Fungal mage

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 dealing 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 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. Players assigned these as slayer tasks can gain around 100-200k per task (not including spores/flakes) from the commonly dropped herb secondaries and Pure essence.

When sprinkling neem oil they will drop an item which is not listed in the Drops. items such as; swamp tar, neem drupe, eye of newt, polypore spore.(More to be added)



100% drop

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Essence and runes

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Other

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Trivia
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 Greek origin).
 * They might somewhat resemeble 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.