Staff Of Herding Help Plz

I have been farming both Izual & Diablo at least 3x each everyday for both bosses for over 3 months and still no plans for the staff of herding, I do have the rest of the mats to make the staff. Getting to get giving up discouragement attitude about it.
I have narrowed down 2 ways of getting these plans I have done both over & over 1rst is: Head over to Act IV: 4. Prime Evil – Begin Quest. Select the waypoint The Crystal Colonnade. Take the gateway to The Silver Spire, cross the Great Span, ignore Leah. Enter
The Silver Spire Level 1. Ignore Mira and continue running until you find the portal to The Great Span. Enter the Great Span. Kill Izual. Slay Izual. Once slain, your progress will be saved to a new checkpoint, so if you were not lucky with the loot, you will
have to select Act IV: 4. Prime Evil – Begin Quest one again in order for you to kill him. I have repeatedly done this from master to T1-T2 modes

2nd way is, while in adventure mode my character can solo T1-T2 and no further till better gear required to go T3 & further. I also go this route: Enter The Silver Spire Level 1, over to the great span then kill Izual if he doesn't drop the staff plans (always
dropping the angelic shards and vendor or salvageable loot) then I use map going to the Great Span to kill Diablo.

So one of my questions for the Xbox 360 Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls Ultimate Edition is which one of these ways is the correct way to do it, or do they both have same very small probability results to have the plan drop. I am putting as much magic find gear
& gems as I can with what I have or get.

Another thought I have seeing how we can mail & trade between characters & friends if someone had a extra "already known" plan before destroying or selling it trade to me as I would make a worthwhile trade back. This would kill the farming of this and be
able to do other things in game instead of just farming for one thing all the time. I would say you could do this for your friends also. I am socially dysfunctional and either solo or join when the need is there.

Any help would be appreciated and favors returned. My gamertag is TharWeGood

Have an Awesome day folks & may the good luck fortune favors you.

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How to get the Lord of Bells?

So I have this staff of herding. The cow rift does not occur.

Do i need to equip the staff? That's a hassle, because if the rift turns out to be a normal one, I need to equip my old weapons.

Is it enough if my enchantress wields the staff of herding?

Using a witch doctor with +88 Magic Find.

 

Staff of herding plans

seriously just load a normal game on act 4 prime evil and talk to the quartermaster merchant, look where hes selling where salvage mats usually r and if u can select that he is selling the normal plans for 1 gold. also on nightmare, hell and inferno this
works just more expensive. if the plans r not for sale by him simply quit and start again until found.

 

If you like ill give you a hand when we are both free