NPC Spawn Issue: Maestro should have same respawn and static mobs in hate?

[Daldaen]

Bump, need some Blue/Purple text on this.

[Daldaen]

Originally Posted by Daldaen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Bump, need some Blue/Purple text on this.

[Scrubosaur]

Great research - let's make this happen!

[Alunova]

Found a lot of conflicting information and obscure timelines on both Draco and Maestro, probably best to just leave it as is.

[Freakish]

Edit: It was pointed out that I had the SoV release date wrong, most of this post is irrelevant.

At this point in the server time line it seems that Maestro should be spawning a small hand on death that respawns every 12 hours. I'm confused because theres also mention of demi bosses, and talks of a revamp before Velious.

Scars of Velious Release Date: December 5, 2000

Comment on Allakhazam: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/n...98490168329020

The Hand of Maestro
#Mar 16 2001 at 3:31 PMRating: Default

The Maestro has been changed a bit, in regards to the warrior epic. When Maestro goes down, The Hand of Maestro will spawn. This was green at 46, and is a pushover. Its a really cute little hand with a bracelet and ring, and dies really easily. Our party was laughing about this as we killed him... until it died. Cuz that's when "a very unpleasant hand" spawned. HUGE hand, was yellow to a 54, and caused a lot of pain. Also, we were unprepared because we took on the greenie rght after the Maestro, and our healers were LOM. We took him down, and one of our warriors got the hand for his epic, but I was one of the ones who had to wait around for a res. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Learn from our mistakes! The greenie is a trick! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

We killed the Maestro today and that little cute hand spawned, but after it died nothing else did. One of our warriors looted the little cute hand for the Hand of Maestro and that was it. I'm glad we didn't get to see your big nasty hand.

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#Mar 18 2001 at 2:48 AMRating: Default
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We killed the Maestro of Rancor today and estimate his new level after patch to be 56 or 57. After he was killed a miniture hand spawned out of the corpse called Hand of Maestro. It conned green to me at 51 and was easily killed. The Maestro dropped two Six Note Blades and the Hand of Maestro dropped...well...the Hand of Maestro [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Maestro of Rancor is now fairly hard to kill and is not nearly as easy as the previous version of himself. Needless to say, most of us on the raid were dissappointed that he only dropped two Six Note Blades, but what can you do? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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Followed by this information on Hand of the Maestro (NPC) link: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=6413

The Hand of the Maestro's death no longer triggers the Very Unpleasant Hand spawn. The Warrior epic piece is now dropped by this NPC

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/n...99085564686618

May 26 2001 at 12:40 AM

This little POS got our whole raid wiped out. After killing Maestro, we started killing the Hand and for some reason the pathing caused him to run away. He was snared so the tanks chased him, he agroed a ton of trash and clerics were told to camp. They camped, and came back too soon, and we all died. Had to port up another cleric to res us all. Beware the lousy Verant pathing.

Oct 16 2001 at 3:16 PM
The "Hand of the Maestro" drops the hand, at least he has every single time we have killed him up there. Also fair warning he has been changed and is no longer a weak 40th level anymore. He is around 52-55th now and he runs at about 40% and is very resistant. We were unpleasently surprised with that last night at the tail end of the Maestro fight when he turns tail and runs at 40% making things very unpleasent.

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Silvan
EotF

I know this has been linked before but pointing it out for research sake: http://www.monkly-business.net/forum...ead.php?t=8845

Where in this was posted:

Maestro of Rancor, level 53, instant, 3 day respawn, Plane of Hate

Hate Mini Bosses, ?, instant, 3 day respawn, Plane of Hate

Hand of Maestro***, ?, 12 hours after Maestro, 12 hour respawn, Plane of Hate

** - When you kill Maestro, a weak version of the Hand of Maestro will spawn where you killed Maestro. Then 12 hours after you kill that Hand of Maestro, another Hand of Maestro will respawn in the Maestos spot, and this one is as hard as normal Maestro. The Hand will continue to respawn until Maestro spawns again. Or something like that...

This next link mentions Maestro having a 12-14 hour respawn. The post was made in 2000. I believe when they changed Maestro to be a 3 day spawn they made the little hand spawn with the same timer as the old Maestro so the same hands would flow into the server.

http://www.thesafehouse.org/forums/s...ead.php?t=2852

Respawn rate on Innoruuk is 5 days. Respawn rate on Maestro of Rancor and other static mobs (the ones that spawn in houses) is approximately 12-14 hours. Respawn rate on the wandering mobs is 45 minutes. Wandering mobs have a much lower percentage of armor drops than static mobs, thus, it is important to squeeze as many static mob pulls in the window between wanderers clearing and respawn, as possible.

