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Fungal mage

Release date	28 November 2011 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	120
XP per kill	Unknown edit
Slayer level	1
Slayer XP	120
Assigned by	Chaeldar, Sumona, Duradel or Lapalok, Kuradal
Always drops	Accursed ashes, Neem drupe
Examine text	A creature of animated earth, infested with fungus. / This fungal mage has been weakened slightly. (When affected by neem oil)
Combat stats LP Max hit 1200 114 Attack Defence Ranged Magic Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Other Immune to Poison? Immune to Stun? Yes Unknown edit Attack Speed Speed 6 (Interval: 2.4 seconds) Aggressive? Poisonous? No No (but the infestation) Attack style Weaknesses Magic Magic

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The fungal mage is a monster found in the Polypore Dungeon.

If players come closer than one square away from it, it will infest them, dealing fast hits of 2 or 3 life points. However, this can be prevented by using neem oil on it; also, this infestation has a chance to reduce your Prayer points. It should be noted that they are very weak for their level. They have a moderately low max hit and terrible accuracy. Players with fair magical defence are strongly recommended to tank their attacks. Players with a low Magic level and poor magic defensive bonuses however, should go near the fungal mage and allow it to infest them; it would be difficult to break even while using Protect from Magic/Deflect Magic, and the damage from infestation is much less then the attacks from the magic attacks themselves.

Melee and range attacks will be severely reduced to almost 1/10th of what the attack would have done, unless a dwarf multicannon is used, which is highly recommended due to the fact that it does a large amount of damage (maximum 300) and the mages seem to have an instant respawn rate.

Players can kill these without 50 Magic, but they will not get them as a Slayer task until they have the level. It should be noted that fungal magi are incredibly strong against melee and Ranged, as with all other creatures found in the Polypore dungeon. A good way of training on these if lacking coins is to use a salamander on magic attack mode. Another way is to use the spell fire bolt, as with chaos gauntlets and an arcane stream necklace, it can deal a nice amount of damage comparable to fire blast, and chaos runes are inexpensive.

When sprinkling neem oil they will drop an item which is listed in a separate drops table. Items include such as swamp tar, neem drupe, eye of newt, or a vial of water.

Killing fungal magi can be quite profitable, due to their valuable drops such as fungal flakes, potato cactus, snape grass, pure essence, chaos runes and seeds.

Strategies

Inventory should include some food or other source of healing, runes for spells, an emergency teleport, and a cannon/cannonballs if applicable. You may also wish to take an Prayer urn for collecting the ashes.

An easy way to get a few safe hits in on the mage is to attack him once, then immediately sprinkle neem oil on the mage. This will give you about three safe hits before the mage starts to attack you.

Drops

100% drop

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Accursed ashes	1	1 Always	404
	Neem drupe	1–3	1 Always	Not sold

Charms

Charm drop percentages

No charms
79–80%	5–6%	11–12%	2%	1%

Represents 90% confidence range, based on a sample of 14,108 kills.
1 charm is dropped at a time.

Please add to the log (only if 50 or more creatures killed).

Essence and runes

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Chaos rune	15–40	2 Common	615–1,640
	Pure essence	25 (noted)	2 Common	2,125

Seeds

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Tarromin seed	1	3 Uncommon	4
	Ranarr seed	1	3 Uncommon	1,019
	Wildblood seed	1	3 Uncommon	36
	Spirit weed seed	1	3 Uncommon	359
	Limpwurt seed	1	3 Uncommon	971
	Cactus seed	1	3 Uncommon	26
	Harralander seed	1	3 Uncommon	9
	Whiteberry seed	1	3 Uncommon	28
	Strawberry seed	1	3 Uncommon	359
	Marrentill seed	1	3 Uncommon	12
	Jangerberry seed	1	3 Uncommon	3
	Bittercap mushroom spore	1	3 Uncommon	10
	Belladonna seed	1	3 Uncommon	33
	Irit seed	1	3 Uncommon	74
	Kwuarm seed	1	3 Uncommon	363
	Toadflax seed	1	4 Rare	702
	Avantoe seed	1	4 Rare	1,890
	Lantadyme seed	1	4 Rare	34,922
	Snapdragon seed	1	4 Rare	2,196
	Dwarf weed seed	1	4 Rare	38,269
	Watermelon seed	1	4 Rare	2,010
	Torstol seed	1	4 Rare	78,509
	Cadantine seed	1	4 Rare	2,354

Other

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Potato cactus	8 (noted)	2 Common	5,048
	Snape grass	4 (noted)	2 Common	1,348
	Limpwurt root	1–2 (noted)	2 Common	1,128–2,256
	Gorajian mushroom	1	2 Common	45
	Polypore spore	1–100	3 Uncommon	3–300
	Fungal flake	1–90	3 Uncommon	2–180
	Starved ancient effigy	1	5 Very rare	Not sold

Neem oil drops

Note: The herbicide from Daemonheim does work with these herb drops.

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Neem drupe	1–2	2 Common	Not sold
	Eye of newt	1–2	2 Common	8–16
	Swamp tar	1–3	2 Common	271–813
	Fungal flake	1–75	3 Uncommon	2–150
	Ganodermic flake	1–2	3 Uncommon	286–572
	Polypore spore	1–75	3 Uncommon	3–225
	Vial of water	1–2	3 Uncommon	20–40
	Grimy harralander	1–2	3 Uncommon	652–1,304
	Grimy ranarr	1–2	3 Uncommon	2,160–4,320
	Grimy marrentill	1–2	4 Rare	44–88
	Grimy guam	1–2	4 Rare	539–1,078
	Grimy tarromin	1–2	4 Rare	249–498
	Grimy irit	1–2	4 Rare	1,743–3,486
	Grimy cadantine	1–2	4 Rare	2,507–5,014
	Grimy kwuarm	1–2	4 Rare	2,471–4,942
	Grimy avantoe	1–2	4 Rare	4,128–8,256
	Grimy lantadyme	1–2	4 Rare	7,850–15,700
	Grimy dwarf weed	1–2	4 Rare	8,195–16,390
	Snapdragon seed	1–2	5 Very rare	2,196–4,392

Trivia

• They may be related to earth warriors, as their examine option states "A creature of animated earth infested by fungus", and the only animated earth monsters in high amounts is the earth Warrior.
• When the fungal mage is assigned for a Slayer task, the Slayer masters call them fungal magi (because the plural of "mage" is "magi" since the word has Latin origin).
• Fungal mages have a very fast respawn rate; as soon as they are killed, within 5 seconds they will respawn.
• When the fungal mage is assigned as a Slayer task, when you block it you can also choose the option to block all monsters in the Polypore dungeon.
• When neem oil is scattered on them their back loses its bright green colour. When the effect has worn off they return back to their normal green colour.