of which was eth. But I’ve found a total of 5 mang-songs between all my accounts 😂
Be carefull with these dropcalculators and go with ingame experience instead. However, there is no doubt that Andariel is the safest, fastest and easiest way to obtain a shako. Once i did 2000 andy runs for Soj farming with about 350 MF and got not less than 17 shakos during those runs...took me about two months to complete. Both Baal and Meph are also, statistically, good places, but they are far away from wps and the road to them is very dangerous for HC players. If you need Gheeds, Viperskin and Shako ...you go Andy :)
@ZyklonBeast i know its old but the sweet spot for mf is 350. do not buy these youtubers that say "i ran xxxxxx for 12 hours with 24802482480 MF and this is what i found". What you want is a balance of good dps with decent mf. 350 is the sweet spot for that, you do high damage so you clear it fast and your mf is at a decent level. above 350, there is actually diminishing returns. For instance, you will actually see a higher frequency of tiers other than unique in drops meaning you have less chance of dropping the unique despite having more mf. If you want more uniques, 350 mf is the way to go because you get good balance of damage + speed and less frequent bad magic loot. Another bonus is more socket bases will drop the lower ur mf is (obviously if you are socket base hunting, you would use 0 mf. but sometimes its nice when ur mf running and a good socket base drops "i'll save that for later" kind of deal)
When D2R launched, I found one shako from Meph and one from Cows. On ladder, I found a whole bunch of shakos from everywhere. ALL BLUE AND YELLOW SHAKOS!!!🤬
enjoy all your videos brother, question, i see a Maltese cross on your shirt alot... paid or volunteer ? either way thank you for your service brother... i had to quit being a volunteer because of a back injury... i sure do miss running into a burning building.
After years spent playing online, i started to play offline last week. First charater, first time in hell, first elite in spider cavern dropped the giddbin and the shako. I wasn't so exicted since i made my first enigma.
Thank you for your videos, especially the one about why you aren't finding tons of special items. They help casual gamers who aren't really a part of the "culture" of gaming . For some reason, I seem to have the magic touch with Shakos (I've found I think five so far) but I'm still wanting a H-Crest for my Hammerdin.
That’s cool that your grandson got you into the game. I’ve been playing since it came out and maybe I’ll play with my kids when they get older. Lvl 85 area is an area with the highest monster level meaning that any item in the game can drop. These are the best areas to farm if you are looking for the rarest gear like Griffons.
Another great vid man thank you Do you have any gambling guide vids? Been trying to gamble a maras with my lvl 88 sorc So far like 15 million in gold and nothing (single player)
I’ve been playing since it dropped on console and I never found a shako. when ladder started 2 weeks in I found 3 in a day. 2 from Andy one from meph. I couldn’t believe it.
I just watched your video and said to myself - Oh well... I still don't have shako, would be good to farm Mephisto later, got only 145% of MF and went to halls of pain just to get waypoint and try get key from Nihlathak and just dropped SHAKO from normal monster as 78 LVL Hammerdin. I was farming items as sorceress for ages and almost never dropped anything worth. But as Palladin always I had luck, just 2 days ago dropped CHAM rune from normal monster in the jungle, now SHAKO, just wow. Hammerdin is so lucky.
Yeah 500 runs on both Mephisto and Andariel and I finally got my Shako off of an Armor Rack in Lower Kurast. The game knows what you're looking for and it almost never gives it to you.
If you just starting the game much easier to find a 3 socket armor than 4. So having 3 perfect topaz armor is a great start on normal and nightmare imo
@@skroozscrungus6738 Lem are gold find... Ist for magic find would be a massive waste in anything besides a weapon that early on.... Even then, save the ist to trade.
Mephitso is the best for Shaco and right outside the door on act 4 the one where u could dupe money which I assume is patched only item I haven't found is the blue kraken shield in this game from baal after 2k runs guarantee if you run out of act 4 kill all the Amazon people and the mini boss you'll get it
I've been playing sp for about a year. My paladin is level 95 . I've found two jah, a ber, two vex and an ohm, death fathom, 15% Nightwing, 15%blizz ormus, mara, full tals, etc, but haven't found a shako. I'm still wearing a 3ptopaz helm because all the tarnhelms I've found are 30% or less. So tell me more about how to find a shako...
Pallys put one point into charge and vigor and if your poor find some 20-40%+ run/ walks and a stealth helped me get around until was able to start running trav and chaos. Have a rejuve on hand incase you charge into trouble...
