At your first Countess kill, she dropped a Monarch shield. That's the only shield you'll be able to use which can get up to 4 sockets for the Spirit runeword (which also gives big resistances instead of damage when it's on a shield.) You can use the cube recipe Tal + Amn + Perfect Ruby + Any Shield (white, not superior, but it can be eth) to give it a random number of sockets. On a shield like Monarch which can get a maximum of 4 sockets, it actually rolls 1-6 and if the result is 4/5/6 then it gets 4 sockets. Meaning you have a 50% chance to get 4 sockets.
@@jukexjuke Other things you might wanna look for would be the unique Shako called Harlequin Crest. Andariel on Hell has the best chance of dropping it. She can also drop many other interesting items. Hell is otherwise where you run into problems regarding gearing when you're playing offline because you aren't able to trade, and the amazing items are pretty rare. For your next direct weapon upgrade called Heart of the Oak, you need a Vex rune which cannot drop from countess' bonus rune drop table and is very rare. And if you find an even rarer rune such as an Ohm rune then normally you'd be able to trade it for 1.5 - 2.0 Vex runes but that's not an option for you unfortunately. Getting the Smoke runeword, a Monarch with Spirit runeword, and hopefully a Harlequin Crest shako would probably be the best you could realistically hope for. Farming Andariel might be the longest grind you've done, and you should equip any Nagelrings or other inexpensive sources of Magic Find that you come across during the farm. You'd probably want to kill her 100 times rather than the usual 10-20 times if you want a real shot at getting the shako and other valuable items like Stone of Jordan.
@@jukexjuke don't waste your time farming a shako. With 100 magic find (which is probably way more than you have), the odds of dropping it on andariel are 1:1129. I've played hundreds of hours if not a thousand and i only dropped 1. Just play the storyline and you'll find gear along the way. And yea, remember that shield, "Monarch", it's very high value for you. It's the best in slot shield for your build (spirit), but you might need to respec cus you need 156 strenght to use it.
If you need more damage, use Lightning sentry instead of Death sentry. Death sentry is only good for the corpse explosions. Lightning sentry does 3-4x more lightning damage. So use Lightning sentry to make some corpses, then cast 2-3x Death sentries to blow them up.
At your first Countess kill, she dropped a Monarch shield. That's the only shield you'll be able to use which can get up to 4 sockets for the Spirit runeword (which also gives big resistances instead of damage when it's on a shield.)
You can use the cube recipe Tal + Amn + Perfect Ruby + Any Shield (white, not superior, but it can be eth) to give it a random number of sockets. On a shield like Monarch which can get a maximum of 4 sockets, it actually rolls 1-6 and if the result is 4/5/6 then it gets 4 sockets. Meaning you have a 50% chance to get 4 sockets.
@Forty2de thank you! I'll keep lookout fot those shields as I had no idea what to look for on hell right now besides smoke for resistances on armor
@@jukexjuke Other things you might wanna look for would be the unique Shako called Harlequin Crest. Andariel on Hell has the best chance of dropping it. She can also drop many other interesting items.
Hell is otherwise where you run into problems regarding gearing when you're playing offline because you aren't able to trade, and the amazing items are pretty rare. For your next direct weapon upgrade called Heart of the Oak, you need a Vex rune which cannot drop from countess' bonus rune drop table and is very rare. And if you find an even rarer rune such as an Ohm rune then normally you'd be able to trade it for 1.5 - 2.0 Vex runes but that's not an option for you unfortunately.
Getting the Smoke runeword, a Monarch with Spirit runeword, and hopefully a Harlequin Crest shako would probably be the best you could realistically hope for. Farming Andariel might be the longest grind you've done, and you should equip any Nagelrings or other inexpensive sources of Magic Find that you come across during the farm. You'd probably want to kill her 100 times rather than the usual 10-20 times if you want a real shot at getting the shako and other valuable items like Stone of Jordan.
@Forty2de thank you I will definitely try and get this grind on for d2 and see how far i can take it
@@jukexjuke don't waste your time farming a shako. With 100 magic find (which is probably way more than you have), the odds of dropping it on andariel are 1:1129. I've played hundreds of hours if not a thousand and i only dropped 1. Just play the storyline and you'll find gear along the way. And yea, remember that shield, "Monarch", it's very high value for you. It's the best in slot shield for your build (spirit), but you might need to respec cus you need 156 strenght to use it.
@juliensorel2517 156 strength?!? Lmaoo I just got to 50😂😂, and those odds sound horrendous lol
If you need more damage, use Lightning sentry instead of Death sentry. Death sentry is only good for the corpse explosions. Lightning sentry does 3-4x more lightning damage. So use Lightning sentry to make some corpses, then cast 2-3x Death sentries to blow them up.
@juliensorel2517 thank you. I was wondering the purpose of lightning sentry besides just buffing death sentry
bind your left click to throw and it will act like a click to move, with out the target.
@Kazushi0311 thank you! Ima have to check that out bc I be getting slightly tilted getting stuck and not moving😂
Stick to that cautious gameplay. 1% of players did Hell difficulty on hardcore. It would be a huge accomplishment, really.
@@juliensorel2517 every single corner is a mini boss fight right now😂
@juliensorel2517 if i can make it through id be impressed. It'll be my first ever hc character
@@jukexjuke you got this. Baby steps.
@juliensorel2517 thank you!