Hand of the Maestro  

I was killing the 5 mobs in the hall in turn while waiting for the hand to spawn. When I killed the hand I waited around to see if the mob that people say is the "PH" or the other mobs spawned nexted.
It was the mob people refer to as the "PH" that spawned at the piano so it wasn't a PH for the hand as it should have been the mother mobs in the building that spawned. The "PH" mob spawned ontime in the 30 min spawn cycle.

After spending about 16 hours worth of placeholders in front of the piano, I logged in after a patch to find the Hand and the supposed placeholder in front of the piano up at the same time. So, in other words, I'm fairly certain there is no placeholder. It seems like it's just a timed spawn. What time time is tho, I have no idea. Oh well, I've got my hand.

So i've been at my 1.0 epic for a little while now on the Nameless server and right now i'm currently stuck on this mob. I've been to and from PoHate trying to get this guy to spawn and so far, no success. A post below says there is a 20 minute respawn on this guy, which i'm pretty sure is a crock of you know what. Does anyone know if this mob has a PH that needs to be killed in order to make him spawn? Any ideas?

Took him out with my 61 Pally, 63 druid, 59 shaman with 1 cleric merc and 2 warrior mercs, no problem.Wiki Link

What's the spawn time of the creature?

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I was in small guild group with my 70 necro.

My necro could hardly touch him with spells. Almost all were resisted. I would reccomend using a pet as much as you can.

was killed on Drinal with 3 65+ casters and a 58 warrior after the piece. was a short fight with the hand & the adds lying head down, feet up for innorrok to pick up

Did this for my friends warrior today. Was a 68 bst, 67 cleric and 62 war. i tanked(68 bst) wasnt so bad, only time he really did hurt me was when i was meleeing. He does have a life tap proc called Vampire Touch, wasnt to bad only about 175 or so couldnt really tell if it went off alot or not cause he does hit in 400s. He does also rampage, my pet decided to get the ramp agro. He does run at 20% hp. over all its an easy fight.

Predator Danknugzz Arethegoodnugzz - 68 Bst - Torvo
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Took down hand last night. Had a group of about 15 people. Average raid lvl was 56. This was to easy.






55 Warrior- Jnabx karana

We took him down very quickly with a group of 56 Cleric (me), 55 Rogue, 65 Beasty, 65 Chantress, 65 Ranger (did NOT have TS up), and a vbery nice bard I think was also 65. With bard resists, we were all around 300 MR and his lifetap never landed. With that out of the way, he fell before I had to heal at all.

Prior to the Bard's arrival we lost with a group of 5 becuase his damage took me by suprize. He had been hitting for nothing--around 70-200ish. Then all of a sudden, he got good and I was a bad cleric--he landed a double 440 on our BL followed by a tap and my CHeal was too late.

Moral of the story, use fast heal and get your MR high.

We absolutely destroyed the Hand of the Maestro while barely taking a scratch today. We did have a large raid force, but the average level was only 58, so this wasn't a group of 65s going to town on a MOB. The tactics we used were simple, effective, and should translate down to lower numbers without a problem.

By far the biggest problem with the Hand of the Maestro is adds. To avoid them, use the steps of the Church as your camp. Insure that you have a decent puller, and as mentioned in previous posts, the best thing to do is Pacify/Lull any of the MOBs near the Hand, or have a Monk single pull. Before doing so, clear the area immediately surrounding the Church steps to avoid aggro adds during the fight with the Hand.

Have your puller bring the Hand out on to the Steps, and engage there. If you've got multiple groups, have a Main Tank and a Rampage Tank, since the Hand does Rampage. Main Tank can pop Furious for more initial aggro through Ripostes, Rampage Tank can engage using Spirit of Rage to insure more aggro for the Rampage. The Rampage Tank isn't really necessary, though if you're doing things right. While there is an AOE Lifetap that procs from the Hand, it's only 175 points of damage, so this should not cause serious problems if you've got a Healer thats on the ball. The key to taking down the Hand is pure DPS before the Ramage/AOE Lifetap can slow you down too terribly much. As long as the Main Tank maintains aggro and the primary Healer keeps the Main Tank alive (Supernal with Complete Healing to fill in the Gaps is recommended, it deals with the Lifetaps better, unless you've got enough Clerics for a Complete Heal chain, and really, this MOB is not tough enough to require that), it's purely a matter of burning the Hand down.

