Last Updated on by Samuel Franklin
Optimise your Maestro build with this secret class guide to the powerful account support character. Expanding on the Journeyman theme the Maestro (or Mman) has a difficult quest to unlock and has unique account wide talents that can be confusing to use for new players. This guide details how to get Maestro, tips for the Maestro quest and the best talents for skilling, rare drops or crystal farming.
Table of Contents:
– How To Get Maestro (Secret Subclass)
– Maestro Build – Skilling
– Maestro Build – Fighting (Active & AFK)
– Maestro Crystal Farming Tips
How To Get Maestro (Secret Subclass)
The challenging Maestro unlock requirements are detailed on the Idleon Secrets Wiki page. This quest is available in World 2 but will likely require progress into World 3 before being able to complete it.
The Idleon Maestro quest requires:
- High Journeyman levels in World 1 and World 2 skills
- Reach the final W2 Snelbie map unlocked (Djonnuttown)
- Defeat the Biggie Hours miniboss with 1 HP, players take no damage in this fight by having 594 defence.
The skill levels and defence requirements are the hardest challenge and I recommend the following:
Skill Experience
To improve Journeyman skilling experience use these boosts to reach the required mining (32), chopping (33), smithing (35), fishing (23), alchemy (25) and catching (25) skill levels.
| Skill Experience Source | Notes |
|---|---|
 Journeyman Talents – Happy Dude |
A key source of skilling experience that applies to all of the skills we need levels for Maestro. |
 Black Pearls |
Available from the Killroy Skull Shop each pearl gives 20% of a skill level up to level 30. These should be saved for the higher skill levels as they are percentage based and always provide 20%. |
 EXP Balloons & Time Candy |
Available from in game events, quests and Killroy if you have a stockpile of these they can be worth using to obtain the Maestro class. |
 Skilling Foods |
For mining, chopping, fishing and catching using skilling foods can significantly boost your experience gain per hour. To conserve on food players can equip 1 food per AFK session which provides the same result as multiple skilling food. |
 Orion the Great Horned Owl’s Feather Enterprise |
The World 1 incremental owl located at the Grand Owl Perch map provides skill experience to help progress different skills with all of your characters. |
 Prayers |
If you’ve reached wave 51 of the Goblin Gorefest tower defence mini game in World 3 then the Unending Energy prayer is a notable boost to skilling experience although it maxes your AFK time to 10hours. |
Defence
While players can complete the 1HP Biggie Hours fight required to unlock Maestro with a bow to stay safe this can take a long time and one mistake requires players to reset. Reaching 594 defence instead means you’ll take no damage when touching this mini boss and can easily finish the quest. The best sources of defence at this stage for players are:
| Defence Source | Notes |
|---|---|
 Poppy the Kangaroo Mouse’s Fish Pond |
The World 2 incremental game is unlocked by purchasing a Secret Map from the World 2 vendor. This mechanic is a major source of defence and also helps with AFK gains and fishing boosts. |
 The Upgrade Vault |
Purchasing the sixth upgrade in the Upgrade Vault can add 100 defence and eventually 150 with the Vault Mastery talent. |
 Equipment |
Use the highest armour defence possible and upgrade them with World 3 upgrade stones purchased from the shop. |
 Talents |
The Bucklered Up talent in the beginner talent tab provides defence. |
   Cards |
Cards like the Oak Tree, Forest Soul and Sheepie all provide defence bonuses. |
 Golden Food |
Equip any Golden Meat Pies you have available. |
 Alchemy |
The FMJ bubble in the Power Cauldron (bubble 9) can be levelled with Fruit Flies for flat and percentage gains to defence. |
  Stamps |
The Shield (W1 Shop) and Buckler Stamp (W3 Snouts quest) add defence. |
 Star Signs |
Fatty Doodoo and Ned Kelly both provide defence and are along the primary star sign progression path so players will need to unlock them. |
 Obols |
Pop Obols dropped from Gigafrogs provide some defence and are an important obol given the drop rate. If available players can also use any Amarok Obols they have. |
Idleon Maestro Build – Skilling
Skilling will be a major aspect of your Maestro as you want to keep your skill levels (W1, W2 and W3 skills only) ahead of other characters as this boosts efficiency and experience gained through the left and right hand Maestro talents. A pure skilling build uses this priority order:
