Use "Croesus" friendschat to find a group - Clicking the boss core when the particles are red WILL HEAL THE BOSS. if they are yellow/green you gain bonus damage! *these colours will be changed* twitter.com/JagexShrew/status/1456236103728570369?t=HDkO4RlVCiQAGG4AUDMwYg&s=19 - Crystal mask can used to negate a single hit each time used at Croesus. - You can also spam surge or Surge bladed dive in a single tick to cross the field fast. - The sana's fyrtorch or Orthen furnace core can be used instead of protean logs. - Soups can be used to increase resource gathering efficiency (example: runescape.wiki/w/Fungal_algae_soup)
Due to limited time, I wasn’t able to also upload/share my thoughts on the boss. I would rather have a guide out to help you guys struggling with the boss than to share my opinion, which is something I can always do later. I hope to make a video sharing my thoughts on the boss tomorrow. In short: The boss isn’t that exciting, but it seems to be a fun experience once you know what you’re doing and if you’ve got a team full of people (ON VOICECHAT), otherwise the boss fight is complete garbage. Avoid public instances at all costs. They should add some kind of mechanic to reduce the enrage because it’s way too punishing to do with randoms.
I don't know if it's my Iphone or mobile, but I tried this boss once and the app crashed. Will try the boss again later on my PC, so thanks for the guide, I would have been one of those clueless fools otherwise.
For anyone wondering a day later, have been doing world 68 public encounters and have a close to 100 % win rate in less than 03:40. Everyone is having a good time with this boss and rewards are decent. Haven't seen a book of bik drop yet..
Relying on a team absolutely ruined this, what were they thinking?? I would understand if there was a decent grouping mechanic for bosses but in the current state of the game, within a month it'll be hard to even find 8 people willing to do this.
In the last phase, with the opened core, clicking on red particles will heal it (so don't do that), clicking on the yellow/green ones gives it more damage.
Some tips to help avoid Croesus' attack: Croesus has an attack animation for all it's attacks ( Croesus placing his arms on his abdomen/ ground) which gives you a much longer heads up to it's attack. You'll have to be playing RuneScape in high resolution with freedom camera zoomed out fully to be able to see it though. Croesus also follows a fixed attack pattern so having a caller call out it's attacks (as Croesus does his animation) will help a lot. Getting hit will reduce your contribution score.
Boss would be fine if u didn’t need so many people… or friends 100% of the time to kill this boss. Randoms are so bad hard to find a decent group. Or a group that can even kill the boss IMO.
@@davidgibson2284 no but it shouldn’t be next to impossible ESPECIALLY because it was designed to be grouped. Jagex should be smart enough to know that 90% of players WANT to try new content but not all of them have friends or a clan to do groupable bosses. It should NOT be this tough/unforgiving with ransoms. The fight is simply overtuned
He showed that way for people who don't have the quests done for the upgraded pont ring, Normal pont ring wont let you tele. Its just a ring that lets you go through the barriers for arch.
Particles Red heals boss 2.5k Green poisons boss 1k White poisons boss 500 If you look at the timer the mechanics are at certain times so can be avoided easier. The orange blobs can be negated with the crystal mask ancient spell
I think the thing I don’t like about this boss is the reliance on everyone’s support to get the kill. If one person slips up, it’ll almost always cost the kill unless you’re really good. I wish the kills were based more on individual participation like Wintertoldt
I loved so much the idea of a skilling boss but trying to kill it on a public instance is chaos, especially because the rage bar is so punishing with more players, only got 2 kills so far and it was pure luck
Pretty sure he heals if you bring unrotted supplies to his core, he uses it as food, so if you have extra rot it before running to middle. Also you don't need powerburst, if you Bladed dive and surge in the same second a few steps outside of the minefield, you will cross the entire thing!
i love that you made a guide so quick! it does look confusing yes but it is new, i like the idea! i just think 80% of the people complain are people that boss all the time... and tbh its not really aimed at them.. its aimed at skillers, maybe it shouldn't be it GWD3 but it still love to see other skilling bosses, maybe Solo, Duo or 4 Players max just so you don't have to rely on as many people, But i love to see one using Agility, Thieving , Construction and Firemaking
Tried it a few times today. First on a populated world in a public instance and then with a team of friends/clan members. The difference in experience or enjoyment between the two is night and day. At this time, you really do need a decent team of four to eight players to succeed and have fun. Now, that might change as more and more people get familiarized with the mechanics thanks to videos like this. We will have to wait and see :) ALSO, it feels a lot like a mini-game lol.
Sadly I beleive this boss is a fail. Not only that the problem with a group on boss is that eventually it will become dead content due to not many wanting to do it.
@SumOfIt that’s way too harsh. The boss has a fantastic design. HOWEVER, it was a terrible idea to have such harsh mechanics hinging on the trust of randoms. THAT is the crime. Either improve matchmaking, or make the damage/stat drain less
wish the boss wasnt exclusive to high lvl skillers, they had an oppurtunity here to make a skilling boss for all walks of players which would have improved the new player perception. could have done some as simple as adding tiered fights for 40s skills, 60s and 80s with tiered loot and xp rates, seems like its not as accesible espicially if your lookin for a non pub team
@@Yourpolice69 Just means the t90 equipment prices will be up a bit as the drops will be localized into the ones you know, are actually working in goddamn synch with each other. Hopefully as time goes on some people will learn patience instead of being hardcore solo mode.
I think they need to realise not everyone can find/get dedicated groups to do stuff like this. I wouldn't even complain if they made a soloable version with lower drop rates and less loot just so I can do the boss.
