Croesus Guide (Quad/Duo/Solo Methods).

[Iron Tyrone]

Croesus is a giant fungal boss, part of the Croesus Front in the Elder God Wars Dungeon.
 

Croesus is the game's first skilling boss.
Having at least level 80  Construction,  Fishing,  Hunter,  Mining, and  Woodcutting is recommended when engaging the boss, although these are not required.

Rather than relying on Constitution to survive, the player's skilling stats of the above-mentioned their "health".
When any of the skills are lowered to 0 by Croesus's specials, the player is kicked from the fight.
If the player is solo, the run ends, if the player is in a team, they must continue without them. 

Croesus is a SAFE boss.

REQUIRED:
Set your Particle Quality to 'High' in Settings > Graphics > Custom.

 

Gear:
Bring your best Fishing/ Hunter/Mining/Woodcutting tools.
A  Shield of any kind to avoid stuns from Croesus's specials.
A few (4-5)  Super Restore Potions or (2-4)  Flasks to restore drained skills.
Specific skill/role related potions such as Hunter/Mining/Woodcutting/Fishing potions.
 Protean Logs if you do not have a Fyretorch (for burning Sticky Fungus).

Optional;
A Sana's Fyretorch to burn fungus without logs - working.
 Tagga's Corehammer to assist with mining.
Tools augmented (when applicable) with the  Honed perk - mixed results/unsure.

Also optional (I have not confirmed if they increase the material gain rates);
 Volcanic Trapper/Magic Golem/Nature's Sentinel/ Fury Shark outfits.
 Tracker/ Quarrymaster/ Lumberjack/ Call of the Sea auras.

 

Mechanics:
When hit by Croesus' special attacks, your stats will be drained - this can result in losing access to your current tool and/or complete failure when a skill reaches 0 by being drained, remedy this with  Super Restore doses.
Alongside the drained stats, getting hit by a mechanic will raise Croesus's enrage by a small amount - once it hits 100% enrage you lose by default.

The order of Croesus's Special Attacks are as follows:
Red (Woodcutting) Spore Bombs -> Fairy Rings ->  Slime Mould ->
Yellow (Mining) Spore Bombs -> Fungus Fall (Stun) ->  Sticky Fungi ->
Green (Fishing) Spore Bomb -> Fairy Rings ->  Slime Mould ->
Blue (Hunter) Spore Bombs -> Fungus Fall (Stun) ->  Sticky Fungi
and finally alongside the last Sticky Fungi, the  Energy Fungus.

Notes: 
*Avoid Spore Bombs (and their residue), Fairy Ring Teleports, and Slime Moulds.
*Energy Fungi will appear in every quadron of the centre of Croesus' arena every 2 stuns (Fungus Fall (Stun)) and they all share durability/health.
*Failure to clear the Energy Fungi will result in a +45% to Croesus's Enrage.

 

Obstacles:
Small Mushrooms/Fungus Path:
Extremely simplified here to compensate for the lack of mobility skills, it is a straight line - avoid walking on the fungus.

Large Mushrooms/Vaulting Path: 
With your Particles set to 'High' you should see a glow over one obstacle per row, vault that one to avoid your skills being drained.

 

Strategies
Quad/4-man, Duo/2-man, and solo stategies will be listed below.
 

Quad/4-man - courtesy of @Seisen.
It is assumed that any movements done in the Arena are to be done Anti-Clockwise.
Ie; Moving from SW to NE should be done via SE.
Feel free to reference this image linked, with compiled information.

Each part member should be assigned a role of  Fishing,  Hunter,  Mining, or  Woodcutting.
Stand in your corner and wait for the host to start the fight.
When the fight starts;
Gather 15 of your resources and deposit them into your  Storage Spot.
Return to your resource nodes and collect 15 more.
With those 15 in hand, run to the corner diagonal of you (ie; From SW to NE) - this is called a Long Trip.
When you reach that corner, deposit the 15 you hold into that corner's  Statue.
Take the 15 resources left by your teammate from the  Storage Spot nearby.
Run to the next node (ie; now from NE to NW) with those resources - this is called a Short Trip.
Deposit the resources into that  Statue and repair it.
When all  Statues are repaired, wait/prepair to synchronize praying at the  Statues together.
Once you've finished Praying at the statues, go to the centre where Croesus has opened.
Once there, "attack" (skill on) the core to finish the kill.
*It is recommended to only pray AFTER two Energy Fungi cycles for maximum contribution points.
In the case that not all statues are repaired at the same time, simply wait for them to finish it.
It is detrimental to time Praying together.

