Maestro of Rancor - Plane of Hate  

Killed him tonight, 10/29/03.

Dropped Darkfelt Robes x2 and

Dissertation of Dar War
MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO DROP
WT: 0.5 Size: SMALL
Class: None
Race: None

we killed him on the Tribunal a bit ago.. not an easy fight had about 42 there.. we are not the "uber guild" but the posts here helped a bit.. near the end of the fight our raid force was toast except for 3 necros and what was left of the mellee.. the 3 necros life burned the weakened meastro down and killed him but the 3 banshees avenged him and killed all who was left... the worst part about it was everyone died and nobody had any Hate stones on them so his loot rotted while scurring to get more and we never got to even see what dropped.. so a word of advice bring spare stones, from now on i ALWAYS will.

Very important to keep Maestro on his stage. Facing the piano, keep him to the back, left corner cause there's a cubby hole back there. Keep him there for the entire fight.

The hands do spawn at 75%, but they don't actually cast heals as I had imagined they did. Instead, when they appear, Maestro's already godly regen sky-rockets into the absurd. They seem easy enough to kill when every spare person goes over and concentrates on doing them in.

During the fight, the doors swing open and 3 untargettable Silent Banshee's sweep majestically into the room (it is SO cool looking). They take their stations around the room. One stays in front of the doors, one stands on the wall opposite the 'stage' and one stands with her back to the wall facing the doors across from her.

Now, when Maestro is 40% life they don't do a thing, but *just* before his life goes to 39 they become active and change to, I believe, *Screeching Banchees*. This is when someone needs to keep Maestro tank mezzed while everyone else beats those Banshee's to death. They wiped the raid last night 3 times. The banshee's aren't mezzable but they are rootable. Keeping them away from the stage during the Maestro fight is imperative. Once we did that, we won.

-75%, the hands will spawn, kill them asap because they will heal him
-40%, get ready for Banshee's to become active. Everyone who can leave Maestro fight and head toward Banshees. Casters stay on stage and nuke but if you get aggro, run away from the stage so you don't get the healers in range of the mana drain.
-39%, Kill Banshees.

Very important to not push Maestro to the doors. That happened once and wiped us from all the adds that ran in and assisted. I charmed one add and by the time everyone else was dead a Banshee charmed me. I was the only person in Hate left standing, but I was a pet. (FD monk nearby found time to get a /snicker in, the beatch. heh) Maestro, the adds, and the 3 banshees stood around me waiting for charm to wear off. Talk about Irony... I've been on the other end of that so many times.

Hope this helps.

Edit: forgot to mention there were 43 people on the raid. Really fun fight.

Edited, Fri Aug 15 12:14:37 2003

What class is this guy? SK????

as we have been killing this guy a lot, i realized where we pull him to. pull him to the door, in the corner, make sure people dont click on door, gets annoying. but since hes over there, the hands will not agro the MA, and the hybrids can go kill the hands easily and then kill maestro =)

Cracked Bone Shinguards
MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO DROP
Slot: LEGS
AC: 38
STA: +15 WIS: +14 INT: +14 HP: +70
MANA: +90 SV FIRE: +12 SV DISEASE: +12 SV COLD: +12
SV MAGIC: +12 SV POISON: +12
Recommended level of 60.
WT: 7.5 Size: MEDIUM
Class: WAR CLR PAL RNG SHD BRD ROG SHM
Race: ALL

Someone earlier mentioned that he drops a robe. We killed him last night and he dropped it so I figured I'd post the stats:

Darkfelt Robes
MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO DROP
Slot: CHEST
AC: 21
STR: +12 DEX: +10 WIS: +20 INT: +20 AGI: +12 HP: +90 MANA: +75
Recommended level of 60.
Focus: Focus of Solusek
WT: 11.0 Size: MEDIUM
Class: NEC WIZ MAG ENC
Race: ALL

Fun little encounter. Looking forward to figuring out the new inny.

Derryk Morrdayne - Rest in Peace - Ayonae Ro

NO epic drops remain on the loot tables for the Maestro or Innoruuk. They have all been moved to other mobs/encounters elsewhere in the zone, including the ranger stone.

The warrior epic piece now drops off the Hand of the Maestro, which does not change into a 2nd spawn like it used to.

Additionally, from what I have seen, the Hand can spawn independently of the Maestro. We saw the Hand up, killed it, and 2 or 3 days later it was up again, without the Maestro having spawned inbetween. A little bit of time played in the New Hate will confirm spawn times on the various minibosses.

Hey All, I just thought I'd post a little info on the new Maestro that might prove helpful to others trying to kill him.

First of all, he's tougher. Much much tougher. Don't even think about killing him with the same kind of force that he used to be killable with (i.e. 1 60's group). Here's the details.

Our guild went up today exploring the new hate. We got to the Maestro and didn't have a full force on line, so we decided to try him with 30 people. We had heard from Stormhammer that he was much harder now, but we figured with a 65 warrior MA, 64 warrior SA, and 5 cleric CH cycle we'd be ok. We prepped and engaged.

The Maestro now cons red at level 65. He quads for 1030 damage a hit. 65 chanty and 65 shaman could not slow him. Tash landed, and Mala did of course (unresistable), but I (a 61 mage) could not get Malosini to stick. In addition to his melee damage he has a 1500 damage lifetap, that can go off up to 4 times a round. So basically he's capable of putting out 10,120 damage a round. At one point as we were wiping he hit one of our warriors for 4 1500 point lifetaps, plus 2k in melee damage, for a total of 6k damage in one round. Needless to say with only 30 people we wiped, and no, we didn't try to zerg him. It was a well thought out encounter.

We hope to try him again soon with a 10 cleric cycle so a CH will land every second, and that should be sufficient to take him down. Fire nukes landed fine on him, I did not try magic. His regen is crazy fast, of course. At one point I saw him go up in health one percent as 30 people were beating on him. His actual hp's did not seem that high though. With the cleric force to keep the MA alive, I don't think the encounter would have been longer than 2-3 minutes. Did not think to take a screenshot unfortunately, in all the excitement =/

During the fight 3 npc's spawned, con dark blue at level 65, and went to 3 corners of the room. We only had Maestro down to 90 percent when we wiped, so it's unknown as of now what those NPC's are for, or will do later in the fight, or when the fight is finished. They did not interfere with us at all.

Well that's all I can think of for now. Hope this helps out some people thinking of taking him on.

Safe journeys.

Hey just a heads up on legends this guy hits for 1 k now and has a 1500 lifetap.. hrmm gotta change that sig

Also appears that he is bugged maybe as he LTed one guy 4 times in 2-3 seconds



Edited, Tue Apr 8 17:24:52 2003

i have thought of that is we can kill a god then why cant we just become gods out selves lol i mean the gods are not as stong as the sleeper dud for crying out loud if a stuipd dragon or what ever is the thing in sleepers tome can kill 100ppl then why c an a dang god fall to 30 ppl

after we kill this guy where do i find the book of souls? plz reply

Killed him yesterday. With the recent changes to NPC spells we expected him to be tough. He wasn't. I found him to be no different than the million other times we killed him. Long fight though, thanks to the lifetap.