@@NoU-wc5ny If we're going to go off of the concept that every mmo has content that requires groups to complete why don't we use the same concept as other MMOs as well then we're there are tiers to each boss with LFR/Normal/Heroic rewards. And by that I mean timegating the release of Heroic rewards so players at the higher tier can't complete them unless they beat the lower tiered content. Runescape isn't anything like other MMOs It's quite common for other MMOs to introduce ways of players being able to complete it whether they are solo or grouped. As shown by the WoW LFR system, the content is seriously pruned and nerfed but rewards are considerably less value.
The boss is incredibly boring, and playing in public instances is an utter waste of time. Not making it solo able pretty much made it dead on arrival if not for the rewards.
I tried this boss with my clan (and some random players) and had so much fun, even though we didn't get a kill (we were going in pretty much blind). I don't think this boss is boring at all, and I like that it's not (yet?) soloable. RuneScape is an MMORPG after all, there's way too much solo content in this game and a big lack of socialization compared to other popular games within the genre. Honestly, people need to learn to have fun again. I laughed my ass off when I got stuck inside Croesus, not knowing about this bug yet, instead of rant how everything is ruined etc. People focus way too much on the winning aspect of the game instead of on the fun aspect.
dunno if people said so in other comments but, wait for 2:20 and the middle spawned mushrooms they give huge bonus contribution points and thus extra big loot (mostly for public lobbies spread the word)
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Cinderbanes are extremely redunant. Per player they only do around 3k damage to the boss, which is minimal going by both the total health of the boss, as well as the rate of damage Croesus takes when the team is chewing down the core node. You don't even shave half a second off a kill using cinderbanes. On top of that, you'd generally just want the full Skilling + Construction set bonus, rather than waste a slot on cinderbanes. Also, you ALWAYS need 2x 15 of each resource for the statues, and ALWAYS just need 10 rotten fungi to rot a corpse. This isn't changed in group sizes. 3:10 - Lighting a fire was a wrong interpretation of 'using logs'. Lighting a fire actually does nothing, you only need to click on the sticky fungi below you once, which already consumes the logs.
Hey i would like to learn croesus, but reading all these comments about public teams being chaos i don’t wanna add to that😜 I’d like it if you could teach me, reach out! I spreak Dutch as well. Edit: my in-game name is Lacriimaa, i’ll keep my pm’s open
@@ProtoxxGaming I was watching an Init Yeah video from two months ago and In the video he was doing some Gwd bosses and he said I can't break down each boss mechanic because It would take so long so what I suggest you do Is go on Yt and search and I'm sure someone will have a guide up. Hell Protoxx probably has one on every boss because that guy never seems to miss one.😂😂😂😂
Being in sync is so important for this encounter. I tried explaining to my clanmates that if you pray at the statues at the same time, it will just quadruple the amount of time we can attack Croesus. We still got a few kills, though. The most crucial aspect of this strategy is understanding that the skilling area you start at it with a partner, you need to gather 15+ resources each, deplete the node entirely, then continue on to the next two COUNTERCLOCKWISE statues, which will require the resources you just gathered from your starting location. If everyone does this, all the statues will have the required resources to be repaired and prayed at within the first couple of minutes or so. Don't focus on what everyone else is doing, because thinking of this individually, and your own individual movement, will make this so much easier. If everyone is on the same page with what they need to do, this boss is cake.
Have public instances improved or am I better off looking for a team? I'd like to think that it's been enough time for the general player base to be able to carry noobs, unless new players vastly outweigh the experienced players. I know that in oldschool skill bosses, the only real penalty for clueless teammates is usually that they don't get any rewards, they don't always drag the whole team down as long as the majority know what they're doing. Is this boss like that, or can just one moron screw it up for everyone? Or is the majority of public instances still plagued with a constant flow of newcomers, making carrying impossible?
I love that this boss has taught me that there are still so many adults in this world that can't or won't follow a guide or an instruction. Hence why there's so much failed encounters, people just don't want to co operate with other people.
It's outright sad there's far too many arrogant and complacent people addicted to instant gratification out there who do not have any patience for puzzle solving and group work. Kinda like in SAO Abridged where the main villain in part of his rant lambasts people adamantly refusing to work together.
@@RandoGrunt Hundred percent agree. In fact, decided not to let it get me down and got together a group of random 6-7 people and we did just fine. not perfect but we got 5/6 kills.
@@Thebt7 Very and hope ya'll added each other to your friends list incase the urge for you all rises to do it again. I am hopeful over time this does get people to be a bit more social with their mates or stop playing with public chat: off all the time. Reminds me of previous group bosses like ROT6 and Vorago that do require some teamwork and mini-games like Barbarian Assault.
I just feel like this boss doesn’t fit in with the whole elder godwars dungeon they should have made 4 combat bosses, a fifth new group boss, Similar to aod for the dungeon boss, and then for rs3s first ever skilling boss, took the time to fix the matchmaking system we have currently, and then release this. How difficult is it to make a matchmaking system for these guys and be voice connected. Seems like every other game manages to make them just fine. (And cmon you know these lobbies would be absolutely hilarious) @Jagex, give us something fun!!!!
i agree i dont think im going to even do this boss it doesnt look enjoyable at all it looks more like a chore. Im going to stick to the arch glacor for now
Poorly done skilling boss unfortunately. Imagine suggesting a group of 8 but one person not knowing what they're doing in a public lobby can ruin the kill for everyone. Osrs did skilling bosses better and that dissapoints me greatly
There was a key term you used in this video "it's simple as long as you have a coordinated team of people". That right there is the problem with this boss! Its easy for people to say , "get some friends or a clan" but it's not that simple. This boss is complicated and if you make a mistake it's over. Other group bosses like AOD or yakamaru can still be killed even if someone messes up. The public instances are HORRIFIC. Wasted nearly 3 hours... They need to set specific amounts for encounters (such as public instances with a max group size of 8)
PSA: If you're 8-manning this boss, you don't actually need to do the rotting. You still need to deplete the creatures for the extra damage, but if you're going quickly enough, you'll get the boss down before any of the creatures regenerate fully without having done the rotting. If you're practicing, though, the rotting is still necessary.