If you've got Enchanters, have them Rune the tank, particularily if he's a little low on initial HPs to begin with, Spellshield couldn't hurt as well.

He has maybe a 2 or 3 day respawn. Hes up a lot on Durinal. Killed him 2 times now for some warriors with 1 group of 65's. Couldn't slow him either time. He has a lifetap AND rampage that only work from the front. With only me tanking from the front I only got the life tap and he didn't rampage unless i got summoned and he turned. Hits fast but with everyone attacking from behind and him only lifetapping me the cleric had 60 mana at the end of the fight. He will run at about 14% and bashes stun him. Best strat i've found is pacification the tier 2 mob near him and pull him up the hall while the rest wait at the door to attack from the rear. We had him running before he was halfway to the double doors in the back. Loc is in the church approx. neg 100 neg 200 just right of the entrance once in.

Aricon Drinksalot

We just took this guy last night with a group. (Were in Hate looking for Marsinger Drops.) Has a ton of MR, never landed slow. If we had a Shaman there, it might have landed. 65 Wizzy and 65 Druid were resisted until it was at 30% then they seemed to land nukes fine, and the AE lifetap hit me for up to 350 pts. Rampaged maybe every 3 or 4 rounds. Total pain in the butt undercon. Enjoy the fight. This guy is rather nasty.

Erzan Stonecastle
65 Archon of Brell
<Ruined Empire>
Xegony Server

Edited, Fri Sep 26 11:17:51 2003

I seen a lot ask this and no answer yet, so one more
time ....
Whats the Respawn time on the Hand of Maestro !!!

We raided hate last night and did the hand......for us he seemed to rampage quite a bit at the start and did'nt resist my icewind spell at that point....later in the fight it was the opposite...less rampaging and more resist.


it also summoned a few of our ppl and killed them.

had 21 people, avg lvl 57, pick up raid.
tryed to take him twice before, 2 groups, wiped both. all 3 times had a 59 war tanking, about 5.5k. first time we tryed to slow to early, tank didnt have agro, hand just picked people off one by one, same thing the second time, the 3rd time we let the tank beat on the mob for about 10% then had 1 shammy debuff, chanter tash, then another shammy slow, tank kept agro nicly, sent in the melee, and nuke the guy to hell, over 3 min fight, this guy has a lot of hps and his lifetap makes his regen unreal. had 3 clerics chain ch with druid mini healing (was over kill, probley could do with 1 cleric ching). the key is once he starts to rampage have someone feed the tank mini heals, or your tank will drop. as for pulling, we pacifyed the hand, then pulled the mob next to him, and then pulled the hand. This wasnt an easy fight but no one died. i suggest before killing him with a pickup raid, try some of the lvl 60ish yard trash, if you have trouble doing them, dont try this guy

I have been to PoH 5 times in the last 2 weeks and the hand has not been up at any of those times. I know he is always up now. Have been told by numerous warriors that he is. My question is what is his spawn rate? Is it a 3 day spawn or a 4 hour spawn....anyone know or have any ideas?

Ok, raid for of 36 with average lvl of 57 wiped two times trying to kill, Maestro of Rancor.

Is he still needed to get warrior epic piece

Dropped a Dew Clover 7th June 2003. Very happy with that since I've been after the spell Levitation for a while now, and managed to research it with the Dew Clover and Yaeth's Compendium pg 94 left. Also dropped the warrior epic peice. =)

One of the Revamps of Plane of Hate is that Hand of Maestro is no longer lvl 30. He was DB to level 60. Much tougher fight than before (hits for 400-500 and had a lifetap proc I believe) He also dropped the Hand of the Maestro needed for the Warrior Epic.

Temadin Thunderhawk
60 Ranger Karana
Emerald Unity

Was doing a guild raid on Hate tonite. Cleared all the mobs surrounding the Maestro. Prepped up at the 'throne', and got ready to pull Maestro. Went to pull, and looked down at the Maestro's feet and saw the hand (small one) conned green and indifferent. Tagged Maestro, pulled and killed. Went back to pull the hand, killed it, and the unpleasant hand popped on its death, right on top of the hands corpse. Took us by surprise since we expected the unpleasant to pop by the Maestro. No worries though, kicked the crap outta him, looted hand of the Maestro. =) Just wanted to give you FYI on him popping on the little ones death.

Zimok La'Teloch
60 Warlord of the Noir Circle
Drinal Server