I spent an hour and half farming coldcrow for a gul early game to get 100mf and just rocked that until I could build more without losing anymore kill speed
one of you streamers needs to do a video about what happens come the end of ladder.. ie what happens to the toons you made? can they be transferred or are they deleted? what about the gear? bliz says that you can use the new ladder runewords.. does that mean we can keep the ones we make? or we can just make them outside ladder after its over? and generally what happens, timings and whatnot.. THANKS for all the content
The chars will become non-ladder chars in your account just like the others. The items will be in a shared stash, but will only be removable (ie you cannot put them back in the ladder stash but can go into your non ladder shared stash). You will have the entirety of the next ladder season to remove those items before they are deleted. Runewords will remain as the new ladder only runewords become makeable in non ladder after the season. Hope that helps.
found shako on Q andariel Hell, pure luck too first time killing andy in hell. That was, of course, on singleplayer. Shako drops on nm baal as well quicker than most bosses.
Google kept slaying and hit Sweet Phil's add revenue with enhanced crushing blow. In other news, gambling for the gull dagger on a lvl 11 character costs the average person less than 2 million gold. Its +100 mf on its own and easy enough to swap weapons for the killing blow.
@@TheStrongestBaka The chances of you not getting it after 6000 daggers is approximately 4.97% that's about as much chance as a lvl 1 has hitting an uber 😂 you unlucky bas...rd
Ihad a Orb/Hydra sorc since I started her in SP, switched to Meteor for my mf runs as i found hydra wasnt killing enemies fast enough. I try to set my difficulty to 3 or 5, so hydras werent working as well.
I need shako, arachnids mesh, and viper magi … been 75% ass grinding for about 6 mos to a year The list of stuff I have found (ssf on p1) instead of these three things makes no sense
Best guide to find the shako is to not let the game know you're looking for the shako.
Всё верно, надо заходить в игру за марой 😀
100% truth. Whatever your looking for will drop when your not looking for it.
I started to use ISLC ram cleaner.. Maybe helps maybe luck.. but Titans revenge and best amazon gloves instantly :D
Troof!
Agreed!
I watched this video, then ran catacombs a couple times with 225mf and got a shako and a skin of vipermagi. Thanks dude!
Do not forget all the terrorized zones from nightmare or hell after you reach level 67 can drop a shako as it is an ilvl69 item.
One does not simply find the shako, the shako finds you
Or just have a friend who has one but doesn't use it.
Farmed Mephisto hell around 1000 times, didnt get a shako. Watched your video to see if i was doing the right thing and thought, cool i'm doing the right thing. Started up the game, did 7 Mephisto runs and it droppped :) :) :)
Congrats Aron!!
1/1007 drop chance then
@@ppbdrinker lol
Eh ok
@@ppbdrinkernah, it's much higher than 1/1007. He got himself infused with Destiny and beat the odds!
Wow, just found my first Shako on my way to H Andy with 152 MF off of 4 champion zombies in catacombs 3, Thanks Phil!
Shako could be drop everywhere. there is no magic place.
I've drop it 6 times in different places each time. Tristram included.
@@utilisateurlambda7983 anywhere in hell. Not anywhere though...
Few weeks ago found 2 of them. 1 was from a rock in cows the other chaos sanc nearly missed that one
Tip* Always hit the armor and weapon rack down by Meph. My son have gotten Tal Rasha's Armor there before.
Damn grandpa
I got a HoZ off it about 20 years ago
Same here, 2x Tal armor in my D2 career
I have never gotten a green or brown item from any rack.
@@Parasmunt you're not flipping enough rocks in p7+ games then.
I've gotten a shako from an urn ⚱️
You're totally right Phil, that's how the probability goes. When there is a larger universe of options possible to get, the chances to get any single one of them goes down.
For example, if you want to get heads out of an universe of options of {heads, tails} that's 1 out of 2 = 50% = 0.5,
but if you want to get a 6 out of a six headed dice, that'd be 1 out of a universe of options of {1,2,3,4,5,6}, which translates to 1 out of 6 = 16% = 0.16.
What i do for my 1st shako is either farm Meph and Andy in hell or when im bored of that i farm Den of Evil, Bishibosh, Rakanishu, Tristram, Dark Wood, Black Marsh and Tower. Since they added Underground passage lvl2 as a lvl 85 area I'd probably just farm that on my way from stony field to dark wood
For me it droped in a trade window this time, what a surprise! :D
Wow, what luck. You should probably have used that on a lottery ticket!