The fact I can't solo this and need to have a group is the reason I lost interest after 1 try for this boss. Sad, since I was looking forward to this since I'm not a boss killer, but a skiller. Thought this would be great for me. But I rather do my stuff on my own. So back to skilling and catching up with my quests then.
ammount of recources needed is NOT based on group size. its 15 of each 2 types needed per statue. so 30 total per statue. this is the same solo and with 10 player teams. also the process bar isn't rly enrage. its just % til u lose the kill
Making solo or duo a viable option will actually make players return to this boss. Everyone I know did a couple kills and said screw this nonsense haha.
@@ericweinzettle5010 ah dam yer is there any seren spell that's hells been on os for past few years but still enjoy rs3 now and again anything post mining and smiting rework not to sure on)
Unfortunately I also found out that some groups on discord are also cancer. Even if you point out one or two mechanics your called an elitist, by elitist claiming to have made bills from the boss already who are struggling to get kills. This is RS.
Why do people keep saying this boss is "very easy" and "very simple"? Like obviously every boss is simple enough to understand with a bit of effort, but this is definitely more complicated than the first two gwd3 bosses
you say you need level 80+ in those skills, but everyone tells me you need level 88? is this true or not. I guess I should just try but im in the 70s for most of those skillls atm.
Wish it was possible to solo Having to rely on a team is a sure-fire way to ruin a bossing experience Honestly, this is the first real disappointment with Elder God Wars Dungeon Kerapac is punishing as all hell, but if you know what you're doing and have a few mil to drop on ability upgrades (double surge has saved my ass more times than I can count) it's a really fun boss. Arch-Glacor is a great gateway boss that the game has always needed. Toggling mechanics? Whoever came up with that deserves a promotion. Croesus is just kinda...bad. A poorly-made boss with mechanics that are too punishing, tedious, and not at all intuitive. And being un-solo-able just drags it down even further. I hope Ful's boss (and whatever the secret superboss ends up being -- fingers crossed for some kind of Zaros/Xau-Tak hybrid) ends up a better experience.
A couple of my friends and I knew this stuff a couple of hours in. 7 hours zero kills because of cowboys and yesmen who would rather play solo than to play thier role. Am so let down by this boss and cannot see the frustration of training and retraining havng to boot cowboys and retrain to having to retrain ppl who leave to get a few kills in an hour. Lucky for you if you can find 7 ppl who will actually work in a team.
Right, feel your pain. My experience today was training two different groups on the mechanics, helping get there first kills then being ignored when asked for an invite back into the group. Or being asked to sit on a wait list by a certain pvm group that claims to know what they are doing, only to watch them for an hour struggling and not wanting to accept the fact that they have to follow mechanics otherwise they'll fail. I think it comes down to the fact that some high pvmers have to face the fact that don't know jack about skilling and skillers need to learn some boss mechanics.
strongly dislike this boss because of the team stuff. i wanted to try it out and went into it and died really quickly like 3 times because i was so confused on what was going on and everyone was so mad…def can’t even try to learn it in public encounter
So you went into the boss blind, died because you had no idea what was going on, and now you don't like the boss... Like c'mon man. At least watch a guide first before going in. It's not a solo boss so if you fail, you fail the whole team. That's why everyone was so mad.
@@ambiguoususername2966 oh i’m sorry, watch a guide slightly after it comes out? yeah you’re right, how silly of me. not. how about toxic people stop taking a video game too seriously? sounds like a much better solution to me.
Curious question: Are Perfect Plus potions actually worth it? An entire Overload seems like a lot to spend on a +5% fishing success chance and 5% chance at double logs. Wouldn't it be better just to use the 2 individual juju potions?
If you can't maintain an overload over the course of 24 hours of gameplay you have bigger issues to worry about than maintaining an overload over the course of 24 hours of gameplay
They also made super pots, all be it expensive but you can make yourself as the resources are dirt cheap, hunter XP btw is 740k right now with 25% from yak
Still holding up pretty well! Makes sense, it's profitable, and as long as you know the basics it doesn't need a ton of coordination in public encounters. I don't usually like group content in this game, but Croesus does it the best imo.
Another boss that’s impossible to do if you don’t have a dedicated team that knows what they’re doing, and that you can easily communicate with over voice or something. Ah well, I’ll never get a kill on this then. Oh joy.
Wow who would have thought randoms cant do the brand new boss that just released a few hours ago. Oh my god it's not like everyone is trying to learn what to do or anything. Better go and complain on a video because that will definitely help out with people trying to learn it THE DAY IT RELEASED
@@FUalll I’m not complaining about people not knowing how to do it yet, I’m complaining about how this boss is designed. Comprehensive reading is hard it seems.. not everyone wants to play RS in groups. And then you’ll say “just do other bosses”, and that would be fine, if this boss wasn’t tied to some pretty nice and powerful new armour. Feels like group bossing is being forced on us.