Boss Mobs - This is Maestro and Inny. Maestro spawns in the far NW corner of house D in front of the organ. Inny is in a room upstairs. Maestro is on the same static timer, while Inny is on a 7 day spawn, so usually just after a server repop. If the server is reset, or the zone crashes, all mobs in Hate are depopped. This is to provide a little safety during reentry. When this happens, the timer for the entire zone starts at 0, so 30 minutes later, all the roamers will pop and the SW corner will pop, then about 8 more and the statics and Maestro will pop. So, what players do is as soon as the server drops, they head in and setup since they only have to dead with the normal roamers and possibly the zone-patrol. They then ask for a zone repop, which the gm will do as long as it is ONE person that asks, not everyone in the zone.

It seems that Maestro was a 12 hour respawn pre- Plane of Hate change, then when he was moved to a 3 day spawn a hand should spawn every 12 hours after.

[Alunova]

Originally Posted by Freakish [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Scars of Velious Release Date: December 5, 2001

Scars of Velious Release Date: December 5, 2000

Might clear up some confusion

[Freakish]

You're right, I thought I copy pasted that like I do everything. I'll just add a little comment to the top of my post saying to not bother reading the wall of text.

It still seems like the change was made from a 12h respawn to a 3 day, and that the 12 hour respawn on the hand was to accomodate the longer spawn on Maestro.

[Alunova]

There is decent evidence that maestro should be 12 hours until Hateplane upgrade, I'll discuss it with the other devs.

Using the same links lists dracholiche as a 1 week spawn until Fearplane is updated, so I did a bit more research on that:

https://web.archive.org/web/20000616...racoliche.html

"7 day respawn"

http://www.monkly-business.net/forum...hp/t-8845.html

"Dracoliche, level 53, 7 days, Plane of Fear"
"Dracoliche****, level 53, instant, 7 day respawn, Plane of Fear"
"**** - I'm not sure if Draco respawns on his own, or only when CT respawns the zone when he spawns. "

http://www.angelfire.com/games/EciRaids/PoFFaQ.html

"Draco spawns once a real-life week. Special Skills: DOT and dragon roar."

http://www.geocities.ws/keylargo60634/pofguide.html

"Cazic and Draco set to one week."

I'm not sure if it will be changed at this point in the timeline, but it's in discussion.

[Freakish]

Here's more evidence he should be a much quicker spawn. They never mention *IF* maestro is up, just if you decide to go for him.

http://www.eqclerics.org/forums/show...maestro+rancor

"If you are going to fight Maestro of Rancor make sure to buff everyone up with all you got."

Following link has a someone talking about how they tried Maestro each time they went up, but left him up at the end because they were tired of killing him.
http://www.eqclerics.org/forums/show...maestro+rancor

My guild was up in hate all last week and got thi guy down to a science. all but once we faught him at his spawn. to bad half his loot had to rot. damn no drop luit and weapons. and he never droped the monk mask. final day we where there we didnt even bother to kill him, only his guards. hes a sucky spawn with **** loot for his difficulty

Old EQ Warrior Epic Walkthrough. Has no mention of Hoshkar dropping scales or tiny little hands.
http://www.angelfire.com/ma2/WeirdKel/warriorepic.html

This time he apparently has nothing better to do then send you traipsing off to hate to obtain the Hand of the Maestro. This is an Uncommon drop off the Maestro of Rancor in Hate. He's easily killable with 18 if you are 55+, and drops the hand every 4th or 5th attempt. He spawns once a day.

Another post discussing how to tackle plane of hate.
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5657

Once inside Hate, the PT gets to work and clears the zone. Once the zone is cleared, or at least partially cleared, the raid leader will decide whether to take on the Maestro of Rancor, an undead bard who inhabits the "organ room". The Maestro drops some bard instruments and weapons, a Monk mask and a few other trinkets. Hes a toughie, and if another monster joins in, it usually spells death for the group.

If the raid is lucky, and Innoruuk is up (despite the fact he can Death Touch too), then the raid leader may decide to take on Innoruuk, which, if they are succesful in destroying, will drop some nice loot
But Inny is on an 8 day spawn timer, so it s a bit of a pain

[Daldaen]

Bump.

Every hate clear should have Maestro involved!