@@Crazdor :D
Got a shako on my first maggot lair lvl 3 run after deciding to farm for it. It rolled ethereal.
Just put a zod in it ez pz
@@TTSATruthwhat if he's on single player
Great vids. Just found your channel after coming back to D2R last week. My lightning sorc is stuck in A3 Hell with no more respecs, but I am pressing onward. Looking forward to the grind
I did some 200 Andariel runs in hopes of getting it and nothing, got pretty tired and gave up. I went to tristram to get a leg to do some cows and hit the bed, I on accident hit a few mobs and a shako dropped. I was happy and sad at the same time cos it dropped when I gave up on it. So I think you need to truly give up on an item in order for it to drop :D
get a merc with kelpie snare or that other -50% slow polearm and mephisto/andariel are super slow (also cast time is slowed) and no danger anymore, especially early on very good
I read that as well. You keep it as a normal item so your merc can’t kill dolls while you’re teleporting to Mephisto. It’s just for like you said the slow rate.
If you have one, an Occulus with an Ist rune is a great option.
That's 80% magic find without losing much stats.
I found my first shako when farming bases with nearly 0 mf (opening the super chest in the pit), and now I have 300+ mf for ages and yet to see another unique shako LOL
That's because you don't need another one.
Just have your characters share 😉
They're leaving more room for other uniques/sets for you 😂
The intro felt like an infomercial lol. Great tutorial! The hunt for my shako begins!
I got one from Andy and one from arcane sanctuary, can't remember where I got the other one, I'm having great lucky by my standards, this ladder I've found ohm jah and 4x ist, 2nd jah in over 10k hours between d2 and d2r.
Seen a lot of plain Shakos drop in Act 1 Hell but still haven’t found a unique.
In my 17 years playing the game (on and off) I’ve found 2 shako’s. One of which was eth. But I’ve found a total of 5 mang-songs between all my accounts 😂
Thats insane!!!
Under rated: grizzies armor with 3 p topaz. Life, MF, defense. I ran that on my SP sorc for a long while doing hell meph
Be carefull with these dropcalculators and go with ingame experience instead. However, there is no doubt that Andariel is the safest, fastest and easiest way to obtain a shako. Once i did 2000 andy runs for Soj farming with about 350 MF and got not less than 17 shakos during those runs...took me about two months to complete. Both Baal and Meph are also, statistically, good places, but they are far away from wps and the road to them is very dangerous for HC players.
If you need Gheeds, Viperskin and Shako ...you go Andy :)
@ZyklonBeast i know its old but the sweet spot for mf is 350. do not buy these youtubers that say "i ran xxxxxx for 12 hours with 24802482480 MF and this is what i found". What you want is a balance of good dps with decent mf. 350 is the sweet spot for that, you do high damage so you clear it fast and your mf is at a decent level. above 350, there is actually diminishing returns. For instance, you will actually see a higher frequency of tiers other than unique in drops meaning you have less chance of dropping the unique despite having more mf. If you want more uniques, 350 mf is the way to go because you get good balance of damage + speed and less frequent bad magic loot. Another bonus is more socket bases will drop the lower ur mf is (obviously if you are socket base hunting, you would use 0 mf. but sometimes its nice when ur mf running and a good socket base drops "i'll save that for later" kind of deal)
When D2R launched, I found one shako from Meph and one from Cows. On ladder, I found a whole bunch of shakos from everywhere. ALL BLUE AND YELLOW SHAKOS!!!🤬
enjoy all your videos brother, question, i see a Maltese cross on your shirt alot... paid or volunteer ? either way thank you for your service brother... i had to quit being a volunteer because of a back injury... i sure do miss running into a burning building.
After years spent playing online, i started to play offline last week.
First charater, first time in hell, first elite in spider cavern dropped the giddbin and the shako.
I wasn't so exicted since i made my first enigma.
DUDE love your guide found my first single player shako today off hell meph also got an occy on the same drop found arach next run
I found mine by accident along with a Bone Break charm at the Frigid Highlands on Hell and terrorized.
best advice to finding anything---he said it there--- stop looking for specific items, loot the 85 areas-- you eventually find everything you need
Thank you for your videos, especially the one about why you aren't finding tons of special items. They help casual gamers who aren't really a part of the "culture" of gaming . For some reason, I seem to have the magic touch with Shakos (I've found I think five so far) but I'm still wanting a H-Crest for my Hammerdin.
I can't believe all the years it took me to find different stuff . Especially runes ... glad they increased the drop rate on those years back .
