Grifolapine

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Grifolapine

Release date	28 November 2011 (Update)
Members	Yes
Combat level	148
XP per kill	846.5 (and 279.3 experience)
Examine text	A prickly creature covered in grifolic fungus. / This grifolapine has been weakened slightly. (When affected by neem oil)
Slayer info
Slayer level	88
Slayer XP	293.4
Assigned by	Chaeldar, Duradel or Lapalok, Kuradal
Combat info LP Max hit 7,400 296 Attack Defence Ranged Magic Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Immune to Poison Stun Deflect Yes Unknown No Attack speed Unknown edit Aggressive Poisonous No No Attack styles Weakness Magic Ranged Water spells

[FAQ] • [doc]

A Grifolapine is a monster found in the Polypore Dungeon on the third level. It requires a Slayer level of 88 to kill, and 60 Magic for the player to receive as a Slayer assignment. They are located in the third level of Polypore Dungeon.

Grifolapines have similar drops to grifolaroos but have much better drop rates for grifolic flakes, the sought after item to create the grifolic set. In addition, they are the only monster that drops the grifolic wand and grifolic shield.

Strategy

“	Grifolapines live in a depths of a cave north-east of the Mage Training Arena. The creatures of that dungeon are coated in toxic fungus, so you should fight them from a distance, and dodge when they charge at you. The fungus helps them repair physical damage, so you might prefer using magical attacks.	”
	— Kuradal

The mushrooms on the platform can be used to hide behind to prevent toxic fungus damage. This monster attacks with Magic most of the time, so Protect from Magic/Deflect Magic will prevent most damage dealt. When using neem oil it will not attack with Magic anymore, but it will use its Ranged attack, hence using Protect from Missiles/Deflect Missiles can be used. It is resistant to Ranged and melee damage, so Magic would be the ideal method of attacking these creatures, as with other monsters.

Unusually enough, these monsters never move when idle. They will only move when they say "Raargh!", which makes them move twice as fast as a player when running. Unless you have very keen senses and use Neem oil instantly, you will take fungal damage. Their fungal damage does low damage (14-22) very fast. This is why you should safespot them, so they won't be able to do that. If they are blocked, they will say *Sigh*, and resume attacking you. Upon saying "Raargh!" and ending with *Sigh*, it skips 1 or 2 of it's battle turns. Their relatively low damage also makes it useful to cast Soul Split on them, as you will hit high enough on them where they do relatively poor damage on the player.

Grifolapines shouldn't be far from their home platforms, unless someone has chased them by attacking them. Four grifolapines can be found in one of their grifolic-infested platforms. It should be easy to trap them, but this is usually not recommended unless you are AFKing. It may be hard to notice their Magic attack, as it may be hard to see it, because it looks as if a Grifolapine does not do anything when it does. Their Magic attack hits harder and quite often, so it is best to constantly use Neem oil on them to prevent this.

Despite having a higher combat level and Slayer level requirement, grifolapines are generally easier to kill than grifolaroos. Because they do not move when idle or jump immediately when you attack them, it is easier to safespot them. In addition, they use their Ranged attack much less frequently than their Magic attack, so if you are praying against Magic while safespotting them, you will take very little damage.

Note: Unlike most creatures that are weak to water spells, these are not weak against magic in general. The only way to effectively kill them is to use water spells. Other spells will miss about 80% of the time.

A grifolapine affected by neem oil.