@@jorisvandebeek6022 you are playing a MMORPG and complaining you have to do something in a group. It's a multiplayer game. It's not like for the past few weeks they broadcasted this was a group boss or anything
DO NOT DEPOSIT YOUR RESOURCES, you will only increase his enraging %, just put your stuff in the statue and go gather some more before going to the next one
God I absolutely HATE playing with pubbies! But at least they're getting better as the day goes on. Actually won three in a row with a pubbie group. They're just incredibly, terribly, painstakingly hard to find
See people complaining about the boss not being solo able. Well duh it's a group boss. Do it with your clan mates. Or if you prefer to play solo this content is obviously not for you or try and be the 1 that solo's it and proves everyone wrong.
@@ProtoxxGaming As time goes on, and they bother to learn the patterns like listed out in the guide here for the best optimal strategy with whatever friends they can muster together they'll figure out. Or they won't, and angrily scream and cry like 6 year olds for weeks until Jagex caves in to remove it as a Reaper Crew requirement.
Month old comment I know but, I don't think it's the fact of it not being solo that annoys people. I believe it's more of the reliance on the team of players, like if 1 or more people are bad then, you just lose the kill. Where it should be the loot scaling on how well you do, instead of punishing everyone else in the group.
Use "Croesus" friendschat to find a group
- Clicking the boss core when the particles are red WILL HEAL THE BOSS. if they are yellow/green you gain bonus damage! *these colours will be changed* twitter.com/JagexShrew/status/1456236103728570369?t=HDkO4RlVCiQAGG4AUDMwYg&s=19
- Crystal mask can used to negate a single hit each time used at Croesus.
- You can also spam surge or Surge bladed dive in a single tick to cross the field fast.
- The sana's fyrtorch or Orthen furnace core can be used instead of protean logs.
- Soups can be used to increase resource gathering efficiency (example: runescape.wiki/w/Fungal_algae_soup)
Merching crystal shit i see
Merching Soul runes I see
@@IdJustLikeToInterjectFrAMoment merching runes then
@@FuckedUpGenius ahahaha
@@IdJustLikeToInterjectFrAMoment tru
Due to limited time, I wasn’t able to also upload/share my thoughts on the boss. I would rather have a guide out to help you guys struggling with the boss than to share my opinion, which is something I can always do later. I hope to make a video sharing my thoughts on the boss tomorrow.
In short: The boss isn’t that exciting, but it seems to be a fun experience once you know what you’re doing and if you’ve got a team full of people (ON VOICECHAT), otherwise the boss fight is complete garbage. Avoid public instances at all costs. They should add some kind of mechanic to reduce the enrage because it’s way too punishing to do with randoms.
More like its impossible to do with randoms
Just in case you didn't hear after recording this, the poison working on the boss is a bug and will likely be patched out.
I don't know if it's my Iphone or mobile, but I tried this boss once and the app crashed. Will try the boss again later on my PC, so thanks for the guide, I would have been one of those clueless fools otherwise.
Can you help me find a group to start learning ne pool?
Thanks man this boss was really confusing.
For anyone wondering a day later, have been doing world 68 public encounters and have a close to 100 % win rate in less than 03:40. Everyone is having a good time with this boss and rewards are decent. Haven't seen a book of bik drop yet..
I liked the idea of this boss, but hate the reliance on a team.
I hope with a guide people will know what to do
@@jmtrad1906 Give it some time, and those who aren't addicted to instant gratification should be more rewarding to play with
Agreed
you can do a 3 man session. its not that complex to be honest.
@@HawkAnomaly yeah but it's been super hard bcuz we gotta teach everyone over and over again lol
Relying on a team absolutely ruined this, what were they thinking?? I would understand if there was a decent grouping mechanic for bosses but in the current state of the game, within a month it'll be hard to even find 8 people willing to do this.
Was waiting for this guide all morning , Thabks
In the last phase, with the opened core, clicking on red particles will heal it (so don't do that), clicking on the yellow/green ones gives it more damage.
I don’t see any particles
@@Haloking1212 put your graphics up
The healing is from the red effect on the core you can also get extra damage from clicking it when green or gold effects happen
Some tips to help avoid Croesus' attack:
Croesus has an attack animation for all it's attacks ( Croesus placing his arms on his abdomen/ ground) which gives you a much longer heads up to it's attack. You'll have to be playing RuneScape in high resolution with freedom camera zoomed out fully to be able to see it though.
Croesus also follows a fixed attack pattern so having a caller call out it's attacks (as Croesus does his animation) will help a lot.
Getting hit will reduce your contribution score.
Boss would be fine if u didn’t need so many people… or friends 100% of the time to kill this boss. Randoms are so bad hard to find a decent group. Or a group that can even kill the boss IMO.
Did you expect to jump in and it be easy when almost no one knows how to do it?
@@davidgibson2284 you mean like the glacor?
How do you even find randoms?
@@davidgibson2284 no but it shouldn’t be next to impossible ESPECIALLY because it was designed to be grouped. Jagex should be smart enough to know that 90% of players WANT to try new content but not all of them have friends or a clan to do groupable bosses. It should NOT be this tough/unforgiving with ransoms. The fight is simply overtuned
@@GwapRs got like 4 friends and 10 clan members who are never on lol, guess I won't be doing this boss.
Hell yeah thanks for the quick upload
As a heads up, you can tele to the cathedral with the pontifex ring, so need to run there from arch campus.
Portal at the hall of War is also tuned there atm.
He showed that way for people who don't have the quests done for the upgraded pont ring, Normal pont ring wont let you tele. Its just a ring that lets you go through the barriers for arch.
Particles
Red heals boss 2.5k
Green poisons boss 1k
White poisons boss 500
If you look at the timer the mechanics are at certain times so can be avoided easier. The orange blobs can be negated with the crystal mask ancient spell
what happens IF IM STUCK AND CANT MOVE
I think the thing I don’t like about this boss is the reliance on everyone’s support to get the kill. If one person slips up, it’ll almost always cost the kill unless you’re really good. I wish the kills were based more on individual participation like Wintertoldt
Yeah, it could scale a bit. Especially as people get kicked out and even more so in pubs.