I found one for the first time in Travincal a week ago! Really glad to cross that one off
Great guide! Crazy how i got 2 shakos, 1 from Pindleskin and 1 from andariel
New to the game, my grandson got me hooked on the game. Question: What is an 85 area?
That’s cool that your grandson got you into the game. I’ve been playing since it came out and maybe I’ll play with my kids when they get older.
Lvl 85 area is an area with the highest monster level meaning that any item in the game can drop. These are the best areas to farm if you are looking for the rarest gear like Griffons.
Another great vid man thank you
Do you have any gambling guide vids? Been trying to gamble a maras with my lvl 88 sorc
So far like 15 million in gold and nothing (single player)
That's quite accurate. I got my Shako on the way for Pits , dropped by regular monster. Same game got Ber rune from Pits. 👌😁
Very Nice *borat voice
I’ve been playing since it dropped on console and I never found a shako. when ladder started 2 weeks in I found 3 in a day. 2 from Andy one from meph. I couldn’t believe it.
I just watched your video and said to myself - Oh well... I still don't have shako, would be good to farm Mephisto later, got only 145% of MF and went to halls of pain just to get waypoint and try get key from Nihlathak and just dropped SHAKO from normal monster as 78 LVL Hammerdin.
I was farming items as sorceress for ages and almost never dropped anything worth. But as Palladin always I had luck, just 2 days ago dropped CHAM rune from normal monster in the jungle, now SHAKO, just wow. Hammerdin is so lucky.
Yeah 500 runs on both Mephisto and Andariel and I finally got my Shako off of an Armor Rack in Lower Kurast. The game knows what you're looking for and it almost never gives it to you.
Finally found one in Tamoe Highlands : It turned out to be ethereal :( I could just cry
If you just starting the game much easier to find a 3 socket armor than 4. So having 3 perfect topaz armor is a great start on normal and nightmare imo
or just get a Lem which are pretty common for 100MF
@@skroozscrungus6738 Lem are gold find... Ist for magic find would be a massive waste in anything besides a weapon that early on.... Even then, save the ist to trade.
@@skroozscrungus6738 Ist Runes add Magic Find. Lem runes add gold find. Unless you’re talking about making a Wealth runeword?
@@skroozscrungus6738 magic find does not impact rune drop rates
that durance of hate to the left example seemed almost right to me XD like i guess it was like a couple inches left of the waypoint but damn
I just got one on my Single player HC Sorc from Hell-Duriel FIRST KILL! literally freakin out!
Mephitso is the best for Shaco and right outside the door on act 4 the one where u could dupe money which I assume is patched only item I haven't found is the blue kraken shield in this game from baal after 2k runs guarantee if you run out of act 4 kill all the Amazon people and the mini boss you'll get it
I've been playing sp for about a year. My paladin is level 95 . I've found two jah, a ber, two vex and an ohm, death fathom, 15% Nightwing, 15%blizz ormus, mara, full tals, etc, but haven't found a shako. I'm still wearing a 3ptopaz helm because all the tarnhelms I've found are 30% or less. So tell me more about how to find a shako...
Great video. NM meph dropped it for me the first week D2R came out. Right now I’m looking for HoZ for my Hammerdin. It just won’t drop.
I found two on non ladder not that far apart. First in Trav and the second in the pits. No luck on ladder as of yet
Pallys put one point into charge and vigor and if your poor find some 20-40%+ run/ walks and a stealth helped me get around until was able to start running trav and chaos. Have a rejuve on hand incase you charge into trouble...
I spent an hour and half farming coldcrow for a gul early game to get 100mf and just rocked that until I could build more without losing anymore kill speed
I found my first Shako last week after about 500 Meph runs. Not from Meph, but a random chest on the way! 🤦♂
Found a baby shako pretty early, slammed a p topaz in it. Shako next ladder when I'm not on the road all the time
Got my first Shako from Shenk same day as watching your video...bizarre.
Watched this out of curiosity, right after i farmed a couple baals for an essence, randomly got a shako lmao
For me it droped from Andariel on Hell, while i was looking for Gheeds :D
What gem/jewel/rune would anyone recommend to put in the socket?
second run after watchung your guide I've got Bul katos ring, thanx Phil
I didn't even know shako was important. Only kept it because someone brought it up earlier today. What do I use it for?
