I had another thought about maxing out QoL
instead of {coven + maras + 2x soj} or {shako + 2/20 amulet + 2x soj}, you could hypothetically go {shako + maras + sling + rare fcr ring with +mana}
Now it would struggle a bit more to hit the higher mana, you're losing 40 base mana and +50% max but get the same +skills towards teleport and blood boil, a bit easier to max out resists and even have CBF with maras (coven setup already does it, but 2/20 with +resists is a huge ask when 2/19 doesn't work). Can't really use an opalvein or 2nd sling since the mana starts to hurt. Only +20-30 overall on the energy on sling, but up to 90 base mana on a ring or even 5 energy / 10% regen / 110 mana on a crafted ring is possible but again prohibitive to obtain. Not like mana people craft caster rings. But considering you can drop your TP tome and never have to refill it, that frees up some inventory slots for 2 more charms at runtime which can be another +34 mana, or actually you can get away with using another demon skiller with that setup for +1 blood boil, but then you're actually down 1 sc as well.
The biggest drawback of this setup is its extra clicks for gear swapping, so its more prohibitive prebuff, especially since you can't shift click a second gear slot.
I'm playing with the setup and I think you can hit a manageable sustainable mana without the 2x soj. If you're getting +86% mana from battle orders and a fair amount of unscaled mana (up to 148 shako, ~114 from +energy) its pretty close or potentially higher. With 2x mana scs I go up to ~640 with no sojs, ~840 with sojs, ~870 with a +100 ring and sling. If you have a bone break with +mana its a lot easier to cap out
Advantages to this setup are that 2/20 amulets are just too hard to get, and so you're getting all the shako benefits over a coven setup (well +30% mf since coven has up to 40% already) as well as the +1 teleport. So you could get cannot be frozen from cham, free teleport and 30% mf and over-cap out your resists more easily and some extra +life overall, maybe even higher mana. But the downside is the extra clicks to prebuff, needing to manually swap a 2nd ring slot instead of just keeping sojs on all the time.
What's the purpose of cham in Shako if we are caster?
You get slowed for 25+ seconds from every cold unique's frost nova (more with sub-75 resist) which slows you picking up items and walking in town. Its a minor benefit but its still probably more important than anything else you can put in the socket, ber included.
Clicking on an unid small charm and moving at slow speed makes you realize the purpose pretty fast
This post was edited by Goomshill on Jun 18 2026 07:34am