 

Duo/2-man - courtesy of @Wendt.
For this method, both players in the part are given specific roles.
You must follow the exact pathing listed below.

Player 1's Roles:
 Hunter &  Woodcting.

Player 2's Roles:
 Mining &  Fishing

Player 1 starts the encounter in the  Hunter corner (NW), Player 2 starts at the  Mining corner (SE).
Collect 15 of your Resource and move to the next corner (anti-clockwise).
In this case,  NW goes to  SW and  SE goes to  NE.
Deposit your resources into that corner's Statue and collect 15 from that Corner.
With those 15 Resources in hand, run to the opposite corner/swap corners with your duo.
SW goes to NE, NE goes to SW.
Once you arrive at that corner, deposit the 15 Resource you already collected into the Statue.
 Repair and Pray at your corner's statue and go through the DPS phase.

 

Solo/1-man - courtesy of @Bourne_Sloth.
This method involves intentionally being hit by a Fairy Ring for the forced movement.
This method is NOT recommended for newbies, margin for failure is large.

This can be done with only 2 Statues, but the results can differ - so a third might be needed.
The best possible time for a Solo kill (recorded so far) is an 8:02, which was possible with a lucky Fairy Ring Teleport.

For the solo runs, the pathing is as follows;
Start in the  Mining Corner (South-east), gather 15 of the resources and take them to  Hunter (NW).
Deposit the  Mining resources into the statue and then run to  Fishing (NE).
Gather 15 Fishing Rrsources, deposit them into  Storage Spot, gather another 15 and take them to  Hunter (NW again).
Place those 15 fishing resources into the  Statue, then gather another 15 Hunter resources
 Repair and Pray at the statue (NW) - start "attacking" Croesus when it opens here.
You need to be tick-perfect to get it under half from a single statue.

After that first "DPS Phase" it will teleport you to a random quadron, in any case you need to get to the Woodcutting corner (SW).
Deposit the 15 Hunter Resources (from before you prayed) into the Statue.
Run back to the Fishing corner (NE), gather the Fishing resources from the Storage Spot.
The Fairy Ring Special Attack should activate here, let it hit you and hope it teleports you closer to the obstacles, if not - oh well.
Run back to the Woodcutting Corner (SW), deposit into the Statue,  repair, and then pray at the statue.
Now DPS again, if you fail to kill it then you have to repair another statue, pray at that statue and DPS again.
Best option in this case is to gather 15x  Resources and complete the Fishing Statue (NE).

 

Video Instructions courtesy of: @Noobs Own.

 

Reward Scaling: 
Rewards from Croesus scale with the players' contribution done during the "fight".
More information on Contribution Factor and 'Rolls' can be found here.

Notable Rewards:
Croesus Foultorch, to make Sana's Fyrtorch.
Croesus Sporehammer, to make  Tagga's Corehammer.
Croesus Spore Sack, to make the  Seed bag.
Cryptbloom Helm (incomplete), requires 1,000x Croesus flakes.
Cryptbloom top (incomplete), requires 1,600x Croesus flakes.
Cryptbloom Bottoms (incomplete), requires 1,200x Croesus flakes.
Cryptbloom gloves (incomplete), requires 800x Croesus flakes.
Cryptbloom boots (incomplete), requires 800x Croesus flakes.
Scripture of Bik.
Croesus's enriched root, used to unlock  Little Sus.

Credits to:
@Seisen, @Wendt and @Bourne_Sloth for their assistance with the strategies, and @Noobs Own for the video!

[Zero Two]

huge guide, very helpful gonna add to my notes list

[Diogo Moder]

holy man!!!!!

one of the most detailed and beautiful guides we got there! pretty nice content bro!

 

if you want, we can add a Duolo guide, i can record one of my kills, just to add for that perfect guide, awesome!

[Wendt]

You the best, Tyrone!

[Almost Done]

Thank you T, one more time providing a detailed guide and very helpfull! I'll copy the # from the topic for the notes, easier to tell people to look at it and learn a bit b4 jumping in!

You're always amazing! Thank you again for your time 

 

Cheers<3

[Soulcist]

I've actually never done the one in RuneScape 'cause of how overwhelming it seems. I think this is a pretty solid guide - awesome work.

[Sprout]

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20char

[Pvmlife]

Great guide, I'll use it if I find a team for Croesus

[Iron Tyrone]

Updated with the video guide from @Noobs Own!