| Talent | Effect | Notes |
|---|---|---|
 Bliss N Chips |
+Max level for Happy Dude & Lucky Horseshoe | Happy Dude has no diminishing returns (1% per level) and is a critical boost to skilling experience so raising the maximum level is important. |
 Skilliest Statue |
Higher statue bonuses for EhExPee, Kapow and Feasty | EhExPee and Feasty statues both having useful benefits to skilling. |
 Maestro Transfusion |
+% Skill EXP Gain -% Skill Efficiency |
This is useful if you have over 100% chance on a resource node as behind 100% you do not earn additional experience. As a new Maestro you won’t be using this often but eventually it will be critical to maximising experience gain so level this slowly based on your account specifics. |
 Printer Go Brrr |
Print hours of printer samples (W3) instantly | I recommend players put this on a skilling preset as you’ll have a higher number of spare points compared to your combat preset. Activating this daily can be a huge boost to resource gains to be invested into other Idleon progression mechanics like alchemy or stamps. |
 One Step Ahead |
+ Talent Points for Voidwalker | Provides void talent points which are used in your next job advancement tab (the Voidwalker). Prior to this the talent has no effect and can be skipped. |
 Right Hand of Action |
+% Skill Efficiency for other characters if lower skill level than Maestro | A key benefit to having your Maestro maintain higher skill levels players will want to max this talent to enhance their other characters when skilling and I recommend having this on your Maestro skilling preset. |
 Left Hand of Learning |
+% Skill Experience for other characters if lower skill level than Maestro | Similar to the above although this only has a niche use for when you need skilling experience on your other characters. Be careful not to out level your Maestro in that skill though. |
 Jman Was Better |
+ Talent Points for Journeyman | Useful if players have spare points and need more for the Journeyman talents instead. |
Idleon Maestro Build – Fighting (Active & AFK)
Despite being a skilling master the Maestro also has a fighting role when active or AFK. Active fighting (where Idleon is open and players use the Auto feature) is critical to the Maestro skill levels with Crystal Countdown rewarding players for crystal monster kills by lowering the experience required for a skill level.
Traditional AFK fighting is also effective where the Maestro can hunt for rare drops such as Woodular Circles and Nuget Cakes or farm monster cards instead. Combine these roles together into a combat talent preset with the following priority order:
| Talent | Effect | Notes |
|---|---|---|
 Crystal Countdown |
Killing a crystal or giant lowers experience required for a random skill | A critical skill to active gameplay to help keep your Maestro ahead in levels that should be a priority unless you are never able to play active. Use our crystal farming guide to optimise this skill. |
 Skillage Damage |
+% Damage for every 5 levels of your lowest level skill | The primary damage boost of the Maestro based on your lowest level skill from W1 to W3 skills (try level all skills equally). |
 Colloquial Containers |
Raises max level of Sleepin On The Job based on alchemy Lotto Skills bubble level | This talent is limited by your Lotto Skills (alchemy) bubble level so this should be the same level as that and never higher. This allows players to invest more points in the Journeyman talent that increases AFK gains. |
 Triple Jab |
Punches now hit a 3rd time and do extra damage | I recommend 1 point here initially as it will boost your active damage notably with the third melee hit. Extra levels can then be used as necessary to maximise your active kill speed (aim for 1 hit crystal kills). |
| One Step Ahead |
+ Talent Points for Voidwalker | Similar to the skilling preset players will need Voidwalker points on their fighting preset. |
| Skilliest Statue |
Higher statue bonuses for EhExPee, Kapow and Feasty | A lower priority for your fighting preset for the boost to Kapow (critical damage) and Feasty (Food effect) statues which can boost your damage slightly. |
| Bliss N Chips |
+Max level for Happy Dude & Lucky Horseshoe | A low priority for excess points only to increase the level of Lucky Horseshoe for extra LUK that primarily gives accuracy and damage to the Maestro. |
 Coin Toss |
Throws a coin that deals damage based on the amount of money you have | A low priority this skill must be actively used but can be useful when players actively farm bosses for extra damage. |
