Maestro of Rancor - Plane of Hate  

There's a lot of information here that is wrong or confusing.

Maestro cannot be slowed. You get the immune to attack speed changes message if you try.

At the start, three of the banshees will spawn in the open area before the organ but not will not move.

At 75%, two accompanists spawn on the piano. They appear to be rooted. I had trouble slowing them but they're not immune. I only tried magic slow.

If you back your group/raid into the back corner by the organ, you can avoid the banshees from ever aggroing you. I chose the corner to the right as you enter his room. Tank was in line with the bench and everyone was packed in the corner. It can be tricky to position Maestro without him getting on the organ so you may have to run back and forth a bit until you get it right.

If you fail to properly position yourself, the banshees will aggro. Since they can be avoided, they should be. The one that procs the mana drain is pretty devastating if you're not killing fast. The charm banshee was resisted every single time with 400-500 MR on my characters. The banshees each have about 50-60k hitpoints and can be slowed if you decide to take them on. Max hit was mid 600s.

Moaning banshee casts Thought Vortex (mana drain) A LOT, every 8-10 seconds. High priority first kill.
Screeching banshee casts Scorn's Beckon (charm). Easily resisted.
Wailing banshee didn't seem to cast spells.

Ultimately, my group damaged him for 600k, but a lot of that was from regenerating at 75% health when the accompanists come out.

Tank had 12.3k HP, level 65, 22 HSta, 18 HAgi, 950ish AC. Max hit was 1207, with 1324 hits in 742 seconds, and an average hit of 493. I took 354K total damage. I had 500 MR but his lifetap still hit for 687 on average.

I managed to do this in era (Hate 2.0 comes in LDoN) with one group consisting of Paladin, Cleric, Druid, Bard, Monk, and Shaman.

Edited, Jun 23rd 2020 12:54am by stealingjoy

Edited, Jun 23rd 2020 12:54am by stealingjoy

Edited, Jun 23rd 2020 12:55am by stealingjoy

I can't find the item/a screen capture of Basoon Haste Gauntlets, a nerfed drop from Maestro. Anyone have an old screenshot or database info on the thing?

http://www.onlinegamecommands.com/everquest/everquesthaste.htm

5str 5agi 5dex 25hp Wt0.1, MNK -ND

Edited, Aug 20th 2010 8:54am by amalgamax

Went up with my 85 Necro and a friends 76 Shaman.

The Maesro's room had the undead ladies in it. I don't know the name of the one in particular but we killed it and it spawned another, again and again. Maybe 5 times? I was afraid we'd have to leave after we ran out of mana. IT was close but we did ok.


The Maestro beat us down and we had to leave.

2nd try with just the Necro.
No ladies at all in his room on the 2nd try a day or so later. Run in and Attack!

I killed the hands as soon as they popped. I noticed here on Allah they were healers. Pet tanked the Maestro.
Maestro seemed resistant to most spells but a couple of fire spells landed most of the time so I used those two and let pet tank and Merc heal.

Merc ran out of mana but regen'd very nicely while pet tanked so the heals were always there. I sat and dotted when I could. No problems.

spawn time is 3 days

Sign of the times in a ever changing game but I soloed him with 85 tank and merc.

Killed the hands then him then banshees.

Took a while but not a hard fight at all ;(

Merc had almost full mana all the time and I never dropped below 75%.

Hands healed him at around 80% which is why I then switched and killed them first.

Takin down with an 85 mage and healer merc...Maestro was rather resistant to my spells, including AA Malo and normal cast...I'd say he resisted probably 60% of my fire nukes (all i bothered using)and then they did hit, most of them were partially resisted (crits in the 2ks rather than the 14ks)...Pet tanked the entire fight of course, when hands spawned, had pet kill those then back on Rancor, when zombies came into play, just let them beat on pet till Maestro was dead. Anywho, fight was easy, took 10 mins to down him and all the adds.

Edited, Nov 28th 2008 6:16pm by Woaglador

No other mob was up besides Rancor, that drops the SEoC. I was scouting with my 80 paladin. 395 AA's. So, my pally friend tagged along for the pre quest 1.5. We looked on EQ alla and noticed it was hard, (dark blue to lvl 80,) So he logged his Shammy(80) and box cleric (76). i was 18k/3k buffed, at the time. When Rancor got down to 75%, i believe you have to kill the add's first, not for sure, but, it's a good thing, i popped Armor of Decorum rk2. Anyway, it healed itself back to 100%, as you know. When the banshee's spawned, cleric was OOM. And I had already used Holyforge Disc. And LoH was down. I crit for 11k-. He resists Burial Rites rk2 and spurn undead. He was slowed, but DID NOT hit over 1k, possibly not over 800. I used my potions where it refills all HP, too, and mana. The banshee's apparently mana draw. Anyway, we finished with 30m on pally, and oom on shammy and cleric. This mob is hard, and DID NOT drop SEoC. But it doesn't consist a raid, if it does, it's called the shammy,pally,cleric riad :D

So sayeth my holy blade. Pally slay ftw. 350 MR and I didn't resist any of the lifetaps. Resisted all my undead procs, Puma proc but not slay undead.

Edited, Mar 19th 2008 6:03pm by fcoty

75pal (1150aa), 75 clrbot (350aa), 72 zerkbot (170aa). Fun fight. Prolly duo-able with cler/paladin. Will come back and try it later.

Most rounds = 186-200s. Max hit that I saw = 800s. Nothing vs modern group content.. adds make the event a little interesting. Zombies were stunnable, and all adds lt blue to 75. Maestro and hands seemed immune to slow.


Dropped Pal alt quest loot piece, as well as the robe and caster pants. (and Marsinger melee quest drop). Whole fight prolly took ~ 15-20min.

He looks alot like Paul Wolfowitz!

What is the spawn time for this guy? Thanks!

This fight seems to be pretty easy if you bring lots of melee dps. Group consited of a paladin, cleric, mage, wizard, ranger, and rogue, all level 75. Paladin was raid buffed to 19.5k hp, 3.6k ac. The paladin never really needed much healing except for an occasion HoT.

Tanked him down from the stage. At around 80% or so 3 non-targettable wanderers slowly walked in, all with the same name. The stared at us for a while until the Maestro went down to 50% or so, then they became active. Pally offtanked all 3 adds while dps killed 2 of them leaving the wailing banshee up. At this point Maestro became extremely resistant to magic and fire nukes (mage rains seem to hit) so it was tough to dps him down. Ranger rooted but everytime the ranger had to kite, the Maestro would regen so we finally had the cleric kiting and the ranger dpsing.

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Edited, Jan 15th 2007 5:46am by Rodth