*cries in League of Legends*
I loved so much the idea of a skilling boss but trying to kill it on a public instance is chaos, especially because the rage bar is so punishing with more players, only got 2 kills so far and it was pure luck
Pretty sure he heals if you bring unrotted supplies to his core, he uses it as food, so if you have extra rot it before running to middle. Also you don't need powerburst, if you Bladed dive and surge in the same second a few steps outside of the minefield, you will cross the entire thing!
i love that you made a guide so quick! it does look confusing yes but it is new, i like the idea! i just think 80% of the people complain are people that boss all the time... and tbh its not really aimed at them.. its aimed at skillers, maybe it shouldn't be it GWD3 but it still love to see other skilling bosses, maybe Solo, Duo or 4 Players max just so you don't have to rely
on as many people, But i love to see one using Agility, Thieving , Construction and Firemaking
Hey Protoxx, A couple of people I did some kills with think that the healing happens if you drink a super restore while the middle is open.
You are correct
Apparently a bug
Tried it a few times today. First on a populated world in a public instance and then with a team of friends/clan members. The difference in experience or enjoyment between the two is night and day. At this time, you really do need a decent team of four to eight players to succeed and have fun.
Now, that might change as more and more people get familiarized with the mechanics thanks to videos like this. We will have to wait and see :)
ALSO, it feels a lot like a mini-game lol.
Sadly I beleive this boss is a fail. Not only that the problem with a group on boss is that eventually it will become dead content due to not many wanting to do it.
@SumOfIt that’s way too harsh. The boss has a fantastic design. HOWEVER, it was a terrible idea to have such harsh mechanics hinging on the trust of randoms. THAT is the crime. Either improve matchmaking, or make the damage/stat drain less
@SumOfIt 100% agree they really need to be fired if they think this shit was worth hyping up for weeks.
wish the boss wasnt exclusive to high lvl skillers, they had an oppurtunity here to make a skilling boss for all walks of players which would have improved the new player perception. could have done some as simple as adding tiered fights for 40s skills, 60s and 80s with tiered loot and xp rates, seems like its not as accesible espicially if your lookin for a non pub team
6 hours to find a group to get 1 kill for Reaper Crew. Never going back. Almost quit today.
Imagine how dead it'll be when the hype dies down, lol. This would have been much more appropriate as an event every few months, not permanent.
@@CapeFearDragon won't be dead content if the drops are worth a lot
@@Yourpolice69 Just means the t90 equipment prices will be up a bit as the drops will be localized into the ones you know, are actually working in goddamn synch with each other.
Hopefully as time goes on some people will learn patience instead of being hardcore solo mode.
At the core the boss heals 2500 when you click on the red particles. If you click on the green or white particles it’ll deal an extra 1000 or 500 dmg.
I think they need to realise not everyone can find/get dedicated groups to do stuff like this. I wouldn't even complain if they made a soloable version with lower drop rates and less loot just so I can do the boss.
every mmo has content that requires groups to complete, it's not like it's a new concept or anything.
@@NoU-wc5ny You think RS is anything like WoW or Final Fantasy? Lol
@@NoU-wc5ny *Mom voice* If everyone jumped off a cliff, would you as well?
@@NoU-wc5ny If we're going to go off of the concept that every mmo has content that requires groups to complete why don't we use the same concept as other MMOs as well then we're there are tiers to each boss with LFR/Normal/Heroic rewards. And by that I mean timegating the release of Heroic rewards so players at the higher tier can't complete them unless they beat the lower tiered content.
Runescape isn't anything like other MMOs It's quite common for other MMOs to introduce ways of players being able to complete it whether they are solo or grouped. As shown by the WoW LFR system, the content is seriously pruned and nerfed but rewards are considerably less value.
@@aaronlawrence9181 who said WoW or Final Fantasy? I just said MMO. Group content isn't a bad thing unless you don't have friends
a fun round to do is trio statue and dps the core down. can get close to a sub 3 minute round that way.
Waited for this guy to try this lol not wanting to go in blindly and screw others up
In replace of protean logs you can use Orthen furnace core Off-hand from invention to burn through the sticky fungus
The boss is incredibly boring, and playing in public instances is an utter waste of time. Not making it solo able pretty much made it dead on arrival if not for the rewards.
It'll be good content when people learn it, Dead on arrival is an unfair assumption since it's not even a full day old yet, lol
Maybe give people time to learn the mechanics and make some friends.
I tried this boss with my clan (and some random players) and had so much fun, even though we didn't get a kill (we were going in pretty much blind). I don't think this boss is boring at all, and I like that it's not (yet?) soloable. RuneScape is an MMORPG after all, there's way too much solo content in this game and a big lack of socialization compared to other popular games within the genre.
Honestly, people need to learn to have fun again. I laughed my ass off when I got stuck inside Croesus, not knowing about this bug yet, instead of rant how everything is ruined etc. People focus way too much on the winning aspect of the game instead of on the fun aspect.
@@FuckedUpGenius Hard to have fun on something you just don’t find fun. Also, group content has been pretty mediocre in RuneScape.
hes right it is boring af and shit. Mind you the other fronts being arch glacor and kerapac have been really good
dunno if people said so in other comments but, wait for 2:20 and the middle spawned mushrooms they give huge bonus contribution points and thus extra big loot (mostly for public lobbies spread the word)
Damn, this looks like a whole quest every instance....