Hi Phil I play for fun and I like collect thinks with Atma program. I will like to ask If D2R support Atma Thanks man
I used to have like 700 magic find. It would take me half a hour to clear the pits. I would do like 15 runs then complain I never found anything. Lol
Meph somehow managed to walk around the moat when i was avoiding the cold immune council 😐
10:51 Have you mirrored your screen or something? This is confusing xD?
one of you streamers needs to do a video about what happens come the end of ladder.. ie what happens to the toons you made? can they be transferred or are they deleted? what about the gear? bliz says that you can use the new ladder runewords.. does that mean we can keep the ones we make? or we can just make them outside ladder after its over? and generally what happens, timings and whatnot.. THANKS for all the content
The chars will become non-ladder chars in your account just like the others. The items will be in a shared stash, but will only be removable (ie you cannot put them back in the ladder stash but can go into your non ladder shared stash). You will have the entirety of the next ladder season to remove those items before they are deleted. Runewords will remain as the new ladder only runewords become makeable in non ladder after the season. Hope that helps.
I found two off hell andarial
Found mine on a champion maggot in the maggot Lair, act 2.
Still hunting for one lol good video my dude
Thank you. This is exactly where I'm at right now. Decent level but sht gear
Can you find a shako from terrorized nightmare Andy?
thank you for this info it will help me out a whole lot
Found 1 Hell Andy quest, second in the river of flame.
found shako on Q andariel Hell, pure luck too first time killing andy in hell. That was, of course, on singleplayer. Shako drops on nm baal as well quicker than most bosses.
Memorieszz 🧢
A true expert my man.
I got a rare shako, that was close to rolling unique, I gotta start farming more seriously
Terrorized nightmare andariel. Can drop shako and a multitude of other good gear for endgame. Easy tp farm too.
found a shako laying around in an cleared cow level. People just missed it
Google kept slaying and hit Sweet Phil's add revenue with enhanced crushing blow. In other news, gambling for the gull dagger on a lvl 11 character costs the average person less than 2 million gold. Its +100 mf on its own and easy enough to swap weapons for the killing blow.
I remember having gambled 6000 daggers and not getting anywhere at D2R launch. Never again.
@@TheStrongestBaka The chances of you not getting it after 6000 daggers is approximately 4.97% that's about as much chance as a lvl 1 has hitting an uber 😂 you unlucky bas...rd
@@honeybadger036 Yeah, I've been motivating myself with some calculations and the "okay, i can't be that unlucky" argument 😀
@@TheStrongestBaka You got this buddy 👍 go get some!
Ihad a Orb/Hydra sorc since I started her in SP, switched to Meteor for my mf runs as i found hydra wasnt killing enemies fast enough. I try to set my difficulty to 3 or 5, so hydras werent working as well.
Season 3 d2R got my first shako to drop in my life, terrorized blood raven of all places😂
First day on ladder got shako from NM Baal!
just had 2 shakos drop from the same group of monsters in the pit
also do the armor and weapon racks at mephisto for monarch drop
I actually found it on my 1st run with my hydra orb sorc.
Lies, the best way to find a shako is to use your credit card
Since d2r launch ive found shako from duriel 3 times, 2 times was the first kill in hell
I foand Shako in a chest. That was a great suprise.
Dude Ive looted tons of shakos… white and grey rarity shakos that is
I just got one from NM Andarial terrorized.
I found mine whilst raising skeletons in cold plains, players one from bishiboshi 😂😂
Find an Um or Mal.
Regular non-extra skillers drop in NM act 3+. A cold skiller with nothing else will go for a Mal.
Um or Mal for Shako.
I need shako, arachnids mesh, and viper magi … been 75% ass grinding for about 6 mos to a year
The list of stuff I have found (ssf on p1) instead of these three things makes no sense
I found The Oculus from a normal monster doing Countess runs.
Anyone have issues with weapon swapping keeping the spell on your bars, but the spell is un-useable?
Hey Phil! Found 2 shako from Meph on same hour lol. Crazy RNG for 150 MF.
I started playing in single player and found Tal armor , 4x arachnid, occy with ist, but still no shako /cry
In my single player i found 3 shakos before i got my tal armor and i think i had 4 shakos before arach lol
Sweet Phil is my go to for d2 info! Keep slaying brother
You don’t find a shako, a shako finds you
I found my only shako and make socket on it and put Perfect topaz lol..
Statistics and farming are great and all. And then I had one randomly drop in the stony field with just 10 mf. This game wild sometimes
Been looking for it since the ladder started
Diablo II: The game with eleventy million mini-games within!
Next ladder I'll most likely do quest glitch drop maphisto
My flow chart for magic finding... 1. Can it drop a shako? > If yes > Kill it.