Fungal mage

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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. This infestation does not reduce your Prayer points, contrary to popular belief. It should be noted that they are weak for their level, with a moderately low max hit and accuracy. Players with fair magical defence could tank their attacks with ease. 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 than the attacks from the magic attacks themselves. It seems that even with good defence its normal magical attacks still cause more damage, but as the damage is small either way it is partially up to personal reference. If the player wish to go for the infection method, they must stay in melee range and not use neem oil (Players should note however that when neem oil is used on a fungal mage it stops attacking for a few seconds).

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.

Fungal mages can drop one unnoted Gorajian mushroom, which can extend trips. Depending on a player's magic level, they can kill 120-200 Fungal mages per hour.

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.

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

A player fighting a fungal mage.
Slot Equipment
Helmet

Full Slayer helm (if on task) > Hexcrest (if on task) > Virtus mask> Ganodermic visor> Hood of Subjugation > Ahrim's hood > Grifolic visor > Fungal visor > Mystic Robe Set(t)> Battle hood

Body

Virtus robe top> Ganodermic poncho> Garb of Subjugation > Ahrim's robe top> Grifolic poncho > Dagon'hai robe top > Fungal poncho > Mystic robe top > Battle robe top

Legs Virtus robe bottom> Ganodermic leggings > Gown of Subjugation > Ahrim's robe skirt > Grifolic leggings > Dagon'hai robe bottom > Fungal leggings > Mystic robe bottom > Battle robe bottom
Shield Surgebox > Arcane spirit shield > Farseer kiteshield/Ward of subjugation > Mages' book > Sacred clay shield (magic) > Tome of frost > Illuminated unholy book > Illuminated ancient book > Void knight deflector
Weapon Armadyl Battlestaff (using Storm of Armadyl)> Polypore staff (using its built-in spell) Staff of light > Mystic lava staff > Lava battlestaff
Gloves Spellcaster gloves/Gloves of Subjugation > Barrows gloves > Infinity gloves > Regen Bracelet > Mystic gloves
Boots Boots of Subjugation > Ragefire boots > Infinity boots > Mystic boots
Cape Completionists cape> Max cape> God cape > Cape of Accomplishment > Obsidian cape
Neck Arcane stream necklace > Saradomin's Hiss > Third-age amulet > Amulet of Fury > Amulet of Glory
Ring

Seers' ring (i) > Onyx ring (i) > Dragonstone ring (i) > Tokkul-Zo > Seers' ring

Aura Reverence

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 a 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.

A fungal mage affected by neem oil.

Drops

100% drop

Item Quantity Rarity GE Market Price
Accursed ashes Accursed ashes 1 1 Always 400
Neem drupe 1–3 1 Always Not sold

Charms

Template:Charm:Fungal mage

Essence and runes

Item Quantity Rarity GE Market Price
Chaos rune Chaos rune 15–40 2 Common 1,290–3,440
Pure essence Pure essence 25 (noted) 2 Common 2,675

Seeds

Item Quantity Rarity GE Market Price
Tarromin seed Tarromin seed 1 3 Uncommon 7
Ranarr seed Ranarr seed 1 3 Uncommon 2,935
Wildblood seed Wildblood seed 1 3 Uncommon 2
Poison ivy seed Poison ivy seed 1 3 Uncommon 31
Spirit weed seed Spirit weed seed 1 3 Uncommon 3,869
Limpwurt seed Limpwurt seed 1 3 Uncommon 147
Cactus seed Cactus seed 1 3 Uncommon 20
Harralander seed Harralander seed 1 3 Uncommon 4
Whiteberry seed Whiteberry seed 1 3 Uncommon 24
Strawberry seed Strawberry seed 1 3 Uncommon 92
Marrentill seed Marrentill seed 1 3 Uncommon 3
Jangerberry seed Jangerberry seed 1 3 Uncommon 2
Bittercap mushroom spore Bittercap mushroom spore 1 3 Uncommon 7
Belladonna seed Belladonna seed 1 3 Uncommon 29
Irit seed Irit seed 1 3 Uncommon 100
Kwuarm seed Kwuarm seed 1 3 Uncommon 1,042
Toadflax seed Toadflax seed 1 4 Rare 989
Avantoe seed Avantoe seed 1 4 Rare 1,306
Lantadyme seed Lantadyme seed 1 4 Rare 28,328
Snapdragon seed Snapdragon seed 1 4 Rare 26,078
Dwarf weed seed Dwarf weed seed 1 4 Rare 43,732
Watermelon seed Watermelon seed 1 4 Rare 1,861
Torstol seed Torstol seed 1 4 Rare 274,040
Cadantine seed Cadantine seed 1 4 Rare 997

Other

Item Quantity Rarity GE Market Price
Potato cactus Potato cactus 1, 8 (noted) 2 Common 999–7,992
Snape grass Snape grass 4 (noted) 2 Common 1,080
Limpwurt root Limpwurt root 1–2 (noted) 2 Common 844–1,688
Gorajian mushroom Gorajian mushroom 1 3 Uncommon 61
Polypore spore Polypore spore 1–100 3 Uncommon 19–1,900
Fungal flake Fungal flake 1–90 3 Uncommon 234–21,060
Spin ticket 1 4 Rare Not sold
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 1–3 2 Common Not sold
Eye of newt Eye of newt 1–2 2 Common 9–18
Swamp tar Swamp tar 1–3 2 Common 36–108
Fungal flake Fungal flake 1–84 3 Uncommon 234–19,656
Ganodermic flake Ganodermic flake 1–2 3 Uncommon 353–706
Polypore spore Polypore spore 1–75 3 Uncommon 19–1,425
Vial of water Vial of water 1–2 3 Uncommon 17–34
Grimy harralander Grimy harralander 1–2 3 Uncommon 385–770
Grimy ranarr Grimy ranarr 1–2 3 Uncommon 3,508–7,016
Grimy marrentill Grimy marrentill 1–2 4 Rare 41–82
Grimy guam Grimy guam 1–2 4 Rare 521–1,042
Grimy tarromin Grimy tarromin 1–2 4 Rare 56–112
Grimy irit Grimy irit 1–2 4 Rare 1,496–2,992
Grimy cadantine Grimy cadantine 1–2 4 Rare 1,336–2,672
Grimy kwuarm Grimy kwuarm 1–2 4 Rare 2,902–5,804
Grimy avantoe Grimy avantoe 1–2 4 Rare 2,877–5,754
Grimy lantadyme Grimy lantadyme 1–2 4 Rare 6,002–12,004
Grimy dwarf weed Grimy dwarf weed 1–2 4 Rare 7,525–15,050
Snapdragon seed Snapdragon seed 1–2 5 Very rare 26,078–52,156

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 magi have a very fast respawn rate; as soon as they are killed, within 5 seconds they will respawn.
  • Despite being the highest levelled monster to drop Fungal flakes, it rarely seems to drop them. This may be an oversight from Jagex.
  • 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.