Oh 8man - was hoping for a 4man guide so i dont have to explain 4man to every person when i host - will you do a guide on 4man and 3man?
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@@ProtoxxGaming Thank you for taking the time to write such a detailed response you're the best!
Are those lvl 80 stats a requirement? Or can you do it whenever?
Cinderbanes are extremely redunant. Per player they only do around 3k damage to the boss, which is minimal going by both the total health of the boss, as well as the rate of damage Croesus takes when the team is chewing down the core node. You don't even shave half a second off a kill using cinderbanes.
On top of that, you'd generally just want the full Skilling + Construction set bonus, rather than waste a slot on cinderbanes.
Also, you ALWAYS need 2x 15 of each resource for the statues, and ALWAYS just need 10 rotten fungi to rot a corpse. This isn't changed in group sizes.
3:10 - Lighting a fire was a wrong interpretation of 'using logs'. Lighting a fire actually does nothing, you only need to click on the sticky fungi below you once, which already consumes the logs.
Hey i would like to learn croesus, but reading all these comments about public teams being chaos i don’t wanna add to that😜 I’d like it if you could teach me, reach out! I spreak Dutch as well.
Edit: my in-game name is Lacriimaa, i’ll keep my pm’s open
I honestly really like this boss, but then again, we have a solid group of PvM-excited people in our clan so finding a good team was never a problem.
Everyone complaining that they couldn't figure this boss out and I'm thinking let me head over to Protoxx because I know he has a guide.
;) got ya covered
@@ProtoxxGaming I was watching an Init Yeah video from two months ago and In the video he was doing some Gwd bosses and he said I can't break down each boss mechanic because It would take so long so what I suggest you do Is go on Yt and search and I'm sure someone will have a guide up. Hell Protoxx probably has one on every boss because that guy never seems to miss one.😂😂😂😂
Being in sync is so important for this encounter. I tried explaining to my clanmates that if you pray at the statues at the same time, it will just quadruple the amount of time we can attack Croesus. We still got a few kills, though. The most crucial aspect of this strategy is understanding that the skilling area you start at it with a partner, you need to gather 15+ resources each, deplete the node entirely, then continue on to the next two COUNTERCLOCKWISE statues, which will require the resources you just gathered from your starting location. If everyone does this, all the statues will have the required resources to be repaired and prayed at within the first couple of minutes or so. Don't focus on what everyone else is doing, because thinking of this individually, and your own individual movement, will make this so much easier. If everyone is on the same page with what they need to do, this boss is cake.
Did zygomite food just get nerfed??
I mean i heard u can use fungus for food.... And it buys for like 100gp ea
Have public instances improved or am I better off looking for a team?
I'd like to think that it's been enough time for the general player base to be able to carry noobs, unless new players vastly outweigh the experienced players.
I know that in oldschool skill bosses, the only real penalty for clueless teammates is usually that they don't get any rewards, they don't always drag the whole team down as long as the majority know what they're doing.
Is this boss like that, or can just one moron screw it up for everyone? Or is the majority of public instances still plagued with a constant flow of newcomers, making carrying impossible?
Thanks you so much! Such an ez guide , i was stuggling to know what to do lol
I love that this boss has taught me that there are still so many adults in this world that can't or won't follow a guide or an instruction. Hence why there's so much failed encounters, people just don't want to co operate with other people.
It's outright sad there's far too many arrogant and complacent people addicted to instant gratification out there who do not have any patience for puzzle solving and group work. Kinda like in SAO Abridged where the main villain in part of his rant lambasts people adamantly refusing to work together.
@@RandoGrunt Hundred percent agree. In fact, decided not to let it get me down and got together a group of random 6-7 people and we did just fine. not perfect but we got 5/6 kills.
@@Thebt7 Very and hope ya'll added each other to your friends list incase the urge for you all rises to do it again. I am hopeful over time this does get people to be a bit more social with their mates or stop playing with public chat: off all the time. Reminds me of previous group bosses like ROT6 and Vorago that do require some teamwork and mini-games like Barbarian Assault.
This boss is so much fun for new players; Croesus is one of my favorites for both 4players and Public.
Did it first time yesterday, now 40 fights later I'm fuming about "old" players praying when only 1 statue is done...
I just feel like this boss doesn’t fit in with the whole elder godwars dungeon they should have made 4 combat bosses, a fifth new group boss, Similar to aod for the dungeon boss, and then for rs3s first ever skilling boss, took the time to fix the matchmaking system we have currently, and then release this. How difficult is it to make a matchmaking system for these guys and be voice connected. Seems like every other game manages to make them just fine. (And cmon you know these lobbies would be absolutely hilarious) @Jagex, give us something fun!!!!
i agree i dont think im going to even do this boss it doesnt look enjoyable at all it looks more like a chore. Im going to stick to the arch glacor for now
I thought the cinderbanes and weapon poison was a bug that was fixed?
It's using cinderbanes without weapon poison that's bugged
Poorly done skilling boss unfortunately. Imagine suggesting a group of 8 but one person not knowing what they're doing in a public lobby can ruin the kill for everyone. Osrs did skilling bosses better and that dissapoints me greatly
You the Best thing to happen to Runescape, thanks for the guide
Thanks for the compliment
If you dont one cycle the boss do you have to get the resources on the statues all over again or is that a one time thing?
If you don’t kill it within the time provided by the four statues, you lose
If you do one statue at a time though?
There was a key term you used in this video "it's simple as long as you have a coordinated team of people". That right there is the problem with this boss! Its easy for people to say , "get some friends or a clan" but it's not that simple. This boss is complicated and if you make a mistake it's over. Other group bosses like AOD or yakamaru can still be killed even if someone messes up. The public instances are HORRIFIC. Wasted nearly 3 hours... They need to set specific amounts for encounters (such as public instances with a max group size of 8)
4+ people? Yeah. Guess I'm not doing it.