Recommended Equipment

• Helm: Full Slayer helm/Hexcrest > Virtus mask > Akrisae's hood > Ahrim's hood  > Farseer helm > Helm of neitiznot
• Cape: Completionist cape > Max cape > God cape > Soul wars cape > Ardougne cloak
• Necklace: Arcane stream necklace > Amulet of fury > Demon horn necklace > Amulet of glory
• Top: Virtus robe top > Garb of subjugation > Ganodermic poncho > Akrisae's robe top > Ahrim's robe top
• Bottom: Virtus robe legs > Gown of subjugation > Ganodermic leggings > Akrisae's robe skirt > Ahrim's robe skirt
• Weapon: Chaotic staff > Armadyl battlestaff > Polypore staff > Staff of light
• Boots: Ragefire boots > Infinity boots > Mystic boots
• Gloves: Spellcaster gloves > Barrows gloves > Infinity gloves > Mystic gloves
• Ring: Seers ring (i) > Onyx ring (i) > Dragonstone ring (i) > Lunar ring(i) > Tokkul-Zo > Seers' ring > Beacon ring

Inventory

• Bonecrusher
• 12-18 high level food
• 5 Prayer potions

Note: The full slayer helm and the hexcrest should only be used if on a slayer assignment.

Drops

100% drop

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Charms

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Bones	1	Always	266
	Neem drupe	1–3	Always	Not sold

No charm
80–82%	4%	2–3%	11–12%	0.8–1.2%
Represents a 90% confidence range based on a sample of 6,118 kills. 1 charm is dropped at a time. Add data to the log (requires JavaScript).

Weapons and Armour

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Runes

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Grifolic shield	1	Uncommon	43,159
	Grifolic wand	1	Rare	39,884

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Herbs

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Death rune	8–13	Uncommon	1,856–3,016
	Chaos rune	50–80; 100	Uncommon	7,600–15,200

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Seeds

A total of three seeds will be dropped, one or more of the seeds may be the same.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Grimy guam	1	Uncommon	709
	Grimy marrentill	1	Uncommon	2,307
	Grimy tarromin	1	Uncommon	105
	Grimy harralander	1	Uncommon	741
	Grimy ranarr	1	Uncommon	1,860
	Grimy irit	1	Uncommon	5,008
	Grimy avantoe	1	Uncommon	1,043
	Grimy kwuarm	1	Rare	11,782
	Grimy cadantine	1	Rare	4,322
	Grimy lantadyme	1	Rare	7,551
	Grimy dwarf weed	1	Rare	8,476

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Other drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Avantoe seed	1	Uncommon	375
	Dwarf weed seed	1	Uncommon	822
	Limpwurt seed	1–2	Uncommon	5,207–10,414
	Wildblood seed	1	Uncommon	189
	Belladonna seed	1	Uncommon	1,007
	Jangerberry seed	1–2	Uncommon	79–158
	Strawberry seed	1–2	Uncommon	1,075–2,150
	Tarromin seed	1	Uncommon	137
	Harralander seed	1	Uncommon	196
	Cadantine seed	1	Uncommon	1,438
	Spirit weed seed	1	Uncommon	78,260
	Marrentill seed	1	Uncommon	179
	Irit seed	1	Uncommon	1,018
	Watermelon seed	1	Uncommon	3,590
	Kwuarm seed	1	Uncommon	12,857
	Snapdragon seed	1	Uncommon	293
	Toadflax seed	1	Uncommon	9,872
	Ranarr seed	1	Uncommon	976
	Torstol seed	1	Uncommon	540
	Whiteberry seed	1	Uncommon	136
	Bittercap mushroom spore	1	Uncommon	1,768
	Lantadyme seed	1	Uncommon	726

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Trivia

• A grifolapine is shown in the RuneScape Cinematic Trailer. It doesn't do anything but stare at Ozan, though.
• Grifolapines are one of the few monsters in RuneScape that will never move from their spawn point, the others being the Spiritual mages (Bandos), and Ancient mages.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Polypore spore	1–300	Common	4–1,200
	Grifolic flake	1–100	Common	423–42,300
	Gorajian mushroom	5 (noted)	Common	20,590
	Anagogic ort	20	Common	Not sold
	Vial of water	1	Uncommon	96
	Swamp tar	3	Uncommon	345
	Eye of newt	1	Uncommon	10
	Snape grass	15–24 (noted)	Uncommon	2,010–3,216
	Spin ticket	1	Rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	Very rare	Not sold