Just a shame it's not possible in public yet
PSA: If you're 8-manning this boss, you don't actually need to do the rotting. You still need to deplete the creatures for the extra damage, but if you're going quickly enough, you'll get the boss down before any of the creatures regenerate fully without having done the rotting.
If you're practicing, though, the rotting is still necessary.
The fact I can't solo this and need to have a group is the reason I lost interest after 1 try for this boss. Sad, since I was looking forward to this since I'm not a boss killer, but a skiller. Thought this would be great for me. But I rather do my stuff on my own. So back to skilling and catching up with my quests then.
At least this has made me good profit from selling super restores. That looks like the only value I'll gain from this sad update.
You can use escape for smoke bombs if you don't have bladed dive
This is probably my favorite boss, group play, easy to learn, and safe from dying for the most part, and best of all, awesome drops!
ammount of recources needed is NOT based on group size. its 15 of each 2 types needed per statue. so 30 total per statue. this is the same solo and with 10 player teams.
also the process bar isn't rly enrage. its just % til u lose the kill
True. I forgot to mention that!
Offhands for any use?
Could use the mobile relic then.
Any other relic?
I believe they said the woodcutting one would be useful.
Making solo or duo a viable option will actually make players return to this boss. Everyone I know did a couple kills and said screw this nonsense haha.
I couldnt tell by the video but does praying at the statues give prayer xp? I hope not
They made Kerapac and Glacor boss soloable as a option, but not this boss? That is outright lame! They should have a solo able option for this boss.
you can solo it.... its hard but you can
They probably do make some changes in the future, if they get more than 1000 complaints.
Ahh yes a boss that is nearly impossible to do unless you can coordinate a time with 4-7 friends to actually do it.. RIP Final Boss
It is actually really easy if all the teammates know what they are doing.
@@Alar.Lillevali Right. the hard part is finding 4-7 people 6 months from now to do it.
@@Anthony-zh2cp Fax
@@Anthony-zh2cp imagine thinking sus would be dead content
orthen furnace core also functions as a way to burn the sticky fungus,
are overloads not helpfuil to stop stat draining?
I thought so too but overloads are only for combat stats.
@@ericweinzettle5010 ah dam yer is there any seren spell that's hells been on os for past few years but still enjoy rs3 now and again anything post mining and smiting rework not to sure on)
Boss is easy, but public is cancer. If you don't have friends or clan that understand the boss it's not fun.
Unfortunately I also found out that some groups on discord are also cancer. Even if you point out one or two mechanics your called an elitist, by elitist claiming to have made bills from the boss already who are struggling to get kills. This is RS.
I thought poisoning the boss is unintended. Is it safe to do this with poison without any game breaking reports?
I can guarantee no one will be banned for doing that.
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Why do people keep saying this boss is "very easy" and "very simple"? Like obviously every boss is simple enough to understand with a bit of effort, but this is definitely more complicated than the first two gwd3 bosses
you say you need level 80+ in those skills, but everyone tells me you need level 88? is this true or not. I guess I should just try but im in the 70s for most of those skillls atm.
88 is for the skilling plots outside. Not related to the boss encounter.
Wish it was possible to solo
Having to rely on a team is a sure-fire way to ruin a bossing experience
Honestly, this is the first real disappointment with Elder God Wars Dungeon
Kerapac is punishing as all hell, but if you know what you're doing and have a few mil to drop on ability upgrades (double surge has saved my ass more times than I can count) it's a really fun boss.
Arch-Glacor is a great gateway boss that the game has always needed. Toggling mechanics? Whoever came up with that deserves a promotion.
Croesus is just kinda...bad. A poorly-made boss with mechanics that are too punishing, tedious, and not at all intuitive. And being un-solo-able just drags it down even further.
I hope Ful's boss (and whatever the secret superboss ends up being -- fingers crossed for some kind of Zaros/Xau-Tak hybrid) ends up a better experience.
Fuls boss will just be fight caves 2.0 imo at the rate of gwd3. its been a real disappointment considering the hype around this for years
that soundtrack in background such nostalgia...
It's actually a relatively new rs soundtrack called "Graveyard" it sounds similar to some nostalgic songs from a videogame I forgot tho
@@ProtoxxGaming yea it seems I though that track is something else.. sounds like some sort dejavu track, you think you heard it before ;o
A couple of my friends and I knew this stuff a couple of hours in. 7 hours zero kills because of cowboys and yesmen who would rather play solo than to play thier role. Am so let down by this boss and cannot see the frustration of training and retraining havng to boot cowboys and retrain to having to retrain ppl who leave to get a few kills in an hour. Lucky for you if you can find 7 ppl who will actually work in a team.
Right, feel your pain. My experience today was training two different groups on the mechanics, helping get there first kills then being ignored when asked for an invite back into the group. Or being asked to sit on a wait list by a certain pvm group that claims to know what they are doing, only to watch them for an hour struggling and not wanting to accept the fact that they have to follow mechanics otherwise they'll fail. I think it comes down to the fact that some high pvmers have to face the fact that don't know jack about skilling and skillers need to learn some boss mechanics.
my clan is gonna 4 man and none of us have done this before. were all watching the guide and giving it a shot. RIP in advance. -kreez
I saw a post on reddit saying it is super restore potion at the boss that heals it. Have not tried myself
So who gets what loot and how is that shared if one gets crypt?
tried this with 5 friends, any idea why we only do 200 damage per hit on the boss when all the statues are active?
All the boss nodes need to be depleted and rotted with 10 rot to deal more damage
@@markwilson4540 thanks!
strongly dislike this boss because of the team stuff. i wanted to try it out and went into it and died really quickly like 3 times because i was so confused on what was going on and everyone was so mad…def can’t even try to learn it in public encounter
So you went into the boss blind, died because you had no idea what was going on, and now you don't like the boss... Like c'mon man. At least watch a guide first before going in. It's not a solo boss so if you fail, you fail the whole team. That's why everyone was so mad.
@@ambiguoususername2966 oh i’m sorry, watch a guide slightly after it comes out? yeah you’re right, how silly of me. not. how about toxic people stop taking a video game too seriously? sounds like a much better solution to me.
Man this would be an amazing use for the *BLESSED FLASK* had some additional uses like super restores.
Yeah, honestly its pretty retarded you are only allowed to fill it with extreme prayer potions
Curious question: Are Perfect Plus potions actually worth it? An entire Overload seems like a lot to spend on a +5% fishing success chance and 5% chance at double logs. Wouldn't it be better just to use the 2 individual juju potions?
Single dose of perfect plus lasts 4 hours
If you can't maintain an overload over the course of 24 hours of gameplay you have bigger issues to worry about than maintaining an overload over the course of 24 hours of gameplay
@@mikeondrugs Ah, didn't know that. Thant's fair then. I thought it was 1 hour like the individual pots.
Absolutely not, perfect plus stays active for 4 hours and from 4 sips overload you get a (6) pot! :)
They also made super pots, all be it expensive but you can make yourself as the resources are dirt cheap, hunter XP btw is 740k right now with 25% from yak
imagine forcing group content without having a good matchmaking system or in game voice chat. dead content in 2 weeks
Lol, if it makes it that long.
Dead content in 2 days tbh
Imagine thinking that this would be a dead content
Still holding up pretty well! Makes sense, it's profitable, and as long as you know the basics it doesn't need a ton of coordination in public encounters.
I don't usually like group content in this game, but Croesus does it the best imo.
It isn't dead content at all. Everyone in this thread needs to eat their words rn lmao
Not very difficult boss with right group and strategy. Got into 2 random groups and with both fastest kills were under 5mins.
im dealing 900damage in the middle and not 1900 like u in the vid what i am doing wrong ?
You haven't killed the fungus on the bosses or you have but it already came back.
Thanks now I wont be looking like a chicken with it's head cut off next time I go try this boss out
That was basically me during release hour hahaha
Helloo, love your vids , greetings from switzerland
Northern neighbour eh!
Are regular restores good enough?
nope, need to be super restores
Since its so team dependant it should have been more with wintertodt imo...
Thank god this is here
Another boss that’s impossible to do if you don’t have a dedicated team that knows what they’re doing, and that you can easily communicate with over voice or something. Ah well, I’ll never get a kill on this then. Oh joy.
There's better solo bosses.
@@davidgibson2284 For pve not for skilling, smooth brains.
Wow who would have thought randoms cant do the brand new boss that just released a few hours ago. Oh my god it's not like everyone is trying to learn what to do or anything. Better go and complain on a video because that will definitely help out with people trying to learn it THE DAY IT RELEASED
@@FUalll I’m not complaining about people not knowing how to do it yet, I’m complaining about how this boss is designed. Comprehensive reading is hard it seems.. not everyone wants to play RS in groups. And then you’ll say “just do other bosses”, and that would be fine, if this boss wasn’t tied to some pretty nice and powerful new armour. Feels like group bossing is being forced on us.
@@jorisvandebeek6022 you are playing a MMORPG and complaining you have to do something in a group. It's a multiplayer game. It's not like for the past few weeks they broadcasted this was a group boss or anything
Finally a real guide
real guide? he literally tells you to use resourceful aura which is quite possibly the worse aura to use as it makes it WORSE
imagine finding a group....
cinderbane and wp was a big and has been fixed
DO NOT DEPOSIT YOUR RESOURCES, you will only increase his enraging %, just put your stuff in the statue and go gather some more before going to the next one
I believe cinders was a bug btw... youtube thinks ima bot so cant post urls, but mod miva on reddit
God I absolutely HATE playing with pubbies! But at least they're getting better as the day goes on. Actually won three in a row with a pubbie group. They're just incredibly, terribly, painstakingly hard to find
Pls update this guide , as a 4 man is a completely different boss
I will eventually but I kinda hate croesus
See people complaining about the boss not being solo able. Well duh it's a group boss. Do it with your clan mates. Or if you prefer to play solo this content is obviously not for you or try and be the 1 that solo's it and proves everyone wrong.
Like if they want to go back to Soloing, the Arch Glacor is right F*cking there.
@@RandoGrunt They do need a single kill for reaper crew though
@@ProtoxxGaming As time goes on, and they bother to learn the patterns like listed out in the guide here for the best optimal strategy with whatever friends they can muster together they'll figure out. Or they won't, and angrily scream and cry like 6 year olds for weeks until Jagex caves in to remove it as a Reaper Crew requirement.
Month old comment I know but, I don't think it's the fact of it not being solo that annoys people. I believe it's more of the reliance on the team of players, like if 1 or more people are bad then, you just lose the kill. Where it should be the loot scaling on how well you do, instead of punishing everyone else in the group.
Spam Surge instead of bladed dive the shrooms as wont pause and drain stats
Been doing it all day with same group of 8 best we got was boss half health. No kc yet
Reminds me of a Destiny 2 style raid boss.
Would be good if you slowed it down abit talking 100mph.
Gp/hr estimates?
Solo guide next ye?
Ehhhh if it isn't too bad, yes!